Press
article published in the Magazine TotParc (September
2009), Diari de
l'Ebre (27/08/09), La Marfanta (20/08/09), the
Ràpita Magazine and
the Amposta Magazine.
Our Delta suffers background problems
like: regression, settlement of the deltaica platform, salinization,
increase of the sea level, pollution, massive housing development...
The associations Jóvens
per la Cultura i Sostenibilitat a les Terres de l’Ebre
and obre't'ebre leaded a workcamp called "Preservation of the
Bar of the Trabucador II", from the 2th till the 16th
of August.
15 volunteers of the 4 Provinces of Catalonia
worked cleaning the Bar of the Trabucador, work of which we have very
proud, since the daily average has been of 20 industrial bags summing
a total of 3000 Kg of garbage collected, picking up every kind of
garbage, but we highlight and we denounce that the majority of
garbage are human: plastic bottles, glass, napkins, papers, brics,
boxes of fishing worms, ropes, nets, food rests...
We have
camped in the Municipal Stadium of Poble Nou del Delta and we have
enjoyed the services that the village have offered us. We thank its
disposition and collaboration.
Besides we have carried out
other tasks like the plantation of 104 trees and autochthonous plants
in the gardens of Poble Nou del Delta with the intention of making
aware the people that autochthonous plants consume less water, we
thank the collaboration of the Town Council of Amposta; we have also
cleaned 119 tamarix of the Llacuna del Clot in order to collaborate
with the Natural Parc of Ebro Delta and to give shelter to the bats;
in the Casa de Fusta we practice sustainable exchange, cleaning a
footpath and transplanting waterplants from the lagune (yellow
iris/Iris pseudacorus and bullrush/Typha sp.) in
exchange for the loan of bicicles for all the participants during all
the workcamp; in the Nature Reserve of Riet Vell of SEO/BirdLife we
cut cigars of Bulrush (Typha sp.) as a manual method of
prevention of weeds in the ecologic rice fields and we have visited
the Deltàrium and the Ecomuseu to know the Natural habitats of the
Delta.
The
Bar of the Trabucador has been
converted into a zone of picnic for the day, but during the 15 days
that we have been cleaning it, we have noticed that it is as if it
were a camping, but without having the services that a camping would
loan, like showers, toilets, shadow zones, litter bins.... So people
installed in the beach, or those who spend the day or the night leave
the dirt there. It is necessary also to say that from of all these
persons who use the Bar of the Trabucador as a camping, there are
some that respect the environment, as they transmitted us, as another
tasks of the volunteers was to make aware to the people of the
situation of the Bar of the Trabucador.
Another subject that
has surprised us a lot and for which we want to forbid the camping in
the Bar of the Trabucador is the loss of vegetation, not only in the
zones where there are not dunes, but also in the flat zones. The
turists access as far as where they can arrive without danger of
getting stuck in the sand and be able to be nearer the sea, but they
do not notice that they are treading on the vegetation and that it
will not grow again. Some of them think: "They are only
weeds!!", but it's a big mistake. These plants, amongst others, European Marram Grass (Ammophila
arenaria), Barilla Plant
(Salsola soda),
limoniums, reeds... they form a protective barrier that the
sand and the dunes prevent to be eroded by the wind and the sea, so
that the sea of inside and that of outside do not join and we can
continue enjoying the beach of the Bar of the Trabucador in this way.
For this motive from the Workcamp we carried out several performances
for preserving the natural environment.
We profit to make a
social call and ask to the people to be aware that the Bar of the
Trabucador is one of the best beaches of Catalonia because in terms
of habitat, since it is the only beach of the Catalan Coast that
better preserve the vegetal community formerly quoted.
At the same time, we make a call to the
Town Council to improve the services and regulate the lost control of
the Bar of the Trabucador in an urgent way, instaling litter bins or
delimiting the paths, the traffic and the parking of vehicles and we
thank it for the budget that has been given us for carrying out the
workcamp.
The workcamp has been carried
out with the support
of the Secretaria General de Joventut, the City Councils of Amposta
(and Poble Nou del Delta) and Sant Carles de la Ràpita and with the
collaboration of: the Agricultural school of Amposta, Soldebre, the
Restaurant l'Estany-Casa de Fusta, the Nature Reserve of Riet
Vell-SEO/BirdLife, the Deltarium, The Nature Parc of the Ebro Delta,
Audouin Birding Tours, the Alberg L'Encanyissada one and Tourism and
traditions Polet.
obre't'ebre and Jóvens per la
Cultura i Sostenibilitat a les
Terres de l’Ebre
