The area of the Salobral de Campos, as well as the dunes system of Estrenc and the adjacent areas of Ses Covetas in the West, the Natural Park of the archipelago of Cabrera in the South and the cape of Ses Salines in the East, create one of the most important places from the environmental point of view in the island. The adjacent areas of Cap Enderrocat and Cap Blanc are also important.

With an extense of 1451.90 ha, this area is protected by Natura 2000 and it is designated as ZEPA zone (Zone of special protection of birds) and ZEC zone (Zones of special preservation).

Regarding the environmental degradation, two areas have to be kept in mind:

Dunes system of Es Trenc

This area of maritime and terrestrial public domain is a zone of great environmental value and high fragility because of the impact received by inhabitants and tourists, as well as by bars and beach bars and the cleaning and maintenance services performed at the beaches (mainly the cleaning service and the collection of seaweeds and posidonia).

This area of special preservation consists of these different types of habitat:

• Coastal lagoons.
• Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand.
• Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimae).
• Mediterranean and thermo-Athlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocometas fructicosi).
• Embrionic mobile dunes.
• Shifting dunes along the shoreline with (Ammophila arenaria).
• Fixed dunes along the shoreline of Crucianellion maritimae.
• Dunes grasslands of Malcomietalia
• Shoreline dunes with Juniperos sp.
• Dunes with sclerophyllic scrubland Cisto-Lavanduletalia.
• Mediterranean pre-desert scrub.
• Mediterranian riparian gallery forest and scrubs.
  
  
  
  

Salobral de Campos

Private domain-like, this area also has a great ecological value and a special protection. Its state of environmental preservation is optimal, because it receives a lower impact due to it private state, so it is less exposed to public impact. In any case, its envornmental future must be kept in mind because it receives other types of impact from farming, and it has to be protected from future threats.

The following habitats are part of it:

• Mediterranean salt meadows.
• Mediterranean salt steppes (Limonietalia).
• Wet floodplain depressions.
• Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition.

Apart from these scenic interest areas, the whole area has a great value from the avifaunal point of view.

The salt mines of Estrenc, as wetland, have a huge value as a place for nest-building and bird stops, from which it is remarcable the importance of:

Remarcable species

 Important species

 Key species

 Others species of interest:

FLORA

• Limonium antonii-llorensii
• Limonium migjornense
• Silene sericea-balearica
• Otanthus maritimus
• Pancriatum maritimum
• Seirophora villosa
• Tamarix canariensis
• Tamarix gallica

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