One more year, the NGO ‘Ecologists in Action’ has analyzed the 8,000 kilometers of coastline of Spain to study which of them are in worse condition. As a consequence, it ‘punishes’ the most polluted or with the most environmental problems with a black flag.
This summer, among the 48 (two from each coastal province) that suffer serious problems such as urban speculation, untreated wastewater discharges, accumulation of garbage or the erosion of the coast, they repeat that of the port of Fonsalía (in Santa Cruz de Tenerife) or that of Mar Menor (in Murcia), whose situation continues to worsen over time.
The emergence of COVID-19
The project Black Flags celebrates this year the fifteenth anniversary and continues to fight for the care of the beaches. In addition, as if that were not enough, ‘Ecologists in Action’ denounces some consequences of the appearance of COVID-19 in this 2020, like the dumping of masks and gloves on the beaches and seas of our country.
All of this significantly affects marine flora and fauna, the main responsible for all these conditions being humans.
The 48 black flags of 2020 awarded by ‘Ecologists in Action’ are:
Andalusia
Almería (Playa del Deretil and Cala Siret, Villaricos), Cádiz (Playa de El Carmen, Barbate; and Playa de Los Lances), Granada (Playa de La Rábita – El Pozuelo and Playa del Peñón de Salobreña), Huelva (Ría de Huelva , Ría de Piedras, Playa de Lepe and Isla Cristina) and Málaga (Litoral de Estepona and Nerja).
Asturias
Gijón.
Canary Islands
Las Palmas (Las Dunas and Los Lobos) and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Puerto de Fonsalía, La Tejita Beach and La Nea Beach).
Cantabria
Cantabria (Usgo Beach and Marisma de Raos in the Bay of Santander).
Catalonia
Barcelona (Badalona and La Ricarda Lagoon), Girona (Costa Brava) and Tarragona (Playa Llarga and Delta del Ebro).
Ceuta
Coastline of the North Bay.
Basque Country
Vizcaya (Pantalán de Plentzia and San Juan de Gaztelugatxe) and Guipozcoa (Pasai Donibane and Isla de Santa Klara).
Galicia
A Coruña (Playa Lires and Playa de Las Delicias), Lugo (ALCOA area and Lucense marina) and Pontevedra (ENCE area and Marín port).
Balearic Islands
Mallorca (Cala Egos and port of Palma).
Valencian Community
Alicante (Playa de San Gabriel and Playa de Babilonia), Valencia (Playa de Les Fonts and Forti-Fora-Forat-Cervol) and Castellón (Playa de Medicalia and north extension of the port of Valencia).
Murcia
Portmán Bay, Sierra Minera and Mar Menor.
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