Santiago. The Sierra Plan initiated a reforestation and forest restructuring program that combines multiple endemic and native species with a high water storage capacity and high survival potential.
The innovative project has been welcomed with great enthusiasm by the agricultural entrepreneur Pablo Eulogio Cruz, owner of the farm where the launch took place in the community of Yerba Buena, Los Corrales, in the municipality of San José de las Matas.
The farm has an area of 1,680 tasks on the banks of the Inoa River.
The activity was recently held, and the opening remarks were given by Inmaculada Adames, executive vice president of Plan Sierra, who pointed out that in four years Pablo Eulogio Cruz’s farm will be a model of coverage that will expand environmental services to the beneficiaries of the Inoa River, downstream from the farm, which includes the intake of the San José de las Matas aqueduct and will provide extensive environmental services.
Services can be objectively quantified to compensate the owner under Law 44-18 on Payments for Environmental Services.
The aforementioned farm was home to the José Cruz ranch, a cattle farm that maintains 28 percent of riparian forests preserved on the banks of the Inoa River in streams and ravines.
The mayor of San José de las Matas, Alfredo Reyes Estévez; the person in charge of the municipal district of El Rubio, Ibanova Ramos; the president of the assembly, Edwin Manuel, as well as representatives of the livestock sector, technicians and directors of the Plan Sierra, participated in the presentation of the project.
Landowner José Cruz said that for him and his family it is a privilege that their land serves as an example of what must be done to restore La Sierra’s capacity to store water, capture carbon dioxide, produce oxygen, host wildlife that delights residents and visitors, and also generates jobs through planting.
