Cuba Increases Reforestation
To Protect Watersheds
HAVANA - The Cuban government has
developed a plan to reforest the banks of
reservoirs and banks of rivers and streams
as part of measures taken to protect the
watersheds, a local specialist said here
Tuesday.
According to engineer Arsenio Renda from the
Forest Research Institute, the forest
fringes are being increased at the banks of
rivers, streams and reservoirs with the
purpose to protect the country's water
resources.
In Cuba there are 632 river basins, with
storage capacity of three million cubic
meters.
Renda added that the forest fringes are the
vital link between the use of the land in
the basin and the system of water currents
or the body of water.
Citing the Cauto River Basin, the largest in
Cuba and located in the east of the island,
as an example, Renda said more than 93
percent of the shores of its 19 reservoirs
and nearly 92 of the banks of several rivers
and streams were reforested.
Cuba has a forest cover of 25.7 percent and
has ranked as the leader in Latin America of
forest growth for the last 50 years. |
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