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Esteemed neighbors
and visitors of the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata-Níjar:
We inform you
that the new PORN (Plan de Ordenación de los
Recursos Naturales- Plan of Regulations of the Natural
Resourses) which will rule as the maximum law (norm)
of the protected space of the Natural Park, is now in
public exposition. As we expected, based on what we
knew from the previous project, the protection of this
Reserve of the Biosphere diminishes remarkably, producing
a great risk for the conservation of this fragile sub-desert
ecosystem
For all of
the above, we organize a Campaign of Public Contentions
to the PORN of Cabo de Gata.
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You will find here information of how to sign the contentions
Describimos aquí
los principales problemas de esta nueva normativa:
-In the new law
we find (and without specific norms in the urban areas!!)
San José, San Miguel, La Fabriquilla, La Isleta,
Rodalquilar, Las Negras, Agua Amarga, among others,
increase in size beyond reason, in some cases quintupling
their extension , with which an abusive urban development
would be produced, putting in danger the natural ecosystems,
in addition to propitiate the development of masses
of tourism unthinkable for conserving a Natural Park
as valuable as that of Cabo de Gata. And to this we
can add the subjects of infrastructures, drinkable water,
residual waters /sewage, and such which until now are
endemic deficiencies in this area and which will only
increase with the resulting volumen of people which
is expected.
* Also in the new PORN large agricultural areas of intensive
cultivation in the open air with irrigation are potentiated.
Areas which until now have been only of dry-land, non-irrigated
farming, the majority of them abandoned agricultural
fields in the process of regeneration, will now be over-exploited
by irrigation, which will change the sub-desert ecosystem
typical of this Natural Park and will radically change
its landscape. Some of these areas include zones of
incalculable landscape-panoramic and ecologic value
such as the plains of Genoveses, the valley of Rodalquilar,
Escullos, etc. Zones C1.
* There will be a legalization of all of the illegalities
which have occurred and which have been denounced :
illegal greenhouses, illegal urbanizations …(Isleta,
Algarrobico, Rodalquilar, etc)
* The coast will be at the mercy of massive tourism
development, that is, with the exception of small areas
of total protection, the most important beaches (El
Playazo, Cala de San Pedro, Genoveses, Monsul,etc) obviously
those of greatest natural landscape value, will no longer
be protected, since tourism is being promoted with the
modifications of usage for greater profit; the new regulations
will potentially decrease the protection of the whole
coast. Zones B3 + B5.
*The new map of
the PORN project can be seen in web
de la Junta de Andalucía.
That is, the Natural
Park Cabo de Gata will be converted to an area of massive
tourism and intensive agricultural exploitation, with
which its protection and conservation will be impossible,
and one of the few unspoiled areas of the Mediterranean
coast will degrade, an area doted with all of the qualifications
for protection: Reserve of the Biosphere, LIC (Lugar
de Interés Comunitario-Place of Community Interest),
Directiva Habitat de la UE- Habitat Directive of the
European Community, ZEPA (Zona Especial Protección
de Aves- Zone of Special Protection of Birds), ZEPIM
( Zona Especialmente Protegidas de Importancia para
de Mediterráneo- Special Protected Zone of Importance
for the Mediterranean), and included in Geoparques 2000,
and still the Environmental Council plans to reduce
the protection and conservation laws and thereby favor
the unrestrained greediness of a few.
For all of
the above, we ask for your collaboration in this Campaign
of Public Contentions to the PORN of Cabo de Gata.
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You will find here information of how to sign the contentions
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