HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 22 (ACN) Sanitation, cleaning and reforestation activities in coastal areas will take place Saturday throughout Cuba, as a tribute by the younger generations to the 26th of July, International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem.
Approved in 2015 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the date has been celebrated since then with the aim of raising awareness about the importance of mangroves as a unique, special and vulnerable ecosystem, and promoting solutions for their sustainable management, conservation and use.
The Cuban Youth Environmental Network (ReJAC) of the Youth Technical Brigades (BTJ) is calling out to children, teenagers and young people across the country, even those who live inland but near rivers, reservoirs and other watersheds and sub-basins.
“It will not be its scale but its contribution what will distinguish each mobilization,” Jeiller Carmona Brito, president of the National Council of the BTJs, told ACN.
“In these hard times of pandemic, when some keep trying to sow hatred, violence and despair, actions like these, intended to solve environmental problems, are a YES to life, the reaffirmation of a sacred commitment to Cuba and the future, and a tribute from today to the heroes and martyrs of the heroic deed of July 26, 1953,” he stressed.
Their effort will include planting mangroves along the entire southern coast of Cuba and the cleaning of rivers and tributaries, their mouths and coasts, among other actions.
Those who participate will be able to comment on their activities in #JuventudPorLosManglares, #ReJAC-BTJenAcción y #JóvenesTareaVida.
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