The Verdemar Ecologists in Action group requests, after holding several meetings with officials from the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge on the expansion of the Special Conservation Area of the Eastern Strait, that in the conversations with the United Kingdom and Gibraltar on Brexit, the protection of the Protected Area by the Natura 2000 Network is prioritized.
In the various meetings with the General Subdirectorate of Terrestrial and Marine Biodiversity, Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, we have proposed this. We have raised our concerns about the waters that Gibraltar occupies in that Area Protected by the Natura 2000 Network after leaving the EU.
For Verdemar Ecologistas en Acción, there are many environmental problems that must be clarified in the Brexit negotiations.
The Natura 2000 network constitutes a fundamental instrument within the European policy on nature conservation, relating to the conservation of natural habitats and wild fauna and flora or the Habitats Directive, and Directive 2009/147/EC of the Parliament European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds or Birds Directive.
This protected marine space, called the Eastern Strait, is located in the eastern part of the Strait of Gibraltar. The Strait is the only natural connection between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; and its waters, which are home to great biological wealth with both Mediterranean and Atlantic species, stand out for their importance
as a migratory corridor for numerous species of interest.
It includes the eastern area of the bay of Algeciras and extends to the Alboran Sea, its outer limit reaching a maximum width of 7.4 nautical miles. It covers a total area of 23,641.82 hectares.
On the other hand, we also ask the deputy Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix, recently appointed president of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Congress of Deputies, to not only work on this protection, but on expanding it so that the “external anchorage” that the Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras wants to carry out off the coast of Sotogrande, a world-renowned tourist center.
2024-02-04 19:12:57
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