The City of Murcia, through the Department of Planning, Environment and Huerta, who heads Antonio Navarro Corchón, and ACUDE Association have signed an agreement for land stewardship and sustainable development of forest municipal properties.
The objective of this agreement is to have an environmental management quality in these areas.
It also allows the promotion of land stewardship as a tool for conservation of cultural, natural and landscape values ​​and promotion of traditional uses of the environment compatible with conservation.
Thus, this activity is aimed at promoting an activity of public utility or social interest for sustainable development of municipal forest farms.
The actions ACUDE can perform are:
Watch on incidents in municipal forest farms, giving forward them to the City of Murcia
Inventory of existing environmental goods, such as flora and fauna, and plans to promote biodiversity.
Advice on Action Plans that the city of Murcia provides for public forest farms character.
Collaboration promotion campaigns protected areas, public property, including educational workshops and seminars organized by the City Council.
Making environmental education and dissemination of the values ​​of these characteristics of the area, in coordination with municipal programs.
Facilitate public use of municipal forestry farms according to the natural values ​​of the area.
Make available to the City Council, on a regular basis, information to be determined for the purpose of facilitating the monitoring of activities on farms as well as for a model applicable to other areas of the municipality.
Currently, in the municipality of Murcia there are 23,973 hectares of protected areas, of which 2,000 hectares are municipal property.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia