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Protecting Biodiversity
Preserving and Protecting Biodiversity in the City and Port
Supporting the efforts of civil society to protect fauna and flora in the City Port territory.
How can marine and terrestrial biodiversity be maintained in Port City spaces?
Port infrastructures and activities can cause irreversible damage to seabeds and contribute to the disappearance of fauna and flora. By taking into account this environmental footprint and considering ecological engineering and eco-design measures for port infrastructures, this biodiversity can be restored and preserved. Moreover, it is possible to modify infrastructure or build new facilities to protect ecosystems from the negative effects of port/industrial activities. This was the solution taken by Huelva Port; by restoring natural areas, they increased biodiversity in port areas.
This good practice also includes objective 10.4 (Supporting the efforts of civil society to protect fauna and flora in the Port City territory) of the AIVP’s 2030 Agenda.
The port of Huelva, which covers some 1700 hectares, is located in the estuary of the Odiel and Tinto rivers. The estuary is a zone of international ecological importance, and various sectors of the 12,000 hectares of marshland are classed as national parkland, biosphere reserve or Natura 2000 zones. In 2006, the Port of Huelva embarked on a programme to restore dunes, marshes and beaches along 4 kilometres of the Odiel’s left bank. These environments had been seriously deteriorated and contaminated by the port’s activity and also by intensive industrial practices.
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