Thirteen park rangers and a biologist joined this Thursday to the plant of the Copo Provincial Park during an act headed by the governor of Santiago del Estero, Gerardo Zamorawho also inaugurated a new operational center in the place, delivered three trucks and three 0 km motorcycles for patrolling the local native forests.
The new staff joins the work to reinforce control and inspection tasks in “an investment to strengthen the care of the province’s natural resources,” said Zamora.
On behalf of the National Government, he transmitted his greetings, virtually, the vice president of the National Parks Administration (APN), Natalia Jauri, who highlighted the Governor’s political decision to invest in caring for the environment.
The provincial president thanked the support of the Nation, through the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development headed by Juan Cabandié.
“We have to take care of our natural resources and the possibility of eliminating carbon”through the equipment and the incorporation of suitable personnel to fight against illegal appropriation and deforestation, Zamora remarked.
Too He stressed that investments in this sense will allow Santiago del Estero to have in the coming months the most important fire hydrant plane in all of South America for the fight against large firesand that his administration places the provincial interior in a prominent place with the most important infrastructure works to bring electricity, water, roads, education, health and other services for the people of Santiago in every corner of the territory.
The president was accompanied during the ceremony by Lieutenant Governor Carlos Silva Neder; the Minister of Production, Miguel Mandrille; the general director of Forests and Fauna, Noelia Zanichelli and the mayor of the Copo National Park, Guillermo Carignano, who were received by the municipal commissioner of Los Pirpintos, Mario Vizgarra.
? Today is the 22nd anniversary of Copo National Park
? The Copo National Park is located in the province of Santiago del Estero, and was created in the year 2000.
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The general director of Forests and Fauna, Noelia Zanichelli, in dialogue with Télam, explained that “this inaugurated center is on Picada 7, the limit of the provincial park, which is almost 68 thousand hectares.”and stressed that through this “which will be multiple uses, and with the incorporation of rangers we will reinforce the control and permanent monitoring.”
He also explained that the Copo Provincial Park, together with the Provincial Reserve, are contiguous to the Copo National Park, only that “the first depend on the Directorate of Forests and Fauna and the second on the Ministry of Environment of the Nation. There are almost 94 thousand hectares between the park and the provincial reserve, while there are 116,000 hectares of the national park, they are contiguous, which is why most of the operations are carried out jointly, since, passing a Picada, you go in and out of one park to another, in the Copo department,” he commented.
With all this investment, The official said that they continue “betting on caring for the environment”, and highlighted the decision of “Governor Zamora who has valued and his commitment to the emission and capture of carbon and betting on the biodiversity of these areas, everything he does to the different species of flora and fauna.
In this way, he remarked that from the Province progress in “environmental care” and stressed that in Copo they also have the help of the local inhabitants, because “they are forests that have almost no human intervention, and that is what we want: to preserve those areas as they are.”
