The National Armed Forces (FAN) reported on the start of a “reforestation campaign” in the Canaima, Yapacana and Caura national parks. The head of the Strategic Operational Command of the Armed Forces (Ceofan), General in Chief Domingo Hernández Lárez, said that these parks “have suffered environmental depredation by illegal mining.”
The National Armed Force (FAN) reported on the start of a “reforestation campaign” in the Canaima, Yapacana and Caura national parks.
The head of the Strategic Operational Command of the Armed Forces (Ceofan), General in Chief Domingo Hernandez Larezsaid this Friday, February 3, that these security and defense plans are carried out jointly with the Ministry of Water and the Ministry of Ecosocialism.
The military stressed that these parks “have suffered environmental depredation by illegal mining.”
The FAN highlighted thathe Canaima National Park is one of the 45 parks under the Special Security Regime where all types of mining activities are prohibited. The organization reiterated that it is deployed in tasks of destruction of illegal mining camps and structures that violate Venezuelan laws.
According to the military announcement, made through social networks, in the General Conservation Plan, “foreign species of the Acacia tree and Vetiver will be introduced, after studying the soils, in order to filter elemental mercury and allow rehabilitation.
This Friday, Ceofan also reported the arrest of two armed subjects “dedicated to the trafficking and smuggling of strategic material.”
In Bolívar state in patrol actions against illegal mining #FANB detains 2 armed subjects dedicated to trafficking and smuggling of strategic material. Venezuela is a State of law and justice! pic.twitter.com/4TrzC0oAg5
—G.J. Domingo Hernandez Larez (@dhernandezlarez) February 3, 2023
The organization Control Ciudadano stressed, in January of this year, that military operations in the Yapacana National Park, in the state of Amazonas, do not stop environmental destruction.
«The causes of the destruction and illegal activities in the Yapacana National Park are associated with the presence of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who lead the illegal mining business in southern Venezuela,” the NGO pointed out in a press release.
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