The Alhama de Murcia City Council and the Association for the Custody of the Territory (ACUDE) have held a meeting to study and plan the actions of the last quarter of the year in the municipality's public estates, located in the protected area of ??Los Saladares del Guadalentín. The meeting was attended by the Councilor for Environmental Administrative Management, Antonio García, the Councilor for the Environment, Antonio Espinosa, and the Vice President and Secretary of ACUDE, Juan Luis Castanedo.
For her part, the mayor, Mariola Guevara, has also been interested in the progress of the agreement signed between the Alhameño Council and this association for the development of actions for the custody of the territory in the municipal farms of La Alcanara, Quebrada Beatriz and Umbría de Carrascoy . In the last quarter of 2020, various initiatives will be carried out, among which stand out the planting for wildlife with rainfed cereals, or the planting of tarays (Tamarix boveana), a rare Ibero-African shrub or small tree that in the Region of Murcia It is distributed in a specific way in the southern half, from Águilas to the Mar Menor, penetrating inland into natural spaces such as Rambla Salada or Saladares del Guadalentín; Within the framework of the agreement, dissemination and signaling actions will also be carried out.The municipal estates of Alhama de Murcia are protected by various legal figures for their great landscape and natural values ??for their high biodiversity and the species of flora and fauna that inhabit them.
"For both the City Council and ACUDE it is very important that the residents of the municipality know the existence of public farms and their environmental values," Castanedo highlights.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia