Under the premise to join together the crowds in one voice to protect the planet the Festival of the Earth will be held, an event that will take place at the Cupaynicú Botanical Garden, in Granma, on March 8 and 9.
The event will gather institutions, community projects, and specialties related in different ways to the land, is an invitation to remember where we come from as a species, referred to the Cuban News Agency, Yunalvis Hernández Pérez, coordinator of the meeting.
Cuba represents an unspoiled platform where the new version of aware and responsible man will be launch, so required in a planet where many practices against the environment are done, she stressed, and that is one of the main objectives of the Festival.
The meeting took place for the first time in November 2018, at the National Botanical Garden, and constituted a space to understand where we are as a species, and what our behavior should be in the face of current challenges.
Granma is a province where there is an unique connection with the origins, especially from history, said Hernández Pérez, because of that and its natural beauty the province was chosen for the celebration.
The main venue of the event will be the Cupaynicú Botanical Garden, located in Los Mameyes rural district, in Guisa, and considered the third most important in Cuba.
Located in the Sierra Maestra foothills, this institution, inaugurated in 1981, exhibits 15 botanical areas well preserved, and more than 120 varieties of threatened plants from all the east of the country.
The organizing committee of the Festival of the Earth expects to carry out four editions this year, which would take place about every three months in Granma, Cienfuegos, Pinar del Río and Havana, successively.
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