This agreement between the three entities will increase rescue actions for protected marine fauna in the facilities located in El Prat de Llobregat. The project has a duration of 6 years and aims to make a more functional, more open and more sustainable center.
On Wednesday 26 October, the Fluidra Foundation, the CRAM Foundation and Fundesplai signed a collaboration agreement to promote and carry out a project to improve and remodel the CRAM facilities in El Prat del Llobregat, which will increase veterinary care for sea turtles, cetaceans and seabirds.
The action aims to expand the response capacity in clinical and rescue actions of protected marine fauna, providing the facilities with the technical conditions that allow them to be operational throughout the year, improving the treatment and quality of the waters and their performance and energy efficiency. In the development and execution of the project, Fluidra will use the most advanced technologies in order to improve performance and energy efficiency.
A reference space
The investment will also improve infrastructures to facilitate educational activities to raise awareness of endangered marine species and ecosystems, the causes that threaten them and the main individual and collective solutions for the conservation of marine biodiversity.
Last Wednesday a technical commission was launched to lay the foundations of this new common project, which will last 6 years. The event was attended by Joan Planes Vila, president of the Fluidra Foundation, Josep Gassó, president of Fundesplai, Carles Castells, economic vice-president of Fundesplai, Josep Lluís Pal, president of the CRAM Foundation and Anna Romeu, vice-president of the CRAM Foundation, as well as technical staff from the three entities.
The current space of the CRAM Foundation has 18,000 square meters in the natural spaces of the Delta del Llobregat in El Prat de Llobregat, becoming a leading facility in clinic and recovery of marine fauna in the Mediterranean with its inauguration in 2011. Since then, the CRAM Foundation has recovered and reintroduced more than 800 sea turtles, assisted more than 350 cetaceans and hundreds of seabirds. This initiative represents the consolidation and future projection of a reference center in the recovery of fauna, and in the conservation and awareness in favor of marine biodiversity.
The president of the Fluidra Foundation, Joan Planes i Vila, stated that Fluidra has the necessary technological equipment to improve its facilities and stressed the importance of CRAM’s work in raising awareness among children and young people and protecting animals.
In turn, the president of the CRAM Foundation, Josep Lluís Pal, stressed the importance of recovery centers as social speakers on the problems that affect the marine environment, and stressed the uniqueness of CRAM and its facilities as a nerve point of awareness and collective awareness towards the conservation of biodiversity.
The president of Fundesplai, Josep Gassó, highlighted the importance of this action to improve the facilities to carry out actions to make buildings more sustainable and that will serve to reinforce the work for the defense of nature and the promotion of education for sustainability.