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The Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE) has filed a complaint with the Directorate General of the Natural Environment and the Service of Nature Protection of the Civil Guard for the scrapping and dumping of parcels within the Ramsar Mar Menor Site, Regional Park, LIC and ZEPA Salinas and Arenales of San Pedro del Pinatar.
The Association indicates in its writing that there are occurrences of ruptures and discharges of sandbars and beach sand, probably by the City Council of San Pedro del Pinatar (see attached photographs), within the strip of 200 meters included within the Wetland of International Importance Mar Menor (Site RAMSAR), declared by the BOE n ° 273 of November 15, 1994 and considered by Article 49.1.a of Law 42/2007, of November 13, on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, published In BOE n ° 299 of December 14, 2007, as an area protected by international instruments.
ANSE fears that these discharges may be taking place pending the Autonomous Community to proceed to the protection of this area of ​​salt marshes within the process of approval of the Comprehensive Management Plan for the Protected Spaces of the Mar Menor and the Mediterranean littoral strip of the Region Of Murcia.
The association calls for an immediate cessation of discharges, the opening of a file on possible ecological crime and the environmental restoration of the affected area.
ANSE regrets that a space so pressured by public use, urban development and infrastructures, such as the Mar Menor and the Salinas and Arenales de San Pedro Regional Park itself, could lose part of its territory.
It is paradoxical that the posidonia clusters mixed with sand are removed by the City Hall from the beaches of the Park contributing to increase coastal erosion, and are thrown to land on the vegetation of salt marshes destroying an increasingly scarce habitat.
This has been happening in recent years due to the negligence of those responsible for the management of the Park and the application of the protection figure of the Ramsar Wetland of International Importance.
ANSE presented allegations against the reduction of 16 hectares of protected area in the Management Plan of the Mar Menor, precisely where the wetland is being buried with the dumping of beach cleaning materials, and in the same protected area where in recent years It has been allowed to build roads, desalination and urbanization infrastructures.
The Association reminds that the previous Minister of Water, Agriculture and Environment announced in March the construction of a green filter in this area, in order to treat the water coming from the drainage of the Campo de Cartagena.
The new team of the Ministry of Tourism and Environment, however, disregarded this commitment at the last meeting of the Social Committee of the Mar Menor.
Source: ANSE
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