During the celebration of the day of the wetlands, about one hundred schoolchildren visited the wetland Saladar de Jandía, located in the south of Fuerteventura. With this visit the children have been able to know the environmental and cultural wealth of the Saladar and have received pedagogical material on the wetlands.
Doctor in Biology Stephan Scholz explained to schoolchildren that the ecosystem they were in was about to disappear in 1980 because it was an area to be developed, but this was avoided when protected with the first Law of Natural Areas of the Canary Islands With the development of the "Physical Restoration Plan and Saladar del Matorral".
Antonio Gallardo, director of the Biosphere Reserve of Fuerteventura, explained the importance of the wetland being part of the Ramsar Convention because it allows him to appear in a catalog of sites of great ornithological interest and also gives great recognition to the natural values of the ecosystem that Stands out as being the largest in the archipelago and the most important in European Macaronesia.
Source: www.canariasday.es
