"The river Mula awaken your senses" was the name of the initiative for the conservation and environmental regeneration of the banks and bed of this tributary of the Segura as it passes through the town of Alguazas that, over nearly four months, has been aimed at promoting citizen participation through various actions to promote volunteering to improve the watercourse.
We talked about a project promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment under the Volunteer Program in Rivers and channeled by the Segura basin, has been developing for the support and coordination of the Delegation to the Region Murcia of the Spanish Association for Environmental Education and collaboration alguaceño Consistory (through its Department of Environment), the University of Murcia and various local groups (such as the Club of the Third Age and the Associations' Action Lollipop "for the Revitalisation of Leisure and Recreation, "Amigos de la Torre," Women and Women Alguazas Nigerian residents in the population) and the schools in the municipality.
The bulk of the activities of this environmental initiative have formed the thematic sessions, conducted in the area known as "Hill of the Misindos" alguaceña population, have focused their objectives in the implementation of various workshops capable of encompass a comprehensive topic about it and have dealt with content such as water quality analysis (conducted by staff of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Murcia and focused to illustrate the degradation of river ecosystems and the Mula River by using microscopes), biodiversity, urban birds of the Vega Media of the Segura, water (monitors by energizing the Association outlined "Action Lollipop" showing river perception through the senses with performing clubs Rain, watercolors and ecospheres), fingerprints, butterflies and water use.
"The river Mula awaken your senses", which seeks to encourage participation, enjoyment and interaction both neighbors particularly as local associations through the implementation of sustainable alternatives and business friendly environment and under the admirable purpose of teaching to hear, see, smell, taste and feel a river that requires the involvement of all to achieve recovery and conservation, has been completed with another initiative open to as many participants as a poetry competition was to have taken part the creations of people of different age and who, being limited to a maximum of 14 lines, have had as thematic conservation of rivers in general.
The winner of the literary award, author of the poem "You do not hear the river," was the famous local writer Catherine Cano Sarabia has been rewarded with a folding bike valued at 180 euros and donated by the organizing body, that is, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
This ceremony of the distinction, developed in the afternoon of Saturday, September 15, at the offices of the iconic Old Tower or Tower of the Bishop of the town, attended by municipal authorities headed by the Mayor-President Consistory, José Antonio Fernández Lladó and Councillors of Environment, Villages and Social Services, Francisco Javier García Gambín, José Manuel Caballero and Maria Dolores Gil Hernández García, respectively, and the Coordinator of Volunteer Program said Rivers, Francisco Javier Almansa, the Dean of International and Institutional Relations at the University of Murcia, David Christian of Faith Rodriguez, and of the representative in the Region of Murcia of the Spanish Association for Environmental Education, María Jesús Medina Gonzalez, who went public a few words gathered at the event and made it well by residents of the locality in general by representatives of local participants in the environmental initiative of schools and population-who received them all - plus the University of Murcia, to proposal of the competent Department, some diplomas of gratitude for their help in improving the quality and conservation of Mula river on its way through the town by engaging in actions to promote environmental volunteering and river ecosystem conservation.
Likewise, the act of culmination of this initiative participation and environmental regeneration Mula River as it passes through the town of Alguazas, in the municipality of Torre Vieja assumed more awards, this time called "Soles River", especially those groups and individuals who, in the course of the "The River awaken your senses", have stood in the proper development of it relapsing mentions in Alguazas Women's Association and the collective "Action Lollipop" and one of neighbors has cut more cane margins above river bed, which he won a scooter donated equally by the Ministry promoter.
Identical also be circumvented toy among all project participants regenerator.
And the evening celebration, enlivened with a performance of the dance group "Between Waters" of the municipality did not end here because also in the unique setting of alguaceño oldest monument was inaugurated an exhibition of photographic images taken both during the multiple activities of this project as the work done by the residents who took part in them.
To access the program of activities in the framework of "The Mula river awakens your senses", those interested can visit the official website of the Spanish Association for Environmental Education, which is http://www.ae-ea.es or on the Facebook page of the Spanish Association for Environmental Education.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alguazas