He Mar Menor is a salty coastal lagoon with little communication with the Mediterranean Sea that despite its high environmental value, it suffers important alterations due to the great concentration and intensification of human activities in its aspect.
All this has caused drastic changes in its ecological state, severely affecting its operation Already its delicious biodiversity, especially in adverse climatic situations.
Given this situation, an urgent and effective response was necessary, and, therefore, The miteco has designed the priority actions framework to recover the Mar Menor (MAPMM) with a temporary execution horizon of 2026.
Mar Menor: Ecosystem Restoration Initiative
About 80 people have participated during this week in free guided tours, organized by the technical office of the Mar Menor, under the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco), to locations where some of the Priority actions framework projects to recover Mar Menor (MAPMM), recognized by the UN as an emblematic initiative of environmental restoration.
Thanks to this initiative, framed in the celebration of World Environment Daycitizens have been able to know, by the hand of the technicians who direct these actions, the status of the projects in guided visits made on June 10 and 12.
Attendees knew works already in execution, such as the environmental remediation of the Sierra Minera de Cartagena and the union or environmental recovery of several channels of the aspect, and Other actions whose execution will begin soonsuch as the green belt and the withdrawal of the facilities of Puerto Mayor and the environmental recovery of La Caleta del Estacio, in the sleeve.
Mitecus technicians, attached to the General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea, the Segura Hydrographic Confederation and the General Directorate of Biodiversity, Forests and Desertification, explained in situ the characteristics of these projects and their functionality for The recovery and restoration of the Mar Menor Vertiente basin.
The MAPMM intends to act on the origin of the problems that affect the lagoon and its aspect, with nature -based solutionswhen possible, and with the advice of the best available scientific knowledge.
The MAPMM has been recognized by the United Nations as an emblematic initiative of restoration of ecosystems by going to an ecosystem of high ecological, social and cultural valueas well as the integral response from the Government of Spain and the articulation of a governance model. ECOticias.com