The Department of Environment maintains its agreement with Adesga to protect Altaona saws and Escalona.
The plan called 'Actions for the conservation and enhancement of biodiversity by maintaining municipal properties in the City Council special bird protection Monte Valley Altaona saws and Escalona.
Where does the owl ', which was launched last year, and will continue to be carried out by the Board of Governors today approved its continuation.
This will get about 30,000 euros to be financed by the FEMP, since this project was the winner of the Contest III projects for increasing biodiversity.
This project involves two municipal properties, provided the model of land stewardship: the Los Porches and Los Ginovinos.
The estate of The Porches measures 22.5 hectares while the farm The Ginovinos, in the heart of the Sierra de Altaona, occupies an area of ​​110 hectares, of which 102 are forest and 8 are agricultural.
The action SPA maintains the highest density of owls known world with about 65 couples surveyed stable and reproductive success of about 90 chickens in spring 2009.
This property sits in an area threatened by, among others, the abandonment of traditional rainfed farming and lack of awareness about values, figures and conservation reasons.
This project aims at conservation of the SPA agroforestry ecosystems where farms are acting tasks by maintaining and disseminating AE values ​​of the same with a program of education, training and environmental disclosure for schoolchildren, farmers, users and the general population of the municipality.
The project seeks different objectives set out in the partnership agreement:
- Enhancing biodiversity of farms in both forest and agricultural areas.
- Assist the knowledge of the environment by the citizenship of the natural values ​​of the protected area.
- Promote an awareness of the younger half with environmental education activities.
- Fire prevention
- Improve conditions of cultivating rainfed agriculture (almond, carob and olive trees) and implanted and introduction of new cultivars of upland.
- Encourage the existence of wildlife species together this medium.
- Encourage local farmers to agroforestry good.
- Maintenance of the landscape.
- Properly handle existing water birth, so conducive to different types of species of wildlife habitat and create conditions conducive to the spread of amphibians.
- Generate work with local people to develop agricultural multitasking.
The activities to be performed for each of the farms are:
-FARM MAINTENANCE WORK ON THE PORCHES
A) Irrigation at plant indigenous reforested
B) Irrigation walk rainfed cultivation recently implemented
B1) Replacement of yore potential rainfed cultivation of newly planted
C) Training Pruning rainfed cultivation recently implemented
D) pruning almond cultivar
E) Elimination of annual pruning
F) Maintaining agricultural boards without through dense vegetation of grasses clearings to facilitate access to the tillage
G) agricultural Tillage
H) Seeding annual cereal
I) Trajillado general road
J) Keep the layout of the existing two lanes on the farm
K) Maintenance of wooden signs for the farm information
L) Protecting New seedlings of olive and carob trees are planted on the farm
MAINTENANCE-THE FARM GINOVINOS
A) Trajillado the entire main access road and internal road of the farm
B) tillage farming area
C) Seeding annual cereal
D) Pruning olive
E) carob plantation
F) Cleaning and maintenance of the hydraulic infrastructure of the farm
G) Maintenance of amphibians made ponds on the farm
H) Irrigation Maintenance for restocking on
I) Reforestation in specific places of the farm
J) Cleaning various existing materials on the farm.
K) Protection mesh hutch cultivar of olive trees.
Of the new feet carob and small stocking to make.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia