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The total area amounts to about 18,000 football fields and is the result of a shared management model, a pioneer in Spain.

Mayor Park House visit to learn about The Porches afforestation work, hiking and wildlife recovery.

It is one of the areas of greatest concentration of world's owls, bobcats, eagles and other species.

The Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, this morning visited the Parque Los Porches, located in the Sierra de Altaona to know the tasks of afforestation, recovery of wildlife, hiking trails and other educational activities.

The visit was also attended by the Councillor for the Environment, Adela Martinez-cache.

Murcia City Council has introduced new forest parks result of the development of urban plans of the municipality.

This incorporation is regulated in the PGMO, and additional assignments in the residential resort development of green areas mandatory assignment in which at least 25% of the scope should be allocated to Environmental Improvement Areas.

So with these transfers, the municipal area of forest parks has been significantly increased its size, from 1,000 hectares of existing municipal property in 2001 to 2,594 acres today, thanks to this procedure, hoping that in the future, once developed all development plans currently in process, reaching an area of 6,368 hectares, a 7% relative to the surface of the entire municipality.

Most of the Forest Park from disposals and Environmental Improvement Areas are embedded within protected areas as part of the Natura 2000 network classified as SCI (Site of Community Interest Carrascoy - El Valle) or SPA (Area Special Protection for Birds) and are included in the Regional Park Carrascoy - El Valle.

Land stewardship

Part of an area that houses valuable environmental values among which we can mention the largest number of breeding pairs of Eagle Owl worldwide, a very high density of wild cat, a very significant presence of Bonelli's eagle, a bird extición danger or the existence of relict vegetation of what a holm of Majal Blanco.

Murcia City Council works to preserve the environmental values of Forest Park, combining the use and enjoyment of Murcia and Murcia.

This will perform various actions to enhance the recreational, educational and scientific.

To manage these areas and facilitate the uses to which the City Council wants to allocate them, working with municipal associations by Land Stewardship model, model innovator and pioneer in Spain, which is implemented through arrangements with municipal associations, and through which the City authorizes the appropriate maintenance and use agricultural and forestry farms in exchange for conservation activities, educational or scientific.

To date, the City of Murcia has signed several partnership agreements with ADESGA (Neighborhood Association for Sustainable Development Garruchal) and Columbares Association for the development of various jobs and projects in several Forest Parks in different districts such as: The Porches in Canadas de San Pedro, Los Ginovinos in Gea y Truyols, Los Santiagos or the Place of The Lucas, Bath & Beggar.

There have been numerous actions aimed at maintaining and improving the Forest Park citizens, such as reforestation work, maintenance and use of dry lands, survey and monitor wildlife (wild cat and owl), rehabilitation of ethnography and protection elements conditioning wildlife ponds as amphibian and bird refuges, hiking trails and environmental education activities for schools, associations and the general public.

These provisions will ensure the enhancement of these municipal areas more compatible with the use and enjoyment of Murcia.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia