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ISSUE NO. 1718
7 - 13 June 2018
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Lagoon rally ACTIVISTS, locals, fishing organisations and trades people have gathered outside Murcia’s regional government building to protest against what they claimed was environmental damage being done to the Mar Menor lagoon. The Pact for the Mar Menor group, an umbrella organisation of campaigners with more than 1,000 members, organised the protest to coincide with World Environment Day last Tuesday. Isabel Rubio, a co-ordinator from the group, spoke with Euro Weekly News ahead of the protest. She said the group were calling on authorities to draw up measures to stop the pollution of the lagoon. “If we want to save the Mar Menor an integral law has to be drawn up. A law which takes into account all the impacts,
CREDIT: Isabel Rubio (inset) Shutterstock (main).
‘We want to save Mar Menor’
PROTEST: The group said animals were under threat.
threats and pressures this coastal lagoon gets from intensive agriculture, construction, old unsealed mines and urban waste,” she said. Rubio added the salt water lagoon was the “most emblematic” natural site in Murcia. “As well as its important ecological value, this salty lagoon has historical, cultural, geographic and economic value.” “Fishing and tourism are a source of wealth for the inhabitants of the area,” she said.
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