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Liberia ‘Green Community’ fair to be held
June 5
Liberia ‘Green Community’ fair to be held
June 5
(InfoWebPress) – Next June 5, Liberia will
host its Green Community Environmental Fair,
featuring an assortment of cultural and
environment-related activities.
The fair aims to promote the Las Morocochas
Biological Corridor and the environmental
education strategy proposed by the
Guanacaste Conservation Area (ACG)
management leadership. The ACG is the main
natural-resource protection institution in
the area.
“We will have different cultural activities,
painting and photography exhibits,
storytelling, theater, face paiting, a movie
forum, presentations and more,” said Ana
Laura Piedra, of ACG’s management leadership
and the Regional Biological Corridors
Program. “We want to be part of forming an
environmental and social responsibility
culture in Liberia.”
The event, open to the general public, will
be held in the Liberia Central Park and the
Antigua Gobernacion building from 8 a.m. to
6 p.m.
Fair activities include a celebration of
International Day of the Environment and
sessions with information about regional
biological corridors, particularly the Las
Morocochas Biological Corridor, which is a
new protected area. There will also be an
exchange of ideas between sustainable
producers and communities.
“Climate change as well as the irrational
exploitation of natural resources to satisfy
economic and consumerist demands from
society and the lack of involvement and
participation by people in activities that
help the environment, these are global
problems, which the province of Guanacaste
also suffers from and which are not letting
up,” said Piedra about the reasons for
putting together the Green Fair.
The Liberia Community Green Fair is being
organized by the Environmental Education
Strategy in coordination with the Biological
Corridors Program and is financed by the
small donations program. It is also
supported by the National University (UNA)
and the La Flor campus of EARTH University
in Liberia.
Also part of the fair will be exhibits by
small producers, artisans and groups leading
sustainable production projects, which will
have booths at the fair. There will be
folkloric music, green-themed music, and a
concert by Ambientemonos. Some artisans will
be selling crafts made with recycled
materials.
The Guanacaste Conservation Area encompasses
the Santa Rosa, Guanacaste and Rincón de la
Vieja national parks; the Horizontes Forest
Experiment Station; the Junquillal Bay
Wildlife Refuge; and a series of properties
that have been acquired to form a continuous
bloc of biodiversity in which some 230,000
species are estimated to live (65 percent of
all estimated species that Costa Rica
houses).
The ACG has 20 years of experience in
searching and consolidating a management
model based on the reality of the tropics
that would allow for perpetual preservation
of biodiversity by non-destructive means, by
the society at large. It’s one of 11
conservation areas in the country, all part
of the National Conservation Areas System (SINAC)
of the Ministry of the Environment.
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