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Date Published: 06/05/2021
ARCHIVED - Orihuela digs deep for Tree for Europe initiative
The Environmental department in Orihuela, Alicante province, has promised to plant 5,000 trees as a contribution to reducing carbon emissions
The Town Hall in Orihuela has joined the #UnÁrbolPorEuropa (‘a tree for Europe’) initiative which aims to encourage each participating municipality to plant at least one tree a year.
Although the targets are very low, the project wors on the permise that many small actions add up to a big result; the project is supported by the European Parliamentary Office and aims to achieve major sustainable development goals.
In a demonstration of his support for the project, the head of the Environmental department in Orihuela, Dámaso Aparicio, has planted a palm tree in the Palmetal de San Antón, part of the 5,000 trees the adm,inistration plans to plant during its term of office, including 3,000 along the bank of the Segura river as part of the plan to recover the riverside forest that once existed.
A further 200 palm trees have already been planted in the Palmeral de Orihuela, which is an Item of Cultural Heritage, and there are plans to plant around 1,200 more, as part of the “El future del Palmeral, en tus manos” initiative.
The remainder of the promised plantations are made up of fruit trees in the Palmeral and urban gardens, the restoration and improvement of the palmetum SotoI6 and the adaptation of the landscape on the Monte de San Miguel.
Each individual tree planted reduced CO2 emissions into the atmosphere by half a ton per year, which means that, in total, the 5,000 trees planted in the municipality of Orihuela will reduce CO2 emissions by 2,500 tons each year once mature.
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