Biodiversity Foundation RNBR Project: Renaturalization of irrigation ponds in the Mar Menor area
- Type Project
- Execution 2024
- Scope Europeo
- Main source of financing Fundación Biodiversidad
- Project website Web proyecto (Fundación Biodiversidad)
The project involves nine irrigation ponds with a storage capacity of 592 m3, installing floating islands with aquatic vegetation to reduce pollutants and improve the quality of irrigation water.
It includes renaturalization actions on 35 hectares through the revegetation of the ponds, their banks, and the plots where they are located, using different strata and plant barriers and promoting ecological connectivity in the agricultural environment.
- Renaturalization work on the nine ponds with floating islands and vegetated banks.
- Improving vegetation cover and controlling erosion.
- Creation of at least one ecological corridor to improve ecological connectivity.
- Implementation of alternative crops to horticultural crops and reduced irrigation.
- Communication, dissemination and transfer of results actions.
The overall objective is to naturalize nine irrigation ponds and their surroundings, creating green filters that improve the quality of irrigation water, serving as biodiversity refuges, and generating a terrestrial space to reduce erosion, improve ecological connectivity, reduce irrigation water consumption, and evaluate alternative crops.
Its specific goals include:
- Launch of a pilot project using green filters to capture agrochemicals and salts in irrigation pond water using macrophytic vegetation.
- Increased biodiversity of vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants. Improved erosion, runoff, and soil health.
- Integration of irrigation ponds into the landscape.
- Reduction in volumes of water use and/or demand.
- Comunidad de Regantes Campo de Cartagena
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