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The state meeting of the Working Group of the White-headed Duck, Marbled Teal and Coot Moruna three protected waterfowl and endangered species, and coordinated by the Ministry of Environment, held in Molina de Segura on Thursday 1 December at 10.00, The Garden Center (on Calle Joaquin Abellan, No. 8).
The meeting was held in the framework of the Conservation NAT/ES/000516 LIFE09 White-headed Duck in the Region of Murcia, which develops the Directorate General Environment of the Ministry of the Presidency, in collaboration with the municipalities of Molina de Segura, Alhama de Murcia and Mazarron, project partners, with representatives from throughout the Spanish state.
The meeting was also attended by the Director General of Environment of the Region of Murcia, María Teresa Navarro Caballero, and the Councillor for the Environment, Worship Molina Lopez.
This is a technical working group is now integrated into the State Committee for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, and is coordinated by the Directorate General for the Environment and Forestry Policy of the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, involving representatives of the autonomous communities of Spain and the ministry itself, and a panel of experts, including those who are specialists in Doñana Biological Station and from different Spanish universities.
The working group meets regularly to exchange information and promote actions that contribute in a coordinated manner to conservation in Spain of the White-headed Duck, Marbled Teal and Coot Moruna, which are 3 ducks classified Endangered in Spain and in the world according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is the UN agency dedicated to the conservation of nature.
Among the contents of the agenda of the meeting is:
Assess the status of the population of White-headed Duck, Marbled Teal and Coot Moruna in the different autonomous communities and assess their conservation problems.
Updating of national conservation strategies White-headed Duck and Coot Moruna and proposed development of the national strategy for Marbled Teal.
Information content of the draft Conservation LIFE09/NAT/ES/000516 White-headed Duck in the Region of Murcia is currently underway in the Region of Murcia.
The Region of Murcia hosts between 150 and 200 specimens of white-headed duck, which represents between 10 and 15% of the population of the western Mediterranean, or, which is the same, between 2 and 3% of world population This little ducks.
This species breeds in three wetlands that have been selected to develop the LIFE Project: Floating Campotéjar (Molina de Segura), consisting of 5 lakes of a former sewage treatment plant of wastewater lagoons, now operating as ponds that store agricultural water, Lake of the mulberry (Mazarron), formed by 4 tanks of an old treatment plant wastewater lagoons, which are now abandoned and a gravel pit that receives water from the existing treatment plant, and Lagunas de las Salinas (Alhama de Murcia), consisting of 2 tanks of an old treatment plant wastewater lagoons, now operating as ponds that store water for agricultural use.
Over time, these three spaces have become naturalized to the growth of reed-belt mainly around the edges, giving rise to three naturalized lake complexes attractive to many vertebrates among them birds, particularly waterfowl.
The project's main objective is to show society that it is possible to reconcile the water purification, subsequent agricultural use and conservation of nature in the pond where the water is stored, since in some cases have become important places for conservation of some species of waterfowl, such as white-headed duck.
The LIFE project investment * White-headed Duck amounts to 1,342,103 euros, and is funded by: 75% of funds from the EU LIFE, 4.40% of the municipalities that are members of the Project (Molina de Segura, Murcia Alhama and Mazarron) and 20.60% of the region.
The European Union has already predicted about 400,000 euros of financing for the start of the project in October 2010.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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