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El Puerto de Santa María City Council and FCC Environment present the Chamaeleo Project The City Council of El Puerto de Santa María and FCC Environment unveiled the “Chamaeleo Project”, coordinated by the Municipal Centre for Environmental Education and Ac- tivities in Nature (CEAAN), Coto de la Isleta. Held at CEAAN’s facilities, the event was chaired by the city’s mayor Ger- mán Beardo, who was accompanied by the deputy mayor of the City Coun- cil’s Department of Environment and Sustainable Mobility, Millán Alegre. During the presentation, the mayor highlighted the importance of this project to the CEAAN, which recent- ly celebrated its 20th anniversary and whose objective since its incep- tion has always been to bring sport activities and respect for nature to all visitors. “With the development of this scientific project, whose goal is to recover the population of the common chameleon and ensure its protection through citizen aware- ness, it is emphasized once again that the CEAAN is a key element in the progress towards a more aware and sustainable society”, said Ger- mán Beardo. Finally, the city’s ma- yor thanked all the members of the project for their combined efforts and the joint commitment to making this project a success, in the conviction that this will help raise awareness and promote this privileged natural site from a perspective of sustainabi- lity and environmental education. After the mayor’s words, Javier López-Galiacho Perona, Compliance and Corporate Responsibility direc- tor of FCC Group, that company that fully funds the Chamaeleo project, highlighted that this project has been selected within the framework of the Group’s 2020 Corporate Social Res- ponsibility Master Plan, approved by the FCC Board of Directors. Amongst its other objectives, the Master Plan seeks to support the conservation of biodiversity in our ecosystems and the Chamaeleo project responds to this goal perfectly. Next, Cecilia Caraballo Fernández, Technical director and José Anto- nio Gómez Sánchez, Environmental Education technician, both from the CEAAN, provided information on the project and served as hosts on a gui- ded tour of the facilities and the pine forest to end the event. On behalf of FCC Environment, Francisco Cifuentes, director of the Andalucía I Delegation, and Francis- co Huete, director of Management Systems and Sustainability attended the event. The main objective of this project is to restore the common chameleon population (Chamaelo chamaeleon) present in the Coto de la Isleta pine forest, analysing the distribution of this species, applying a scientific me- thodology, in order to obtain updated and useful information. This informa- tion will be used for the proper mana- gement and conservation of coastal ecosystems, such as the Coto de la Isleta pine forest; for subsequent scientific studies and works, and, in particular to involve local citizens through the environmental education and dissemination initiatives. R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y 35 R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y