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The Program of Information and Environmental Awareness of the Department of Urban Planning, Environment and Garden, led by Antonio Navarro Corchón, has involved the participation during this year 2017 of more than 5,000 people who have carried out the activities proposed by the program or have used the environmental information services that the City Council makes available to visitors in the Municipal Park of Majal Blanco and in the area of ​​La Contraparada.
The main novelty has been the workshops of nature to family groups, which aim to involve the little ones in the conservation and knowledge of the natural spaces of the municipality.
In the Majal Blanco 1,054 people have been served at the Environmental Information Point that the Department opens during weekends and holidays in the Plaza de las Moreras.
For its part, the Visitor Center, open on Sundays in the nature classroom, has received the visit of 259 people.
These two services will maintain their opening hours during the Christmas holidays, remaining closed on December 25, January 1 and 6.
The information point of La Contraparada has registered a large number of visitors throughout this year, both for the interest of the site and for operating in parallel as a sealing point for pilgrims who are going to Caravaca for the Jubilee Year.
Specifically 2524 people have been served in it.
Of the 33 specific activities developed during this period, 19 have been guided environmental itineraries in which 387 people have participated.
In addition to the itineraries through the Majal Blanco, new routes have been added, such as the plaster mines of the Miravete, the Rambla del Cigarrón, or an itinerary to the Contraparada by the river and the orchard.
The 4 nature workshops and seminars, held both in the Majal Blanco and in the Contraparada center, have registered the participation of 52 people.
In all of them, the participation of family groups has been encouraged.
There have been workshops to learn about the flora of the Contraparada environment through the realization of a herbarium and knowledge of the nature of the place in the fall, a family gymkhana in the surroundings of Majal Blanco and the traditional Christmas sweets workshop , that this year has celebrated its 15th edition.
Information booths 2017
As for the information booths that the program of the Department directed by Antonio Navarro installed in Santo Domingo for environmental awareness, in the week of 6 to 12 March, an information point was installed within the framework of the activities of the "Week from Orchard".
During the week 526 people were informed about the activities scheduled for this week.
In the second week of June, a new information booth was installed to mark the World Environment Day, in which informative activities were carried out in addition to informative activities that commemorated this event and in which 239 people participated.
Environmental program 'Hacemos Piña'
Also from November 27 to December 5 a campaign was carried out to publicize the environmental volunteer program "Hacemos pineapple".
This campaign installed a mobile information point in different places of the municipality such as the artillery barracks, the Espinardo campus, the San Basilio pergola, the Town Hall square, the UCAM and the surroundings of the Saavedra Fajardo and Floridablanca IES.
During the campaign, 35 people were informed about the program and 9 new registrations were made.
For its part, the program of Environmental Volunteering of the Municipality of Murcia has reached during this period the figure of 329 registered people who have had the opportunity to perform 10 activities, several of them in collaboration with entities such as ANSE, ASTRAPACE, ADESGA and AGUAS DE MURCIA.
In these activities, rafts for amphibians have been recovered and restored, reforestation work has been carried out, the ecological garden of ASTRAPACE has been maintained and the state of the Majal Blanco trails has been evaluated.
The environmental volunteering program "Hacemos piña" has participated during the year 2017 in the Volunteer Fairs of the UMU, on the occasion of the University Welcome and the Murcia South Volunteer Fair.
Navarro stressed that "From the City of Murcia we are already working on the new call for activities for the period January-June 2018 that will incorporate new features with which to deepen the knowledge on the municipal environment, the understanding of their values, and the needs of conservation and citizen participation in its continuous improvement, in a playful and dynamic context ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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