Dénia install an observatory and bird watching at the end of Les Rotes

With the aim of making known the species that frequent our coast, dianenses and visitors will soon be able to enjoy a terrestrial cetacean and marine birdlife observatory that will be installed at the end of Les Rotes, next to the Mena Restaurant.

According to the fisheries councilor, Sisco Signes, the geographic location and height above sea level make it the perfect location to observe the passage of seabirds or to spot cetaceans.

To facilitate sightings, an information panel about two meters in which all these species, without being aware, are our neighbors appear to be installed.

But promotion and knowledge of our waters and the species that live there will not be limited to the observatory, since from the departments of fisheries and the environment, in collaboration with the Xaloc association for the study and conservation of the marine environment it has started an outreach project of marine environmental richness that will be developed in several phases.

The first was the publication of a quadriptych Dénia, a window to the MediterraneanWhich by illustrations showing the species of cetaceans and sea turtles are sighted more frequently on our coasts, such as bottlenose dolphins and listed, the loggerhead turtle or fin whales. The guide also contains contact information to contact in the case of sighting, not only for help in identifying species but to contribute to the study and monitoring. The information collected will be transferred to the Biodiversity Data Bank of Valencia.

This guide, available at municipal offices, will be distributed in schools of the city taking advantage of a series of briefings to begin teaching next week as part of this project.

Looking for volunteering

As of March will begin the intensive search for fishing and marine environmental volunteer to collaborate on sightings and information gathering.

This initiative is open to everyone, and stakeholders will make a landlocked staff from the municipal marina and fishing coordination, responsible for instructing on cetacean species and birds that inhabit the environment and its characteristics.

Outputs, to be held once a week from the port of Denia, also serve for the types of commercial fishing that takes place in our waters, and will include visits to small fish found during the voyage.

These actions were presented by the Councilor for Fisheries, Sisco Signes, the Councilor for the Environment, Juan Carlos Signes; Juan Eymar and Carles Gago, from the Xaloc association for the study and conservation of the marine environment and the person in charge of the municipal marine and fishing coordination service, Toni Martínez.