Park progress Coastal defence

ESTEPONA’S mayor, Jose Maria Garcia Urban, has once again requested the government takes the necessary steps to agree that Estepona can carry out the necessary works for coastal defence.

includes the expansion of the children’s playground, taking it from a 260-metre squared space to more than 600-metre squared, and boasting new playground equipment for children of all ages. Improvements will also be made to the park’s water network and new park furniture will be installed.

Muñoz described the aims of the project as “Trying to improve recreation and leisure spaces for local residents,” adding that the park was chosen due to population growth in the local area.

After the damage caused by the last storm, the mayor explained that the Consistory has the will and the means to carry out these necessary actions to protect the coast in the municipality, which has a length of 22 kilometres of coastline.

“This issue is a priority for the Consistory,” said the mayor, who regretted that there is no urgent planning by the central government to solve the problem.

The mayor added: “The continuous storms that hit the Malaga coast have become a periodic threat to the coastal strip, causing numerous problems and serious damage to public and private infrastructure and equipment.

WITHOUT a doubt, the zebra is one of the most recognisable, colourful and popular mammals in the wild.

The breed that resides in Selwo Aventura in Estepona is the plains zebra (equus quagga), the most common and widespread type of zebra.

The plains zebra lives in all habitats in Africa - mostly in the southeast - from sea level to 4,300 metres on Mount Kenya, with the exception of rainforests, deserts or dune forests.

PARKOUR is a type of training and a physical discipline that consists of going from point A to point B in the most efficient and simple way possible. It requires jumping, climbing, running, rolling, swinging, walking on all fours and any other type of movement that the situation demands.

Those who practise it (the so-called traceurs) must combine strength, speed, agility, coordination, control and abundant creativity.

Fuengirola is set to create an area for Parkour practice next to the new

“The regret is that this is affecting the competitiveness of the province as a tourist destination and causes a negative impact on this sector of activity.”

The mayor recalled that in other places on the coast of Estepona where coastal defence works have been carried out, there are clear results of stabilisation and protection against storms.