Jose Garcia Murcia, candidate for mayor of Lorca United Left Greens formation presented on Monday an ambitious ecological-forestry program aiming to substantially increase the number of green spaces in urban areas and in the mountains of our town, well are "public forests", and also in the "private forest" reaching relevant agreements with the owners.
As for the trees in the city, the council has criticized the urban regeneration projects that are being made in different areas of the city have not seen a decisive action in this regard and have been limited to laying carpet and under trees porte.
The plan submitted by the applicant García Murcia includes providing financing with 0.3% of the municipal budget, which would be about the amount of 225,000 euros per year.
In addition, the funding program include the request for funds to the region and the state itself, as is the case, according to IU-Green, a very necessary project given the progressive advance of desertification in our latitudes and pests that affect our forest cover as the borer.
In addition, the candidate García Murcia has requested as part of this ambitious project, the implementation of higher education of Forestry (race that is not taught in any university in the Region of Murcia), and also the creation of a Forest Technology Centre its location in the town of Lorca but state scope and impact.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca