About fifty people planted a total of 300 pines in Umbria Cerro del Castillo de Jumilla in the 'Day of Reforestation and Environmental Awareness', conducted by the Association for the Integral Development of Women in Rural Areas "Water and Earth."
On this day present was Councilman Hall Jesus Sanchez Agriculture and representatives of the various rural associations Jumilla.
Jesus Sanchez highlighted the work of 'Water and Earth' and congratulated this and other initiatives that develop in our municipality, together with the Department of Women, "in this case will collaborate on environmental awareness and working on reforestation."
The City Council has worked in this action giving public mountain spaces, plus technical support to various municipalities.
For its part, Maria Jose Soria, head of Soil and Water stated aim is "to sensitize the population about the problems of reforestation and environment in our region, raising awareness and mobilizing the entire population for reforestation and care of the natural environment, looking for clean and sustainable energy alternatives. "
A day developed within the 'Campaign for the development of initiatives for reforestation and sustainable use of bio-energy, clean development of the natural surroundings of Murcia. "
The project, funded by the CAM in the call for environmental volunteers, VOLCAM-2010, has 15 women volunteers from the association "Water and Earth that have already been formed and are mobilizing throughout the Region of Murcia to educate and inform the population about the benefits of reforestation and cleaning of our forests, and the use of biomass to create clean and renewable energies that allow us to clean and sustainable development, taking care of the environment.
Water and Earth is a group made numerous performances throughout the Region of Murcia, as "days aimed at rural women, marketing new systems, new sources of employment in rural areas, and different campaigns as we do in Jumilla, is important that it be considered a strategic sector, capable of generating economies of scale, food handling industries, canneries and have given many jobs in the region now have to protect, assist and support very much this sector because we talk about employment and development in the Murcia region, "said Maria Jose Soria.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla