Ecobreves – CUBA: Educational Expedition

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HAVANA, Mar 31 2003 (IPS) - Scientists will provide environmental education in the eastern Humboldt National Park to improve the living conditions of the residents of this important preserve of Antilles flora and fauna. The experts, convened by the Cuban group Nature and Man, will teach the local population about how to gather food without harming the ecosystem.

The project, with support from the non-governmental Dutch Committee for the Protection of Nature, includes studies of sustainable use of resources in the park, the largest and most complex of the Cuban System of Natural Protected Areas.

Within its 700 square km, the park holds the greatest plant density of the Cuban archipelago. It is the least explored area of the country and in its mountains, plateaus, rivers, plains and corral reefs there are 905 endemic flora species.