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The Development Ministry has selected the project "Protection and enhancement of local biodiversity through urban planning" to enter the contest

Practice Group of the Spanish Habitat Committee under the Ministry of Development, has selected a project of the Department of Environment to attend the International Award for Best Practices United Nations, which is biennial, which this year celebrates its ninth edition.

The project, entitled "Protection and enhancement of local biodiversity through urban planning" will automatically be included in the IX Spanish Catalogue of Good Practice to be published by the Ministry, having selected result in this first phase.

The Best Practices Competition aims to strengthen the awareness of society and policies aimed at improving the living conditions of citizens

Now we have to present the project at the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements before March 30 so that next July will announce the winners.

With the initiative "Protection and enhancement of local biodiversity through urban planning" the City seeks to achieve several objectives:

- Incorporate local heritage areas listed in the spaces of the Natura 2000 network in the municipality, facilitating governance.

- Promoting Biodiversity.

- Maintain and strengthen a forest landscape and farming land.

- Encourage public use and show their environmental values.

- Involving people in the area, through agreements with NGOs in the territory

- Collaborate with other authorities in the management of sites of Natura 2000.

- Improve the living conditions of the inhabitants of the municipality, and by extension the entire Community.

The areas of environmental improvement, have led to the gradual increase in the municipal forest estate: in 2001 there were 1,213.75 acres of municipal property, and in 2011 it has 3,011.20 hectares, which will be added soon 3844.76 currently in process .

Much of the land ceded part of SCI or SPA areas of the municipality, earning as public space, areas with protection status.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia