Camagüey is included in project for the integrated handling of coastal areas

Camagüey - A project of environmental conservation financed by the Program of United Nations for the Development (UNDP)-and approved for Cuba -, centers their actions in the protection and care of the natural resources of the coastal areas.

“Archipelagos of the South”, is the name of the plan that will look for mechanisms for its activation between the 20 and 24 in this month in the Beach Santa Lucía, during the National Shop of Training in Technical Participatives and Solution of Conflicts. In the event representatives will intervene of Ciego de Ávila, Camagüey and Granma, and the companies producers of these territories.

The coastal areas are vulnerable before the effects of the climatic change, experience the deterioration of the socioeconomic conditions of the populational establishments, and are victims of the deforestation of swamp forests and hidrographic basins.

With the application of the one referred program, is sought, by means of a regional focus, to integrate the different political, commercial and social actors that act on these areas of economic interest.

The purpose is to create five areas under the handling regime integrated to look for collective answers to the different ones problematic that are generated to the interior of those towns.

In fact, the most extensive region-and that is already built -, embraces five municipalities of the south of the counties Ciego de Ávila and Camagüey, in those that three marine protected areas are included: National Park Gardens of the Queen, Refuge of Fauna Macurije-Santa María, and Refuge of Fauna Keys of Ana María. When saying of José Martí Jomarrón, coordinator of the project for Camagüey, this is the first experience of the country of such a span.

The main conflicts of the referred area respond to the fishing of charismatic species for the tourist diving, the stealthy fishing of turtles, manatees and crocodiles, the hunt of jutías conginas-endemic species -, and the indiscriminate pruning.

The Provincial System of Protected Areas of the earth of the earthenjar, has seven spaces declared legally by the Executive Committee of the Council of Secretaries at the present time, shows of the indefatigable work of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment in Camagüey.

Among them: the already mentioned National Park Gardens of the Queen, the Fossil Forest of Najasa, the Refuge of Fauna of the Maximum River and the Ecological Reservation Lemon-Tuabaquey.

With the development of the program “Archipelagos of the South”, Cuba executes its adhesion to projects and international agreements that stimulate and demand the protection of the environment. (Arailaisy Rosabal García)