Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Junta buys land in natural parks

    The Junta de Andalucia has destined 14 million euros in the last year on the purchase of private land within Andalucia's natural parks in order to ensure their conservation.

This is the continuation of a project which started in 2001 with the purchase of the 564 hectare 'El Cortijico' in the Sierra Maria-Los Velez natural park for 534 thousand euros. This year the Junta has made nearly 3,000 hectares public, with some of the most important being in the Cabo de Gata-Nijar natural park where two properties with a total of 23 hectares were bought for more than a million euros. One of these was at the Playa de Monsul, a place made famous by Steven Spielberg who filmed scenes for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade there.

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