Various environmental organizations, through a coordinated action that took place this Saturday, claimed the need (urgent in his opinion) to expand the natural space of the Daimiel National Park, in the province of Ciudad Real.
More specifically, this extension should unite the current perimeter of the natural park with which it is «its main and primal source, such as the Guadiana eyes«, They explain.
That is, “the upstream flooding zone to the Villarrubia de los Eye treatment plant, including the Ojuelos de Villarrubia, and the flood area downstream to the Pellejero stream and the Los Praos area in Carrión de Calatrava” specified these environmental defense associations.
For an extension of the Daimiel Tables National Park, in Ciudad Real
Various environmental associations claimed this Saturday, through a hiking route in which about a hundred people have participated, The “urgent need” to expand the National Park of Las Tablas de Daimiel, in the province of Ciudad Real.
In this sense, they point out that “the necessary ecological and functional continuity of the ecosystem makes it essential that the expansion of the National Park is that which unites its current perimeter with its main and primal sourcea, the eyes of the Guadiana ». That is, the upstream flooding zone to the Villarrubia de los Eye treatment plant, including the Ojuelos de Villarrubia, and the flood area downstream to the Pellejero stream and the Los Praos area in Carrión de Calatrava.
These associations also asked Protect upstream from the park The flood plain between Villarrubia de los Eyes and the Gigüela and Záncara and Down Allows Board, the flood plain from Calatrava La Vieja to the Board with the Jabalón River. Precisely, the route held this Saturday, nine kilometers, toured an area that these associations consider that it should be part of the National Park
In all these spaces, the participants had the explanations of Rafael Gosálvez, professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha; Enrique Luengo, retired weather observer of the State Meteorology Agency in Ciudad Real; Alberto Celis, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Seville; and Carmen Sánchez, guide of the Daimiel National Park.
This geographer team detailed the natural, cultural and patrimonial values that support that the Guadiana River Throughout the extension of the Municipality of Carrión de Calatrava and the Prajo de los Praos and Valdecañas, it is designated as an extension of the Daimiel National Park and highlighted above all the bronze rings of Malvecinos and Carrión and the Muslim city of Calatrava.
These organizations have been claiming For more than ten years the need to expand this National Park, which would mean to take it to 20,000 hectares from the current 3,000thus complying with the current National Parks Law of Spain, which indicates that among the requirements for a national park, it must have at least 20,000 hectares of continuous surface, not fragmented and without strangulation.
In the coming weeks, new routes will be carried out in surrounding municipalities, with the intention of claiming the need for this extension, which they have considered “Today more necessary than ever before highly shocking projects that are developed in the upper basin of the Guadiana River and that will affect the rivers, wetlands and aquifers of this territory”. EFE / ECOticias.com