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We need to strengthen the population of Teucrium campanulatum, listed endangered, improve conservation of the species and promote awareness of citizenship
The Community, in cooperation with the City of Yecla and volunteers of this town, is developing an environmental project to reintroduce a new population of Teucrium campanulatum, wild plant listed endangered by the Regional Protected Wild Plants Books.
Its purpose is to strengthen the population of this species in the town, increase control and protection of new areas and improve the conservation of the species.
With this action the conservation needs of this species are also disclosed and sensitized to the local population on the importance of its preservation.
The project, whose execution time will last until July 2015, involved the planting of 120 units in the Navajo Torres, located between the mountains of the Hawks and the municipality of Magdalena Yecla.
The venue is a Navajo, seasonal pond, which favors the production of biomass is harvested by hunting or livestock.
To ensure the introduction of new samples, we proceeded to the suitability of the soil through irrigation and digging and finally planting of plant material.
Once reintroduced specimens, the City made the risks necessary to ensure the performance, and the Directorate General for the Environment, the follow-up.
This project began in May 2013 with a study of the populations of the species and locations for reintroduction, to continue the necessary germplasm collection and germination, in order to recover and conserve species of wild flora endangered.
Then, in the nursery of the Valley saw the plant, about 200 copies, of which 120 were employed in the plantation.
Endangered Species
The Teucrium campanulatum is a plant of the family Labiatae (thyme), which is distributed in the western Mediterranean, especially in the Iberian Peninsula, Italy (Italian mainland and Sicily) and North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria).
It is very sensitive to habitat disturbance, besides presenting highly fluctuating population size as a result of erratic rainfall, which explains that populations have a certain itinerant and unstable in space and time species.
The populations located in Abarán, White and Molina de Segura have disappeared as a result of human action.
In the Region of Murcia is protected by Decree 50/2003, of 30 May, by which the Regional Catalogue of Protected Flora of the Region of Murcia is created and rules for the use of various forest species are given.
The species is listed as endangered only two natural populations are known.
Source: CARM
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