>Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 00:45:33 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > >MEXICAN BIOLOGIST SAYS CUBA SETS EXAMPLE IN ECOSYSTEMS MANAGEMENT > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >Prensa Latina - DIRECT FROM CUBA > >MEXICAN BIOLOGIST SAYS CUBA SETS EXAMPLE IN ECOSYSTEMS MANAGEMENT > >BY SISSI ARENCIBIA > >MEXICO, Nov 17 (PL) Mexican biologist Gonzalo Merenis asserted that Cuba is >an example of natural resource preservation and integral handling of coastal >ecosystems. > >Merenis, member of the Amigos de Sian Kaan Civil Association, from Quitana >Roo State, told Prensa Latina that the Island has increasing interest in >providing proper coastal treatment and sustainable environmental >development. > >He emphasized the integrity of Cuban policies in this sense and pronounced >for applying this same experience in Sian Kaan, a zone declared a Biosphere >Reserve in 1986 and part of the world's second most important coral reef >barriers. > >The scientist recalled that Sian Kaan, a region where -according to Mayan >legend- the sky begins, is on Quintano Roo State's central coast and one of >Mexico's largest protected areas. > >This zone (650,000 hectares) and Guanacabibes' Biosphere Reserve (100,000 >hectare), in Cuba's westernmost province are twins, he said. > >Merenis commented that both reserves have been supporting each other for >over five years, since Guanacabibes has done environmental protection work >very useful for his organization, dedicated to promote the values of nature. > >The Cuban reserve has enormous biological wealth and its greatest >socio-economic importance lies in the forest, regarded as the one with most >autochthonous value in Cuba, with 14 local endemic species, of 500 >registered, he noted. > >When asked about strategies the Mexican states should carry out to attain >sustainable development, he answered that the environment demands urgent >attention, since there are many zones whose ecosystems have been greatly >damaged. > >There is the need for "a deeply analyzed strategy including all sectors and >human settlements living in a coastal zone to preserve the sea ecology," the >biologist observed. > >Merines said "the fact that the sea and coast, in many cases, share >elements, causes problems when activities such as oil extraction, cutting of >mangrove trees, tourism, destruction of coral, and fishing are carried out." >In most of the cases, these actions damage the ecosystems, bio-diversity, >and even human safety, the scientist upheld. > >He maintained that it is necessary to be sensitive to understand that a >nation's sustainable development demands collective and joint actions, >because preservation is "each human being's priority and responsibility." >DIG/CCS > >(c) 2000 Prensa Latina, NY Transfer News. All rights reserved. > > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================================= > >nytcari-11.19.00-00:45:05-31760 > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
