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Although Garbancillo Tallante remains endangered, researchers at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) have achieved over the four-year duration of the project of conservation of this species from extinction in the short and medium term.
The June 1 officially conclude the project of conservation of the species, which is why the researchers involved in it relate this week in techniques for the conservation of 'astragalus nitidiflorus' all activities days quarters that have been conducted during this time, and achievements.
These include the reintroduced be between ten thousand and twelve thousand species in the field and preserve hundreds of seeds of the species in the genebanks.
"You can not say that the species is no longer endangered, but we avoided it is extinguished in the short and medium term," the professor area responsible Vegetable Production project, Juan Jose Martinez, detailing that part the seeds that have managed to produce in the field are stored long-term in these seed banks, "each year we would be able to produce thousands of copies to transplant field."
The garbancillo Tallante is a species that lives at most four or five years, depending on environmental conditions.
Hence it is expected that in the coming years we can talk about 7,000 or 8,000 copies Tallante area.
According to the expert, the seeds planted during the project "will already be dead, but before that have borne fruit and have left thousands of seeds, which is very likely to come in autumn with the rains."
Also it has made great efforts in the field of dissemination both in schools and in society in general.
For this purpose the Bank Land Stewardship Conservation Garbancillo Tallante, which will ensure the continuity of conservation efforts of this plant was created.
The custodian also seeks the conservation of all natural, architectural and cultural west of Cartagena through the involvement of multidisciplinary collective resources.
From now as Martinez suggests, the responsibility for the protection and care depends on the Autonomous Community.
To contribute to the recovery and conservation, researchers have developed a recovery plan for the species, which have moved to the Governing Council and expect approval for the summer.
The plan envisages the establishment of new population centers, reducing the threat factors populations of garbancillo, for example in times of drought supplementary irrigation will be provided, information signs will also be installed in the vicinity of populations to warn visitors of high value botanical, collecting seeds of each core separately garantirizará and referred to genebanks and population monitoring will take place, among other actions.
As for the publicity has been given to the project include lectures to students of primary education, activities for them and visits to the area Tallante.
In two years he has been offered involving more than 40 schools have been given more than 120 lectures and field visits.
In addition, there have been seminars for college students, have volunteered for the program activities and Leisure Alternative for the weekend, has been involved in European voluntary programs.
"The people of Cartagena already know what the Garbancillo of Tallante," says the professor of the UPCT María José Vicente who stressed that these activities organized UPCT and the city of Cartagena, but the Entity Land Stewardship Conservation Garbancillo Tallante has also organized activities and parallel talks.
NAKED IN 1910
The plant was described to science in 1910 by Carlos Pau, thanks to the work of Francisco de Paula Jimenez botanical Munuera, who collected a year earlier in Cartagena, where he lived.
Since then and for almost a hundred years the location and conservation status of the species was a mystery, since no re-locate.
It was in 2004 when the biologist Sergio Martinez Mendoza returned to locate the plant around Perez Netherlands, in the Campo de Cartagena.
Because of their rarity, their climatic conditions, their affinity for volcanic soils, the special relationship with land in which traditional crops, where tillage is minimal develop, and the threat of fragmentation of its population, garbancillo Tallante it was listed as 'endangered' not only in the Murcia region but also in the Spanish Catalogue of endangered Species.
The garbancillo Tallante ( 'Astragalus nitidiflorus') is a plant that is only known in the Campo de Cartagena, where his only world population is fragmented into four small groups, according to sources with the regional government said in a statement it appears.
The importance of conservation of the species earned her project LIFE11 BIO / ES / 727 'Conservation' Astragalus nitidiflorus 'in its potential habitat in the region of Murcia', in which the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the City of participating Cartagena, and counts as associated with the Office of Social and Economic Promotion of the Environment of the Autonomous Community of Murcia.
Source: UPCT
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