ARCHIVED - Hundreds protest against erosion of Costa Blanca coastline
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One of a number of rallies was held in Guardamar del Segura in the Vega Baja area of Alicante province to demand changes to Coastal Law
Beach erosion is seriously threatening the Costa Blanca coastline and 64.8% of the beaches in Valencia region are suffering significant erosion which worsens with each storm, according to environmentalists.
To raise awareness and try to tackle the problem, Mediterranean Civic Movement staged several demonstrations across the region at the weekend, demanding the regeneration of the coastline and legislative change in the Coastal Law.
More than 30 citizens' associations joined the movement on Saturday August 6, with hundreds of people gathering on beaches to put pressure on the Ministry for Ecological Transition to urgently tackle beach erosion.
Rallies were held in Denia, Elche, Gandia, and Guardamar, amongst others across the region.
In the latter town, the Guardamar Playa Neighbourhood Association took part in a 200-strong rally at Playa Babilonia to try to bring about a change in the planning of beach protection.
According to the group, the sand on the coast "remained stable for thousands of years" until the mass construction of ports and reservoirs.
"In carrying out their activities, these infrastructures conceived for the common good and to generate wealth retain billions of cubic metres of sand in their breakwaters and dams, which in the past the sea and river currents deposited on the beaches and kept them stable and without erosion," said the group.
The association has warned for years that marine and terrestrial ecosystems have been damaged and the sea has been continuously advancing and engulfing the beaches, dunes, maritime settlements and salinising crop fields and marshes "without control".
"If we do not act, the future of our values and identity will remain in danger," they wrote in the rally announcement.
The Mediterranean Civic Movement and Guardamar Playa Neighbourhood Association are calling for "dialogue and comprehensive and inclusive solutions", as well as an in-depth legislative change to the Coastal Law "so that municipalities and citizens are not left legally defenceless".
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