Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Photos in the Subway

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CARACAS, Feb 4 2006 (IPS) - The photography exhibition “Mega-Diverse Venezuela” can be viewed on the walls of the central Caracas subway station Bellas Artes. There are images of the jungles , flowers from the tropical Andes, beaches of fine sand from the Caribbean — all in Venezuela, but also landscapes from Bolivia, Brazil, China and Congo.

The show is organized by the non-governmental Conservation International (CI) and the Mexican cement giant Cemex.

“We were looking to publicize among the greatest possible number of Caracas residents — half a million go through this station each day — information about the importance of preserving species of plants and animals,” CI spokesman Franklin Rojas told Tierramérica.

The photos highlight areas where there are many threatened species, like the tropical Andes, and wild areas, like the Venezuelan Amazon, where more than 70 percent of the original ecosystems are intact