Seixal Municipality will present the Seixal APPé mobile application, which will announce the Network of Environmental Interpretation Rails of the Municipality of Seixal, on September 27, Wednesday, at 6 pm, in the Auditorium of the Central Services of Seixal Town Hall.
The Seixal APPé mobile app (learn more here) will take users on a guided tour, with some adventures and challenges, helping to better understand the natural values of the county. An app, designed for tablets and smartphones, which will integrate content and awareness actions for the conservation of nature among the young and school community.
The network is developed in strategic areas from the point of view of biodiversity and nature conservation, namely in the two vital areas identified in the Municipal Master Plan of Seixal: Site of Community Importance of Natura 2000 Network Fernão Ferro / Lagoa de Albufeira and Baía of Seixal, belonging to the estuary of the South Tagus. This site, with 4 413 ha, limited to the west by Costa da Caparica fossil and to the south by Lagoa de Albufeira, occupies 12% of Seixal Municipality area, in a total of 1 167.32 ha, and has natural habitats threatened with extinction and designated as priority habitats. The area of the Tagus estuary, made up of Seixal Bay and adjacent areas, includes the marsh of Corroios / Talaminho, the marsh of the Viveiros de Santa Marta, the marsh of the peninsula of Alfeite, the marsh of the Judeu river, Azinheira and Coina, and respective protection strips, totaling 1 290 ha, corresponding to 52% of the total area of the National Ecological Reserve (REN) of the county, and to about 13.4% of the total area of the municipality . The marshes stand out because of the conditions they offer, namely in terms of biodiversity, as the basis of the entire food chain and refuge for the reproduction of birds and fish, of climate change, since they are also carbon sinks of great importance in the control of the erosion of the banks, their stability through sedimentation and bioremediation, intercepting and retaining water from the upper zones, controlling floods and filtering pollutants, contributing to the improvement of water quality and to the ecological balance of the surrounding areas. In order to disclose the aforementioned natural values, a set of five tracks was identified along an extension of approximately 30 km, covering 25.4% of the total area of the municipality. With a total investment cost of 107,982.68 euros, the project will have a Cohesion Fund contribution of 72,073.03 euros.
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