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Councillor for Agriculture and Environment in the City of Caravaca de la Cruz, Enrique Fuentes, has claimed that the dunghill or bird feeder the saw Mojantes recovers, once it is approved the new decree of carrion birds, which allow the morgue in certain areas of the municipality.
"After knowing this draft decree, which was referred to us by the Directorate General of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Aquaculture, we think it is appropriate and necessary to resume the use of the facility for food necrophagous birds, such as the griffon vulture" he said Fuentes during his visit to nearby farms.
Also, from the City of Caravaca de la Cruz she has been transferred to the Minister of Water, Agriculture and Environment, Adela Martinez-Cacho, the advisability of establishing a financial aid for those farmers who collaborate with the maintenance of feeder, carrying the bodies of their respective farms, thus to compensate the efforts made with the transport thereof.
Moreover, Councilman Enrique Fuentes positively assessed the aid program of the Autonomous Community to improve the feeding and breeding of steppe birds, endowed with 5.4 million euros over the next five years.
The aid is intended for those sites of farms that are within the perimeters of protection of steppe and arable crops dedicated to upland birds.
127 applications received counseling during the reporting period.
Beneficiaries have to meet for a period of five years a number of commitments, such as use for planting varieties of cereal medium or long cycle, not harvest before 15 July, and leave 10 percent of the crop unpicked with destined for feeding wildlife.
They should also maintain the rate of local fallow and no effect on it any herbicide treatment, keep the surface of stubble without lifting until the last day of January following the harvest year and protect nests steppe birds against possible destruction by livestock, avoiding grazing for 3 months a year over 50 percent of the area of ​​the holding.
Steppe birds associated with the cultivation of cereal in this line of support would have the greatest impact would be: sandgrouse, little bustard, kestrel, marsh harrier and bittern.
"These species, mostly migratory, are bio-indicators of climate change, as well as being of community interest and be protected by the regulatory directives of the Natura 2000 network and state regulations and the Community on endangered species."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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