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Largest man-made beach
approval of the government of CastillaLa Mancha.
According to the calculations, between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors are expected to visit the attraction annually. There will be an initial entrance fee of around €10 per person with separate charges inside the facility for the use of its activities.
Grupo Rayet shares the project with Crystal Lagoons, a firm specialising in the construction of artificial beaches all over the world.
The complex will include a large car park, areas for water sports such as sailing and surfing, children’s pools, zip lines, and various restaurants.
More than 300 direct and indirect jobs are expected to be created in Alovera Beach.
Teenager hit at crossing
A TEENAGER was rushed to hospital after he was run over by a vehicle at a pedestrian crossing in Las Tablas, located in the neighbourhood of Valverde, in the district of FuencarralEl Pardo, Madrid.
According to official reports, cited by a news source, SamurProtección Civil medics received a call about the incident and rushed to Calle Quintanavides.
Emergency services said that after arriving on the scene, they discovered that the boy had suffered from a traumatic brain injury.
The medical staff intubated the injured boy, and he was rushed to Hospital Niño Jesús in a serious condition.
Meanwhile, an investigation has been started by the Madrid Municipal Police after the incident.
Nine million sterile males released
THE Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition announced that it will increase the release of male tiger mosquitoes this year to nine million specimens.
This is part of a pilot project of biological control through the Sterile Insect Technique (TIE) that the government department has been promoting since 2017 in the Ribera Baixa region of Valencia.
In previous years, this technique has reportedly managed to reduce the population of tiger mosquitoes by up to 75 per cent.
Eight million insects were released in the Ribera Baixa in 2022. The release of sterile males was resumed at the end of February in this new sea son in order to anticipate the appearance of the first wild individuals, which usually occurs in springtime.
The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is a method of biological pest control that consists of the mass breeding of male insects of the same species that are intended to be combated. They are sterilised by irradiation and subsequently released in the area of action.
These sterile males mate with wild females, which causes the eggs they produce to be inviable. As a result, no offspring are produced, resulting in reduced levels of the pest.
This is the same technique that the department has used in the past in the fight against the Mediterranean fly in citrus fruits.
