Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Protecting a Refuge and Park

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CARACAS, Mar 3 2002 (IPS) - The Ministry of Environment, the FUDENA organization and the residents of the coastal state of Falcón, in northwest Venezuela, have drawn up an environmental management plan to recover the Cuare-Morrocoy region. The area suffers environmental problems, despite the demarcations of the Cuare Wildlife Refuge and the Morrocoy National Park, due to poor solid waste management and the lack of an integrated system to process sewage.

The three-year plan covers those two problems and includes initiatives to develop tourism, clean up the urban settlements in protected areas, and track the environmental impacts on the Tocuyo River watershed.