comenius project europe united

COMENIUS PROJECT

EUROPE UNITED

2012 – 2013

2nd part

Octhebius glaberOcthebius glaber• The Ochthebius glaber commonly The Ochthebius glaber commonly

known as `` the Beetle of salt´´ , known as `` the Beetle of salt´´ , it is an aquatic gorgojo , and it is an aquatic gorgojo , and belonging to the family belonging to the family Hydraenidae.Hydraenidae.

• Has a length of about two millimeters Has a length of about two millimeters and his body is narrow and and his body is narrow and elongated, and it is glossy black, with elongated, and it is glossy black, with brown eyes and palps.brown eyes and palps.

• This kind is endemic to the Iberian This kind is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula , is located in four Peninsula , is located in four provincesone of them, Murcia. provincesone of them, Murcia.

• Appears in hypersaline Appears in hypersaline environments. Their food is micro environments. Their food is micro snake.snake.

• It has a very fragile and alterable It has a very fragile and alterable habitat, besides low.habitat, besides low.

Bonelli’s eagle

•Bird which nests mainly in cut limestone. Keeps some competition with the golden eagle, excluding both in their breeding grounds. Accurate open space with abundant prey (partridges, pigeons and rabbits mainly).

Habitat

•This species is found in the Mediterranean region and South Asia. In Spain most of the population is in the Cordilleras Subbéticas Penibetic in the Iberian and Sierra Morena, Montes de Toledo.

Distribution

•Present in most of the region, although very little. Their populations are declining. Missing in the Great Plains and in the high elevations.

Population

The fartet

• Is a fish that lives in ponds, irrigation ditches, coastal lagoons salt…both freshwater and saltwater.

• Is omnivorous. Each female lays hundred to nine hundred.

• The contamination and exotic fish introduction adversely affect it, taking it up as a species considered endamgered.

El Chato Murciano

• Chato Murciano’s training pig occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from indigenous pigs black coat belonging to the trunk Iberian race Gabana, Chato Murciano pig for the black layer, and its origin and spread the core Lorca area. Your selection center was established at the Center for Research, Training and Agricultural Experiences Lorca (CIFE).

• The white variety was selected in the area of Murcia huertana with network selection in the Pool sericulture station that is within the IMIDA in Murcia. It grew out of the race swine Graffiti, also belonging to the Iberian trunk but with mixed red and white hairs in spots. About Murcia pig breeds pigs acted especially imported foreign breeds Yorkshire, Berkshire, Craonés and Alderney.

ENDANGERD

PLANTS

Descripción

• Shrub up to two meters high, with palmate leaves and berry-like fruits.

Distribution

• We can find it in Carrascoy, saws Cartagena, Monte Valley, Altona and Escalona etc

Interesting things:

• It's kind of special interest.

• It is often grown in parks and gardens.

• Some plant parts are usually consumed.

Levantine oak

Description

• Tree up to 25-28 m tall, with the cup and not very dense ovoid. Leaves usually 10 x 5 cm with 7-14 pairs of nerves, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, the young elliptical obovate-elliptic, margins serrate, sometimes spiny-toothed

Habitat and geographical distribution

• Inhabits forest formations in humid ravines and cliffs, in thermo-mesomediterranean floors with dry-subhumid ombrotype.

• It is a typical Mediterranean element. In the Iberian Peninsula is located in the coastal North and Levante, Murcia reaches terminally, where they are isolated individuals, most of them with evidence of introgression with holm.

• Conservation and threats

• Species in recession today is ecologically and genetically displaced by Quercus rotundifolia, resulting in varying degrees of hybridization.

• Quercus ilex is bound to a "genetic death" irrevocable because they produce acorns are hybridized with pollen of Q. rotundifolia. Carrascoy Individuals who are in arid environments are in worse shape, some of them have died in recent years.