The Mariñas Coruñesas e Terras do Mandeo Biosphere Reserve, within the aid to Management Bodies, charged to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (European Union-NextGenerationEU), held, on Saturday, April 29, 2023, a conference environmental volunteering at O Pedrido Beach (within the ZEC Betanzos-Mandeo of the Natura 2000 Network).
The work, in which 20 volunteers participated, focused on the removal of the invasive plant Arctotheta calendula, as well as the collection of garbage and microplastics from the sandbank.
The Reserve would like to thank the involvement of the Bergondo City Council Social Cooperation and Volunteer Group, the Center for the Promotion of Personal Autonomy (CPAP) in Bergondo, as well as the company Ribeirán Proxectos Naturais, which showed total involvement with the activity.
At the end of the day, the removal of approximately 100 kg of garbage and 400 kg of plant remains of Arctotheta calendula was recorded, which were duly transferred to an authorized waste manager.
