Mayabeque, Cuba_ The national day of preservation of the mangroves continues and in the municipality of Güines there was a meeting to discuss on the importance of the role of these natural barriers in the protection of coasts and the ordering for sustainable management.

The person in charge of the Manglar Vivo project in the Agroforestry Enterprise, engineer Felipe Cárdenas, explained about the sowing of these bushes in the 87 kilometers of the south coast of this territory and the advantages of it for the population that resides in these proximities to minimize the effects of climate change.

The provincial coordinator of the Living Mangrove project, Iván Efraín Martínez Bordón, highlights the participation of the research centers and the population in this day.

"Among them the Environmental Agency, the Institute of Technologies, the Institute of Tropical Geography and the Institute of Meteorology, in addition the municipalities carry out activities aimed mainly at the population”.

In another moment of his statements, Martinez Bordón reported: "the act of closing the day will be in the municipality of Batabanó on the 28th, we will camp, exchange knowledge with the participation of girls and boys and the next day we will make a walk to where the remains of the scientist and rector in life of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Rosa Elena Simeon rest”.

"There will also be a mangrove planting in the area to which all the people of Batabanó and people who have been linked to this work are summoned."

The students of the Urban Pre-university Institute (IPU) Bernardo Juan Borrell, presented initiatives to promote the Life Task, and the work they do in events of scientific societies on the environment, taking into account the objectives for a sustainable development.

This center of middle high education is the only one in the province of Mayabeque associated with Unesco since 2012.

It is worth mentioning the inauguration of a sample consisting of eight gigantographies that reflect the work of the Doctor in Biological Sciences, Leda Menéndez Carrera, ecologist and Cuban researcher. She held the Order of Carlos J. Finlay, the Felipe Poey Prize and the condition of Founding Member of the Cuban Society of Botany.

Her hard work in favor of the preservation of these ecosystems made her worthy in 2012 of the most important award given by the Cuban Botanical Society, Julián Acuña, for her dedication to the study of mangroves, their ecology and diversity.

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