The Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment has informed the City of Totana from this September will be carried out improvement works in the recreational areas of the regional park Espuņa, which include removing barbecues remaining in recreational areas of public forests owned by the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia.
This measure, which has already been addressed in the latest Governing Boards of the Park, will not affect or be applied in the environment barbecues Santa Totana, public forest owned by the City of Totana.
With this action, according to sources of the Ministry, it aims to improve regional public use of the park, focusing on greater security for visitors, and a lower risk of wildfire.
The fire risk is present in mount whenever there is fire so because the value of this natural heritage of the Park and the terrible environmental and social consequences of a major fire in this area, eliminating points of fire arises as a recreational element in the field of forestry eminently natural space, as is Sierra Espuņa.
Also, the location of some of the barbecues can generate other environmental and public use problems such as the difficulty of access in the case of having to make an evacuation, distribution of dispersed visitors in the territory and greater effort for cleaning and maintenance these infrastructures and its surroundings as well as specific problems for the conservation of natural space, resulting from the accumulation or dispersion of waste in the environment.
