Step by step, but not as fast as we would like, SALARTE keeps working to recover Trocadero Island. Working in a marshland that the responsible authorities ignore, every week we are challenged by new obstacles which have to be overcome. As previously reported (winter 2017 … Continue readingLa Covache – Update
Since February 2016, which finalised Salarte’s period of management of Isla la Covacha, the members of this NGO [non governmental organisation] have not ceased to look for alliances for the reconstruction of the sluice gates and boundary walls damaged in the winter of 2015 and … Continue readingLa Covache – A Time for Waiting
Approximately 2.500 years ago, when humans discovered that they could transform the marshland, they learnt to use the tides towards their benefit, such as producing marine salt and estuary fish. Thus, they were unknowingly providing optimum conditions for the environment and their plants and animals … Continue readingLa Covache – Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The Andalucia Bird Society are proud to have officially adopted the ‘Covacha’ as its conservation project. It is an exciting project and here Juan Martín Bermúdez explains in depth the objects and history to the conservation value to this reclamation work. We hope to be … Continue readingLa Covacha – Turning the Dream into Reality
