INS Serrallarga provides community services in Marimurtra

A total of 300 students from three high schools in Blanes are passing through the Marimurtra Botanical Garden this month to extract invasive plants from the forests. This action is included in the framework of a community service project coordinated by the environmental association Xatrac and financed by the Generalitat.

In addition to the removal of invasive plants, the students are fixing paths and maintaining the nest boxes for the birds. Jan Rojas, a 3rd year ESO student at INS Serrallarga in Blanes, is confident that with these invasive plant removal actions, the Blanes ecosystem will be improved.

For his part, Bryan Figueras, head of Xatrac’s pedagogical department, explains the importance of removing invasive plants so they don’t take over the town’s green spaces.

The community service will be carried out in Marimurtra by nearly 300 students from three high schools in Blanes and approximately 300 more students from three high schools in Lloret de Mar in other green areas, over a period of two years.