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Valencian Govt protects 7500 hectares of coastal land. Valencia has approved the Territorial Action Plan of the Green Infrastructure of the Coast of the Valencian Community (Pativel), whose main objective is the protection and active conservation of the most valuable free coastal spaces and preserves more than 7,500 hectares of land in the three provinces. In addition to conservation, this plan aims to ensure the ecological and functional connectivity of the sea with the interior, avoid urban consolidation and urban barriers that damage the coastline and improve the quality of the built space to be more competitive with respect to new tourism demands. Pativel proposes the active conservation of more than 7,500 hectares of high environmental, territorial and landscape quality, distinguishing two main Agenda 21 Update Christine Betterton Jones