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Parla (Madrid), intends LANDSCAPING THE HILL OF THE Cantueña, natural areas of great ecological value.

Parla City Council seeks to destroy the mountain of La Cantueña, natural area of \u200b\u200bgreat ecological value with its transformation into a public garden.

The current economic model socialist city council Parla, no different from that in the Community of Madrid by the Partido Popular. Thus, his absurd and irresponsible policy of all developable expected to occupy 79% of the municipality with buildings, regardless of the undeniable ecological values \u200b\u200bof urban land.
The remaining 21% devoted to the "undeveloped land of special environmental protection", ie parks and gardens, so the entire municipality has lost its natural essence, being urbanized, and its identity as a distinct local others of their environment by contributing to the senseless creation of this huge megalopolis that is intended for the south of Madrid.
Among the sites chosen to create the green jersey of Parla, is the iconic Cerro de la Cantueña, and its surrounding hills Buenavista and La Coronilla, in spite of its recognized ecological value.
Harnessing the vast territory in which these hills are located, the municipal government aims to create a great urban park north of the locality, which has included in the project "Parla Green Belt" along with other parks and gardens of the city, deliberately ignoring the uniqueness of these territories, which further coalesce important ecological values, values \u200b\u200bsignificant paleontological, archaeological, geological, cultural, etc.
Thus, the present construction of a pool of water for irrigation in one of the slopes of the hill of Buenavista adjacent to the path of the relevant Costerón and water pipes, can give us an idea of \u200b\u200bthe absolute lack of scientific rigor to the when selecting potential sites landscaped and the importance that the council gives the most outstanding natural areas in their municipality, governed only by populist actions, which dazzle the citizens, as far from unaware of the ecological values \u200b\u200bof these hills, the government municipal corner has opted reports and articles that demonstrate the significant ecological, biological, geological, and cultural factors that have these hills.
However, several sectors of the population will applaud this measure motivated by different interests, neglecting or ignoring the many values \u200b\u200bthat captures the true nature of these hills, which will become a pathetic urban garden where many extraordinary animal and plant species have been annihilated.
Their inclusion is actually an old and cherished goal of this council, the radical transformation of these valuable natural environment of mountains, seeking a recovery apparent environmental which is nothing else than the destruction of ecological balance, taming a territory should retain its character.
The Cantueña, Buenavista and La Coronilla, have enormous potential for Conservation of Nature, due to the above ecological values \u200b\u200bthey hold. Thus, we have recorded so far 264 botanical taxa, of which 9 are endemic species and 4 endemic Iberian Ibero-Mauritanian and constitutes the western limit of distribution of certain taxa in the Community of Madrid, so you must add your biogeographical value.
For wildlife, these hills are home throughout the year, 91 species of birds, among which include 9 species of diurnal and nocturnal-3, plus 12 species of mammals, 7 species of reptiles, 162 species of invertebrates recorded, of which 2 are endemic Iberian and 1 is an Ibero-Mauritanian endemic. Prominent among the invertebrates, the community of diurnal butterflies with 25 species (of which 4 have a very localized distribution in the Community of Madrid) and at least 9 at night (1 of them being legally protected).
addition, several taxa threatened with extinction in the town of Parla have their last refuge in these hills. In this way, we have counted 33 species of wild plants, 17 species of birds, 4 species of mammals, 5 species of reptiles and 8 threatened invertebrates.
In relation to their geological value, it is noteworthy that the hill of La Cantueña is one of the very few examples of hill-witness of the Tertiary period, present in the metropolitan area south of Madrid.
In connection with their cultural values, we should note its great archaeological value, being ranked this natural area by the Community of Madrid "Cultural Property" in the category of "archaeological site" by a decision of 23 September 1994, have been dated to different historical periods, from the age of metals to the sixteenth century. No wonder this documentation, since in the field of Bañuelo adjoining this hill, they met in August 2005, archaeological remains from various historical periods: the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the beginning of the Roman, and Visigothic (S. III and VI), as well as the Middle Ages.
addition, the newsletter of the Royal English Society of Natural History, published in volume VIII in 1908, described the discovery of a knife or scraper Mousterian period, in the vicinity of this hill. Nor should we forget, the presence of traditional crops multicentennial almond and olive trees, which represent an irreplaceable heritage by providing an uninterrupted link with the agricultural culture of the Iberian Muslim period, characterized by its uses agroforestry. Transform
irreplaceable natural areas in parks, gardens and domesticated simple, devoid of ecological values, is an evil act, a true aberration.
But perhaps we should ask, why destroy unique natural intentionally ignoring its important ecological values?, Why the City of Parla not inform citizens about the important ecological values \u200b\u200bthat are home to the hills of Cantueña, Buenavista and the Crown and other municipal natural?, are you municipal and regional governments encouraging people to the absurd belief that a landscaped park is the same nature, which has the same ecological value?, what will happen to the ecological values \u200b\u200bof these natural areas with wildlife , with its ancient geomorphology, with traditional agricultural uses, etc., and the sacred in these parts?. Consentidamente
gradual degradation of these hills, is no excuse to turn them into a single urban garden, so the question arises: why not design a real project of environmental restoration for these hills, which include measures for regeneration Habitats degraded empowerment of populations of threatened species, extension of their values, etc..?.
Is it intended to use the enthusiasm of the people, their apparent environmental sensitivity, to present the landscaping of the mountains as a great success of the municipal government, given the advanced state of environmental degradation that have both benefits and in developing its landscaping?.
The irresponsibility of local and regional politicians, rob future generations of their right to be partakers of the true nature, without artifice, full of wild plants and animals, capable of providing many benefits to man, not just economic.

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