Havana-. Cuba celebrates World Environment Day today, focusing this year on land restoration, confronting desertification and resilience to the effects of drought, official sources reported.
Experts from the island’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (Citma) anticipated in a recent press conference that these issues are on their agenda due to the close relationship they have with the loss of biodiversity and the deterioration of ecosystems on a global level.
In this context, scientists from the Antillean country pay particular attention to soil rehabilitation due to its impact on reducing the consequences of climate change and guaranteeing food security, high priority issues in Cuba.
According to Citma directors, the World Environment Day conference calls for debate on these issues with the holding of theoretical events, planting of trees throughout the national territory and screening of audiovisuals on the subject.
Likewise, they promoted public good messages in the media and virtual platforms, in addition to carrying out participatory activities in the communities, which is articulated with a broad global platform in favor of the environment.
On the Antillean island, the 2024 celebration seeks to raise awareness about the need to restore ecosystems to stop land degradation processes and recover their response capacities in the face of extreme drought events, they explained.
In this sense, -said the organizers of the day-, the aim is to explain the importance of protecting ecosystems and the goods and services they provide to society, as well as the care that all social actors must take with the natural environment. that they inhabit.
As a culmination of the activities for the environmental date, a national central event will take place, this June 5, in the eastern province of Las Tunas that showed relevant results in the work and control of the implementation of the National Environmental Strategy.
