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La Siesta Park hosts a large Pump Track of 4,000 m2 for skateboards and BMX bicycles, very popular among the youngest, with three well-differentiated areas: Advanced Pump Track, Medium Level and Children. All facilities are surrounded by 300 units of trees, two plateaus of climbing vegetation, including bougainvillea, more than 2,000 m2 of planting area fed by sprinklers and 2,500 m2 of green areas with plantations of more than 20,000 aromatic and shrub plants. For its care and maintenance, the City Council has made the park available. seven municipal workers from the green team and four janitors, who yesterday took office, assigned to the Sports area, who will be responsible for the management of the park

This plantation helps regenerate one of the most threatened environments in the Mediterranean

In recent days, the Torrevieja City Council has carried out the transplant of 24 trees of the Ceiba Speciosa species, which for 30 years have been located on the sidewalks surrounding the Park of Nations.

Additionally, this coming Saturday, February 3, there will be a planting for families with children so they can enjoy a picnic in the middle of nature within the natural park.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, together with the Councilor for Tourism, Rosario Martínez and the co-founder of Oxytours, Fran Lucha, have presented the Guided Hiking and Environmental Education activities in our municipality, which includes guided routes in the Natural Park of the La Mata and Torrevieja Lagoons and the Molino del Agua Municipal Natural Park, together with educational and environmental information activities in Primary schools, as well as in the coves and beaches of Torrevieja.

The students actively participated in the environmental recovery of the space with the removal of 1 ton of invasive exotic species, specifically, Carpobrotus acinaciformis

The Councilor for the Environment of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Vidal, together with the Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, the director-conservator of the Lagunas de La Mata-Torrevieja Natural Park, Francisco Martínez, and the deputy manager of AGAMED, Gemma Cruz , have presented this morning the planting and regeneration activities that will be carried out on the occasion of the celebration of Tree Day 2024. Some actions that will take place on January 31 and February 1, for schoolchildren from all centers Torrevieja schools.

In 2022, for the third consecutive year, the Kentish Plover returned to nest successfully on the beach of La Mata, achieving that a total of 3 pairs nested, with 8 being the total number of pups that emerged.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, together with the Councilor for the Environment, Antonio Vidal, the mayor of Education, Ricardo Recuero, the director-conservator of the Lagunas de La Mata-Torrevieja Natural Park, Francisco Martínez, and the deputy manager from AGAMED, Gemma Cruz, has participated this morning in a planting and regeneration of trees in the Lagunas de La Mata y Torrevieja Natural Park, which is being carried out on the occasion of the celebration of Tree Day 2023. Some actions that are carried out throughout today, Tuesday, January 31, and tomorrow, Wednesday, February 1, for schoolchildren from the 14 educational centers of Torrevieja, and that is going to become one of the most participatory and important plantations in recent years in the Valencian Community.

Students from the 14 schools in the town will plant nearly 800 plants in 2.5 hectares of the Lagunas de La Mata-Torrevieja Natural Park

The purpose of this modification of the contract is to control the feline colonies and at the same time avoid collateral damage that may be generated in natural and urban biodiversity, mainly caused by the existing colonies on the periphery and within the Lagunas de La Mata Natural Park. and Torrevieja and in the Municipal Natural Park "Molino del Agua"