The CDS deputies want the Government to identify the species of seahorses existing on the Portuguese coast, according to a draft resolution delivered this Wednesday, April 14, in Parliament.
The centrists want the Government “to expedite, together with all entities under its tutelage, involved in the work carried out by the Center for Marine Sciences”, of the University of Algarve, “the means necessary for the identification and management of the existing seahorse species on the Portuguese coast».
The CDS also recommended starting "with the places already identified, in order to allow the establishment of more protected areas and the transmission to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature of the data necessary to create a protection status".
Centrists argue that it is “urgent to classify and define a seahorse protection statute”.
In July 2019, a resolution was unanimously approved that recommends the Government to draw up and implement a management plan for priority species and their respective habitats in the Ria Formosa Natural Park.
This plan includes the implementation of specific measures for the species of seahorses "and had its origins in the CDS Draft Resolution 1870/XIII, later accompanied by other projects from more parties with a parliamentary seat", according to the centrists.
Among the points of the plan are «the preparation and implementation of a management plan for species and habitat in the Ria Formosa Natural Park» and support for the project of the «Center for Marine Sciences of the University of Algarve around the study of the seahorse and its reproduction in aquaculture, for later repopulation».
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