The mine

The lithium mine would entail, as we already have seen from the results, that this type of industrial extractive techniques to open sky, problems for people's health, current economic activity and for the natural environment of our city:

• Direct and unambiguous aggression against the Health of the citizens of Cáceres, resident almost entirely less than 5 km from the area, polluting the air with harmful particles in suspension, monopolizing and contaminating the water of the mountains, real treasure, and threatening, due to its proximity, to vital infrastructures of the city. The Guadiloba supply reservoir, the drinking water treatment plant, the hospital, or the pioneer and recognized Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery and the future “City of Health”.

• Destruction of a unique landscape, public heritage of present and future
  citizenship. Erosion losses of tons of fertile soil, support of life on our planet, with a will of restoration of the damage, at least, uncertain in view of what has happened in recent times with other similar projects.

• Deterioration and difficulty of transit on public roads and paths traveled daily by countless people for health, leisure and professional dedication. Aggressions against neighboring private properties, harming the right to rest and a healthy environment of people residing in the environment.

• Health risks, while causing serious economic damage to agricultural and livestock professional and business initiatives (producers of quality food increasingly demanded), as well as those related to tourism in nature, sports, health, education, etc., which today enjoy an incomparable natural environment where to develop wich, in different of the wealth that they promise, it´s a public heritage.

• Elimination of the possibility of Cáceres positioning itself as a city of quality services and as a tourist destination with a longer stay than today, in which to combine historical heritage, nature and health.

Description of the environment.

The Sierra de la Mosca, the Mountain and the Calerizo de Cáceres constitute "a natural space of high

 ecological value, a refuge for flora and fauna, being the only rugged enclave that stands out from the 

Trujillo in the peninsula of Cáceres". It is a "green island in the middle of a cereal area". It is a shelter

 for animals and natural corridor that connects the SPA of Los Llanos de Cáceres and Sierra de Fuentes

 with the SPA of the capital, the only one in Europe located in a city by the abundance of the kestrel

 primilla.This is one of the many reasons included in the report made by professionals and scientists

 to support the request signed by 43 associations in June. Objective: to request the declaration of the 

Sierra de la Mosca, the Mountain and the Calerizo as 'Protected Landscape', due to its “high geological,

 prehistoric, archaeological and biological value, increased by the fact of being next to Cáceres and 

Sierra de Fuentes”. The purpose is to shield these places against initiatives such as the lithium mine

 in Valdeflores, which part of the public does not agree.

The request has been registered with the Regional Ministry of Environment. It is alleged that «the 

Sierra de la Mosca constitutes an exceptionally well-preserved natural environment near Cáceres (...).

 It is his lung, a natural regulator of temperatures in a city with long summers and little rain in these

 months ».It is a "natural jewel" because of the diversity of flora that gives it its conservation status,

 and because many species use this place "as the last stronghold to survive in the face of a changing

 socio-environmental landscape." And the geomorphological, climatic, landscape and water 

characteristics of this space, all make it «an oasis of biodiversity».

The predominant habitat is the Mediterranean forest and scrubland, which has the best representation

 of plants and animals linked to it thanks to the fact that the area has been poorly manipulated. But

 the mountains accommodate another multitude of microhabitats, which make it special when it comes

 to housing a large number of species vitally linked to these spaces: amphibians, reptiles, birds and

 mammals; in many cases protected by their exceptional nature.