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The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, today inaugurated the rehabilitation works of the old forest house in Coto Real, located in the municipality of Cehegín, which involves an investment of nearly one million euros, financed by European funds EAGGF ERDF.
Cerda said "the multipurpose nature of the new building, which will serve as a youth hostel, and also to hold municipal Cehegín City Council and the University Miguel Hernández de Elche, which will develop in this area of environmental education projects.
The responsible regional emphasized the potential of this environment to develop environmental education initiatives, as he said, "The building is located within the Special Protection Area for birds called Burete saws, Lavia and Cambron in which inhabit very interesting species such as the booted eagle, toed, owl, goshawk and sparrowhawk. "
Coto Real is situated in the most mountainous region.
Its environment is characterized by large tracts of pine forest pine and Kermes oak understory and scrub, with species such as rosemary, juniper, mastic, thickets and different kinds of thyme, plus espartales on the slopes of sunshine.
Among the highlights vegetation of juniper Juniperus phoenicea mesomediterranean rocky summit areas, communities of Sedum sediforme, lastonares Brachypodium and rocky vegetation.
Actions taken
The counselor said that for the rehabilitation of the building "have been taken into account environmental considerations, using local materials like wood and marble donated by the beds of Cehegín.
Has also used the Arabic tiles that covered the old forest house built in the early twentieth century.
The power supply has been made by underground line not to harm the protected birds.
For the supply of drinking water has built a pumping station beside a well, where it forces water into two reservoirs annexes to the building with a capacity of 3,000 liters of water each.
It was also well connected to an old tank which increases the volume of stored water.
Along the water supply, three kilometers long, have also been installed for fire hydrants may be supplied by tanker trucks, in case of fire.
In the area have also conducted preventive forestry activities, such as an auxiliary strip along the access road to the building of over 1.5 kilometers, with the aim of reducing the combustibility and hinder the spread of fire if this were to occur and ensure the long-term persistence of the mass of Aleppo from the action of external agents and increase vegetative vigor.
Source: CARM
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