The Arrecife City Council is developing an activity to disseminate the values of the natural resources of the Arrecife marina and its environmental importance for the species that inhabit it.
From the Department of Beaches and Environment, led by Councilor Davinia Déniz, a project was launched last February that is allowing students from the infant, primary, and ESO educational centers in Arrecife to learn directly about the marina and the species that live in these ecosystems that bathe the Arrecife coastline.
The mayor of the city, Yonathan de León, and the councilor Davinia Déniz de León have participated in these visits and have met with the students, including last week with the participation of a group of students who are studying ESO at the IES Blas Cabrera Felipe. These visits are supported by an environmental educator hired by the city council for this project.
This Wednesday, the day that César Manrique would have turned 105 years old, a few meters from what was his birthplace, a group of students from the CEO of Argana visited La Marina in the capital of Lanzarote, and focused on exploring the species that inhabit the Charco de San Ginés.
The Councilor for the Environment, Davinia Déniz, recalls that the initiative focuses on an educational and didactic aspect so that students discover the unique and singular ecosystem that the marina houses. The aim is that from childhood they are aware that we must all preserve them. The students have learned about the existence of the 'Valonia balls', one of the treasures of the Charco de San Ginés.
The low tide makes it possible to contemplate the bottom of the Charco de San Ginés. Here, the presence of Valonia aegagropila has been discovered, "a beneficial macroalgae that houses a rich universe of invertebrate fauna inside. In addition to cleaning the water in the lagoon, it constitutes a banquet for the aquatic birds in the environment."
The participating students, who have been previously coordinated with the educational centers of the municipality, have received in their visits to the Charco de San Ginés the explanations of the environmental educator who instructs on the biological importance of the marina, which has peculiar characteristics, volcanic bottoms, shallow waters, and the natural protection of the maritime front that is granted by the group of islets that were born with the volcanic genesis of Lanzarote. The sum makes the capital of Lanzarote unique for its large and rich species that have their only habitat in the Canary Islands here.
