The words of the historian Fernando Crespo was a balsam for the females. He touched with a clear and poetical language the roots of the patriotic accomplishments of the Camagüeyan woman for centuries, with quotes by José Martí and fragments of a letter of Ignacio Agramonte to his idolized Amalia Simoni.
Better date could not be chosen so that investors, executors and representatives of other institutions, linked of a way or other to the megaproject to contract formally and in writing their constructive commitments designed with several stages to spread during the years 2016, 2017 and 2018.
The first term marks an important date: June 5th, World Day of the Environment. This implies that, without wasting time, it will start, during this week, this effort to crown the set of ideas embraced by the scientific community, with precedents that go back to October 25th, 1814, date of the first intention of creating here a botanical garden. In the 80s in the Sierra de Maraguán and in the years 2003 and 2014 in the IPA Álvaro Barba”.
A LOOK TO THE PROJECT
It is not ventured to speak about the potentialities of the future botanical garden, of the closeness with the city and to the system of public transport, of its access to the routes of national communication for the central highway this one and the South Beltway.
Such are the cases of the farms of forestry development “Cinco Puntos”, the agroforestry of medicinal plants, vivarium “Las Ruinas”, a private one located in the Central Highway East and the Beltway, and the proper institution of the polytechnical education.
In its conception, the possibility of linking it with the recreational complex “El Lago de los Sueños” has been born in mind, without disdaining the feasible possibility of promoting with the IPA the environmental education and the development of teaching disciplines, associated with the gardening, the flower growing and the forestry.
So, for the garden to play its roll it must maintain a strict control of what is introduced and later evolution, identify everything what is exhibit, the predominance for the exchange of seeds, the scientific character of the auxiliary collections and be provided with the center of botanical papers.
FROM NOW UNTIL JUNE 5th
Between the days that pass until June 5 there must remain concluded the signaling of the existing species, the points of entry and accessibility of the botanical areas, shape of these, creation and starting of the area of spread of the vivarium, explanatory places, herbarium, and other places, plus the training of the personnel that will be working there.
The estimate of financing of the investors in the first stage is 2 487 600 pesos and a component in Cuban Convertible Currency of 46 000, in accordance with the adjustments realized with provincial and municipal Communales Company, Education, Commerce, the provincial direction of Economy and Planning and of the project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) fund of the United Nations for the development.
Rudy Montero Mata, director of the Unit of Environment in Camagüey belonging to the territorial delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is very enthusiast with this dynamic program that, according to his words, “is going to contribute to the environmental culture of our inhabitants and of those that will visit us” and will pay homage to the memory of a prestigious Camagüeyan botanist and Julián Acuña Galé 1900-1973.
Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez
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