Portal de Cieza

www.portaldecieza.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

Ecologists in Action has denounced the restoration laundry Source Eye include the planting of hundreds of feet of "cat 's claw" (Carpobrotus sp) contravening the law for being invasive alien species

Ecologists in Action has complained to the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and the Municipality of Cieza, the use of the so-called "cat's claw", an invasive alien species in restoration work laundry Source of the Eye in the municipality of Cieza.

The complaint occurs to be the "cat's claw" of an exotic plant of South African origin, contained for years in the Spanish catalog Invasive Alien Species

[1]

, Planting and management of the two species in our territory, and Carpobrotus edulis Carpobrotus acinaciformis be prohibited because of its high capacity for colonization of the medium.

And, the environmental organization recalls that precisely one of the greatest threats to the biodiversity of our natural ecosystems is input, both plant and animal invasive alien species, and that the best way to combat its harmful effects is to prevent its spread.

While the ban on planting is exhaustive to all mainland, in this case the added fact that the planting is done a few 200m of Mount Public # 139 called "Sierra de Ascoy and Lomas del Cementerio" is given, which increases the chances of this invasive plant ends up in the environment, and also reproduces very well vegetatively by cuttings.

The aptness of vegetatively propagated require retreating, transport and disposal exercise extreme precautions applying appropriate protocols.

One of the aspects that most concerns the organization is that even though they have moved the issue to the direction of the works and the municipal technician responsible, the administration has ignored the warnings of the organization, so the organization It is obliged to make a formal complaint.

Therefore, Ecologists in Action, has also called explicitly to the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment to conduct an information campaign aimed at municipalities and other public officials in carrying out any type of work or management of plant and / or animals, to know and respect the Royal Decree 630/2013, of 2 August, approving the Spanish catalog of invasive alien species regulated

[2]

, Thus avoiding that such acts are not repeated in the future.

Finally, the organization calls on the government to take advantage of the vast and rich plant heritage of our territory, and choose to use native species in any work or landscaping promoted by the administration.

Source: Ecologistas en Acción