World Year for Biodiversity. Biodiversity is life, our life

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The Spanish Committee of IUCN launches the “World Year for Biological Diversity” project, an initiative framed within the celebration of the International Year promoted by the United Nations.

On the occasion of the World Year of Biodiversity, the Spanish Committee of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) will coordinate volunteer actions with the aim of halting the loss of biodiversity. These activities are aimed at promoting social participation in the conservation of biodiversity. On the other hand, at the end of the year, actions will be developed to close the World Year for Biodiversity.

The IUCN Spanish Committee will coordinate the actions promoted by the member entities involved, the IUCN Flora Commission in Spain through the Spanish Society of Plant Biology and Conservation, the Aula del Mar de Málaga, the CRAM Foundation and Mediterrania-CIE.

The project has a marked educational character, as it will focus on raising awareness and training volunteers to get involved in the fight against biodiversity loss. To this end, the Flora Commission of the Spanish Committee of the IUCN will train 175 people in the detection of populations of protected flora and will carry out a census of threatened species at the national level. In addition, it will carry out a sampling of protected populations and publish this information on the www.conservacionvegetal.org website.

For its part, the Aula del Mar in Malaga will promote a volunteer program for the conservation of the biodiversity of the Mijas coast. In this way, there will be 300 volunteers who will clean the invasive vegetation in the area and repopulate it with native coastal plants. More than 250 volunteers from the CRAM Foundation (Foundation for the Conservation and Recovery of Marine Animals) will carry out cleaning actions on the coastal and marine bottom of the Catalan coast.

The conservation of amphibians is another issue on which the project will place special emphasis. A total of 24 collaborators from Mediterránia-CIE will contribute to the recovery of the breeding sites of different amphibians. Thus, a pond will be built in the lower basin of the Gaiá River, in Tarragona, and other existing ponds will be refurbished.