Spain will execute the largest project in the history of the LIFE funds in Europe World Wetlands Day

Spain is launching the largest LIFE project in history, the European Union’s main funding instrument dedicated exclusively to environmental protection and climate action, which has financed more than 6,000 projects since its inception in 1992. On the occasion of the celebration of World Wetlands Day, the Vice-President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, presented today in Irún (Guipúzcoa) the LIFE Wetlands project, in a day that included a visit to a Plaiaundi wetland that will be restored by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) within the framework of this initiative.

“Protecting wetlands is not only a matter of ecology, it is water security, resilience, public health, green economy. It is intergenerational justice. We believe in a country that grows by taking care of what belongs to everyone, that generates prosperity by improving the environment and leading together,” said Aagesen during his speech at the presentation of the project. Previously, the vice-president was able to learn first-hand about actions already carried out by MITECO in this environment, such as the naturalisation project of the Artia canal, in the section between the GI-636 and the Bidasoa estuary, in Irún. This action has had an investment of 3.7 million and is in its final phase of execution. The intervention has made it possible to recover the ecological functionality of the riverbed, increase its naturalness and improve the integration of the space into the Natura 2000 Network, making environmental restoration compatible with public use.

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