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Ministry of Environment promotes sanitation in Gran Sabana

Written by Yasmin Sanguino
Saturday, 06 September 2008

Image "Achieving this day conservationist looking primarily eliminate the problem of accumulation of rubbish in the access roads as well as create awareness among locals and visitors about the need to safeguard the sites of this natural paradise Ciudad Bolivar Among .- nine on Tuesday and Friday twelve current month's regional bureau of the Ministry of Environment will be conducting the day's sanitation and solid waste collection and scrap called "A Gift to Canaima", which involved more than three hundred people between volunteers and representatives of various institutions in a coordinated manner who made this laudable work not only to create awareness, but also to pay tribute to the 46 anniversary of the legal existence of such a nature reserve.

The details were provided on Friday by the holder of the Ministry of Environment in the state of Bolivar Hugo Nunez accompanied by the coordinator of this programme Luisa Heredia, who stressed on the choice of the holiday season as a propitious date for such activity because of the influx of Visitors to Canaima National Park, then that was scheduled one week of continuous sanitation activities and the recovery path that leads to that place where involved some 230 volunteers and 70 officials from various agencies and sectors of the entity.

Situation studied

According to the statement by Hugo Nunez, conducting this operation came after a technical assessment carried out by officials of this body in the road axis stretching from the Stone of La Virgen de Uairén to St. Helena, where he observed the existence large amounts of wastes of various kinds, launched mainly by drivers travelling on this route, this was planned by mobilizing a task force and machinery to that area not only for their recovery, but also to get citizenship activities awareness and reflection on this problem.

As this area an environmental reserve of great importance pointed the declarant was considered appropriate to install a series of ecological caravans along the road where officials said such agencies as Inparques, National Guard, environmentalists and indigenous organizations will be devoted to informative and educational work of people travelling by this route in an attempt to raise awareness about the need to conserve spaces recovered this week.

To do so, the official continued, will be resorted to the use of a number of elements, delivering leaflets and booklets; addition to the placement of a series of advertisements and billboards with messages promoting environmental conservation work.

Other activities

Moreover said Hugo Nunez during the coming weeks will develop some outreach and discussion of the contents of the Law on Forests, which will take these days as the headquarters locations in Caicara del Orinoco, butterflies, Ciudad Guayana, and the municipality Upata Hurt.

This Information Day said the spokesman institutional seeks to bring timber sectors, cooperatives and other activities associated with the product with an article which among other things includes very drastic changes that obviously have generated some concern in citizenship.

Educating the miner

Finally stressed representatives of the Ministry of Environment in the entity that despite not having a direct impact with regard to the problem of mining from this unit is still working on that part of education to members of this sector, as well as recovery in some areas by some 29 cooperatives who have been working in critical cases as the Caroní River, which was already studying the site, were recovered several sites and will soon be initiating the final phase to minimize and restore this important watershed.

Integral Project

After activating a series of construction projects landfills in several municipalities of the entity said Hugo Nunez with the completion of the day sanitation is stipulated in agreement with the municipality and other sectors that make life in this locality, installation of an interim ditch, where it later will be built on landfill to ensure the proper use and management of solid wastes in Santa Elena de Uairén.

These initiatives reflect guidelines of the central government in this entity have so far benefited Tumeremo and Upata where among others are already operating landfill sites and close to its final conclusion.

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