Within the third regional campaign 'Clean Up the World', the City of Jumilla, through the Department of Environment, will deliver and plant trees on Friday, October 2 with the objective that these species will be planted later.
The distribution will take place in front of Vico Theatre from 9:00 am.
Pine species are distributed as Aleppo (Pinus halepensis) or pine (Pinus pinea), and also, but to a lesser extent, palm (Chamaerops humilis), carob (Ceratonia siliqua), strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) and Kermes oak (Quercus coccifera), all native species from forest nurseries of the Autonomous Region for later planting.
Each floor (approximately 45,000 copies) shall be accompanied by a brief manual for proper planting.
This local action also joins the international effort sponsored by the United Nations Program for Environment (UNEP), under the slogan 'Plant for the Planet, the campaign of one billion trees. ( http://www. unep.org /
billiontreecampaign / spanish /
index.asp ).
Since 2003, the Environmental Volunteer Program of the General Directorate of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity (Ministry of Agriculture and Water in the Region of Murcia), offers volunteers the opportunity to participate with the Foundation "Clean Up the World" ( "Clean Up the World"), an international environmental campaign since 1993, has achieved more than 40 million people worldwide in over 100 countries are involved each year to make their environment a cleaner place healthy and acting locally and thinking globally.
"Clean Up the World" in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), encourages local efforts as key to improvements in long-term environment, and promote joint action by companies, associations communities, schools, governments and individuals ( www.cleanuptheworld.org ).
After the success in 2008 and with the remarkable participation of 25 municipalities in the region reached an estimated participation of 1600 people coming to multiply by seven the number of volunteers who participated in the "First Day Clean Up the World Regional 2007. "
This year's campaign entitled "Communities unite to combat climate change globally was held the weekend of Clean Up the World 2009, 26 and 27 September ( http://www.cleanuptheworld.
org / en /), thus, the Programme of Environmental Volunteers in Natural Areas in the Region of Murcia, working again at its 7 th edition with the "3 rd Regional Campaign Clean Up the World 2009", for which, there is with the support and synergy of the four nurseries in the Autonomous Community of Murcia, where is the forest plant production included in the Regional Catalogue of Protected Flora in the Region of Murcia.
In this context, seeks the participation of all municipalities in our region who want to join this year as in the past, this conference.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla