Various environmental associations have repeatedly denounced that Albufera in his opinion is not yet It has a favorable ecological state and for which a strategy in the form of a future conservation plan has not even been defined.
That is why these organizations have conditioned their participation in a new candidacy process of the Albufera as Biosphere reserve for UNESCO as long as a good ecological state of the lake is not appreciated.
In this sense, they claim that to achieve an improvement in the quality of the albufera, “water volumes and guarantee a regime of ecological flows in the lake and the humid areawhich are not guaranteed, ”they add.
The support of environmentalists to the Albufera Biosphere Reserve in the air until its good condition is guaranteed
Various environmental organizations have conditioned their participation in a new candidacy process of The Albufera As a biosphere reserve for UNESCO to the good ecological state of the lake.
These entities intend to respond to the proposals and observations that already manifested in February in the previous process, which did not reach the end, and in which they showed their skepticism before the figure, given that the Albufera is still far from achieving a favorable ecological state and the conservation conditions have not even been defined.
That’s why, They consider that all the efforts and resources of the public administrations involved must go to achieve this goalas indicated in a statement.
They claim to resolve “as soon as possible and with all guarantees and maximum efficiency” the pending processing of the Natural Resources Management Plan (PORN), the Plan Rector d’ús I managed, and the management standards of the Natura 2000 Network.
The organizations indicate that to achieve an improvement in the quality of the albufera, water volumes must be increased and guarantee an ecological flow regime in the lake and the wet area, which “are not guaranteed,” they add. They also highlight the environmental, landscape, territorial and sociocultural values of the peri -urban garden of Valencia and La Marjal, for being interrelated spaces that share and configure those values.
“The biosphere reserve statement will only make sense when these objectives are achieved,” they say. EFE / ECOTICIAS.com