The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas valued the progress in the projects for the restoration of the marshes of the inlet of Mera, in the estuary of Ortigueira, and for the environmental treatment of the coastal edge of the beach of Regueiro, in the city of Bergondo, which come from being submitted to public information by the Demarcation of Costas de Galicia.
María Rivas stressed the importance of these actions, which seek to recover two spaces of high environmental value degraded by human action and which will allow their correct management so that they can be enjoyed by citizens.
In the case of the marshlands of the Mera inlet, the project includes the removal of fillings and dykes, the elimination of alien species, alien species, not typical of these habitats and the management and adaptation of itineraries and pedestrian access, guaranteeing the continuity of transit servitude. These actions, which have a budget of 5.8 million euros, will allow, among other things, to recover the hydrodynamics of the estuary and preserve a space that constitutes a very important place of passage and wintering of aquatic birds, that is why it is registered in the Ramsar Convention, in the Inventory of Wetlands of Galicia, and in the General Registry of Natural Spaces of Galicia, being catalogued as ZEPA (Special Protection Area for Birds) and ZEC (Special Conservation Area).
For its part, the project of environmental treatment of the coastal edge on the beach of Regueiro, in the municipality of Bergondo, seeks to guarantee the effectiveness of the transit servitude in the face of the regressive effects of the coast so that the citizens can continue to enjoy this space safely. The aim is to establish in the short and medium term a solution that is in line with the Back Up Act and that takes into account the effects of climate change. The actions, which have a base tender budget of 1.06 million euros, will contribute to the improvement of the stability of the beach and its adjacent slopes and to preserve and enhance its biodiversity.