PRESS PRESS
Office of the Governor April 24, 2008
Toa Baja, Puerto Rico - Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila today signed an Executive Order establishing the Northeastern Ecological Corridor (NEC) to declare the mangrove nature reserve , coastal forests and wetlands located in the municipalities of Luquillo and Fajardo and form part of the Heritage program to acquire one hundred thousand one hundred thousand acres of land of high ecological value in a period of eight years.
"By signing this Order continue the Hundred Thousand Heritage Program to purchase, protect and preserve one hundred thousand acres of land. It also recognizes biodiversity natural systems found in the grounds of CEN, which include forests and coastal wetlands and mangroves, similar to those that were planted today. Also maintain the habitat of over forty critical elements, rare, endemic, vulnerable or endangered, including the Leatherback, which depend on the natural integrity of this area for their livelihoods, "said the Governor.
The Governor signed the order creating the CEN after participating in the planting of 900 trees in the coastal area of \u200b\u200bCabras Island National Park that will help prevent erosion suffered by the area and as part of the real changes that urges to protect the environment and conserve natural resources.
The Order signed today becomes a reality another Executive Order signed by the Governor in April 2007 that required the Planning Board to create the CEN, which is composed of 3.240 strings, including San Miguel farms I and II; The Pauline, in Luquillo, El Convento North and South, and the area of \u200b\u200bSeven Seas in Fajardo.
planting trees on Goat Island, which was attended by the Mayor of Toa Baja, Anibal Vega Borges, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Javier Velez Arocho, and the Director of National Parks Company, Ramon Luis Nieves, among others, is the top of the program activity Verdor 100x35 en la Semana del Planeta Tierra. La siembra incluye especies nativas y propias de la costa que resisten el salitre, como uva de playa, emajagüilla y mangle botón.
Además, de la siembra en Isla de Cabras, el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) junto a la empresa de biotecnología Amgen, en Juncos, iniciaron la siembra de 1,800 árboles en los predios de la misma y donaron cerca de 500 árboles adicionales entre empleados y ciudadanos que se dieron cita en dicha actividad.
A su vez, mañana el DRNA y la compañía Reckitt Benckiser (distribuidora de productos en las tiendas Walmart, que se unieron al DRNA en el programa Verdor Corporativo) sembrarán 25 trees at junction 17 of the express José De Diego, in Bayamon. In total the company will donate 500 trees to be planted in the PR-22 as part of a company program called Trees for Change to help promote the planting of 36 000 trees along the highway PR-22 which is part of project goals Greenery 100 x 35.
Hundred Thousand In Heritage Program, aims to acquire and protect 100 thousand acres of land of high ecological value in a period of eight years. To date they have acquired 6,026.9 chords and other 12,995.6 underway. In addition, the pending legislation submitted by the Governor, March 27 2007 for separating the 3% of bonds to purchase land of high ecological value.
As part of this program, the Company acquired Lighthouse Reserve and Cabezas de San Juan in Fajardo, were increased land including the Natural Reserve of Laguna Tortuguero Natural Reserve was created Punta Tuna in Maunabo, and signed an agreement with the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico to preserve 3.400 acres of the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Base, among others.
As for Greengrass 100 x 35 program, it aims at planting and forest conservation to develop greater environmental awareness among all Puerto Ricans, integrating them protection of natural resources. To date, 3,306,397 trees have been planted a total of four million that is to sow in this term.
The program also aims to provide food for wildlife, preserve rare species, prevent coastal erosion and greening. In turn, we seek to reach agreements with municipalities, private corporations and reforest highways.
Other measures promoted by this administration to protect the environment is the introduction of legislation to encourage the use of environmentally friendly equipment such as hybrid cars and equipment for solar power generation that are part of the new environmental policy to reduce oil dependence, the signature of two Executive Orders to public agencies to acquire equipment and products that save energy and to promote the construction and use of environmentally friendly buildings.
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