The Company of Flora and Fauna’s workers of Guantanamo carry out cultivation and conservation activities in the Yunque (Anvil) of Baracoa, a high point declared as a National Monument by its magnificent landscape values.
The workers of Flora and Fauna Enterprise of Guantanamo carry out cultivation and conservation activities in the Yunque (Anvil) of Baracoa, a peak declared as a National Monument by its magnificent landscape values.
Rider Lobaina Duran, head of the Technical Department of Conservation in the Company, explained that during this year they will plant new species and create stone barriers to stop erosion of soil caused by water and the wind in the elevation that as it was sighted by Admiral Christopher Columbus made him to note in his journal "... there is a high and square mountain that resembled an Island (...)".
Besides conservation experts train local people in the use and management of the site, one of the most attractive natural environments of Baracoa.
Lobaina Duran commented on the studies conducted to know the life cycle and the number of farcimen yunquensis, a 20 mm endemic land snail in the place, characterized by its pink color, essential in the biological equilibrium of many species.
Also, they investigate the dietary habits of the Eleutherodactylus acmonis, one of the 52 frogs in the country, with a view to future captive breeding programs.
He added that in the area there are 12 Cuban amphibians, two of which are local endemic; frogs in all cases registered in the Red Book of Threatened Vertebrates, published in Spain.
He also said that conservation actions includes study of wild Sabina, one of 24 plants scattered in the top of the "truncated pyramid", about which no information has been reported, even more threatened.
The Yunque of Baracoa was declared a National Monument on December 25, 1979, it is distinguished by its natural, historical and cultural environmental characteristics, and is part of Cuchillas del Toa Biosphere Reserve in which it was classified in the category of Outstanding Natural Element, for its natural landscape values.
Source: Venceremos
Translation: Liubis Balart Martínez