Knowledge contests, specialized conferences and lectures, and sanitation tasks in communities and care centers are actions promoted by the scientific community and the people of Guantanamo to celebrate World Environment Day, next June 5.
The MSC. Alexander Fernández Velázquez, specialist of the territorial delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), stressed that the program of activities for the anniversary responds to the global campaign against the adverse effects of pollution by dumping plastics in lakes, rivers, seas and the environment.
The WED’s main objective is to raise awareness among different audiences about the urgency of restoring ecosystems to guarantee the sustainable development of the territory, with the premise of living in harmony with nature.
The expert reported that the provincial act for the important date will take place at the beginning of next June, and at the ceremony the winners of the contests convened by the CITMA agencies will be awarded, which will grant territorial recognition to 10 entities with outstanding implementation of environmental strategies in the fulfillment of their respective corporate objectives.
He highlighted that Guantanamo is today at the forefront of the Cuban provinces with the largest number of Areas Initiated in Sustainable Land Management (MST), a distinction conferred by the country’s Environment Agency and the World Environment Agency of the UN.
This initiative is aimed at sustainably managing the land, reducing degradation, increasing productive capacity, promoting its goods and services, and mitigating the effects of drought and salinity in agricultural areas of the Guantanamo Valley and the southern coastal strip of the territory.
On June 7, 2022, lots one and three of the Hatibonico Ecological Reserve (protected area located west of Guantánamo Bay), were declared with the aforementioned category, as a result of the application of Project 1 of Operational Program 15 (OP -fifteen).
In December 2017, the Eliomar Noa Moreira Basic Cooperative Production Unit, from the community Los Cerezos, in the mountainous municipality Imías, was one of the first of its kind in Cuba to receive the certificate, along with Finca Tierra Brava, of Pinar del Rio.
This condition guarantees agricultural and forestry producers direct access to financial incentives granted by the National Soil Conservation and Improvement Program Fund, the Credit and Commerce Bank, the National Insurance Company and the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources.
