Rescue and restore Walk for Life

ARBOLEAS Walk for Life 2023 will be held on Saturday, April 29.

Because of the Coronation, the date has been brought forward by one week to Saturday, April 29.

Sponsorship forms are available at Total Entertainment Albox and Arboleas or by emailing claire.walk4life@gmail.com.

Walk for Life is a voluntary group committed to helping people with cancer. It obtained Charitable Status on March 14, 2014.

The charity is located in Arboleas in Almeria and has been operating for the past 10 years.

The Walk for Life committee meets regularly and remains in constant touch with each other to ensure they administer to the needs of their client base in a quick and conscientious manner.

All of the people the charity help are dealt with in the strictest of confidence. Walk for Life has a data protection policy in line with current legislation.

OVER the next four years, Life Dream will spend time studying and restoring ecosystems heavily impacted by the effects of climate change, fishing and marine pollution along the Almeria coastline.

The project will be carried out in four areas of interest in the Mediterranean: the Monopoli shelf and the Bari Canyon in the southern Adriatic; the Dohrn Canyon in the Tyrrhenian Sea; the Seco de los Olivos seamount in the Alboran Sea; the Alonisos Marine National Park and the northern Sporades Islands, located on the continental shelf of the Aegean Sea. Claudio Lo Iacono, one of the project coordinators, con- firmed: “These ecosystems play a key role in maintaining global biodiversity and act as

CO2 sinks, so it is important to know their ecology and conservation status.”

Jorge Guillen, who also participates in the initiative added: “The LIFE-DREAM project will allow us to generate maps of the anthropogenic impact on these communities, which will help to improve their management and conservation and obtain a global image of the state of cold-water corals in the Mediterranean.”