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Thousands of people have tried this Saturday to complete the 73 kilometers of the Mar Menor coastline along several Murcian municipalities to give it a symbolic hug and celebrate, dressed in black, a mourning of mourning for the tons of marine fauna dead due to lack of oxygen these last two weeks.

They were summoned on all its beaches by the

Mar Menor Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) platform

, also to provide it with its own legal personality that allows it to combat discharges in court, which are destroying its biodiversity by eutrophication, that is, by the increase of nutritional substances that causes an excess of phytoplankton. It is considered that its origin is in the discharges of agricultural irrigation with nitrates and phosphates from fertilizers.

To reach the

Congress of Deputies

, 500,000 signatures are needed, which are being collected so that the rights of this natural area of ​​the European

Natura 2000 network

with various international protection figures (LIC, ZEPA, ZEPIM, RAMSAR wetland ) can be debated and aspire to become a law.

Jesús Cutillas

, from the organization, declared that "it was a question of collectively taking out the pain and saying goodbye with dignity to all the animals killed by our greed," while the mayor of Los Alcázares, the socialist

Mario Pérez

, congratulated himself on the fact that the beaches were "full of people who have come from different places" to participate in the protest, which was also joined by his party partner, the mayor of Murcia,

José Antonio Serrano

, while a group of batucada beats their drums.

"We already support the ILP from the Murcia City Council, as there has been a historical and eternal symbiosis between the municipality's orchard and the Mar Menor that has been transmitted between generations, as it belongs to everyone," he indicated.

"Also to those who have not yet been born, so we have to put all the meat on the grill so that this unique lagoon in the world can be preserved with all the beauty and splendor that it has always had, so we will support all initiatives to improve their environment, "he added.

'Sol y sal', the hymn of the Mar Menor

At the end of the hug, a minute of silence was kept, after which the song

Sol y sal

, from the Cartagena group

Nunatak

, with the collaboration of

Anni B Sweet, Miguel Ríos, Rozalen, Morgan, Second, Shinova, M-Clan, , Burns Bogotá and Ayoho

, which is becoming the anthem for the environmental recovery of Marmenore.

Between banners and T-shirts with the image of the seahorse and the fish bone and the legends "Sos Mar Menor" and "Mar Menor alive, zero discharge", Cutillas has made an automobile simile by defending that "you have to change the mechanic if the engine does not stop breaking, so here we must pay attention to the bunch of scientists, ecologists and biologists who have always been right and said what would happen if polluting practices were continued ".

The sailboat

Diosa Maat

, from

Ecologists in Action

, has joined the action by concluding in its waters its Mediterranean in Action campaign, which began two months ago in the Mar Menor denouncing the eutrophication caused by agro-industrial fertilizers and continued along the Valencian coast to warn about the impact of uncontrolled urbanization of the coastline, pollution from spills or loss of biodiversity.

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