The Governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Valdespresented this Wednesday morning a program called “Renacer Iberá”, which contemplates an investment of 400 million pesos to recover the Esteros del Iberá area, native vegetation and wildlife affected by fires and drought.
In the Yellow room of the Government House, the president of Corrientes announced that 200 million are immediate resources that will be allocated to the Iberá Committee to begin the reconstruction and the rest will go to the Aguará Center to care for wild animals.
Regarding the environmental catastrophe caused by the fires, he expressed that “it is the biggest blow” that the province had and said that it greatly affected “our native forests and our fauna.”
We will allocate $400 million, through the Renacer Iberá program, to begin the recovery of the fauna, flora and infrastructure of our great destination.
The fire and the drought affected almost 200,000 hectares of the Iberá Park, so this plan aims at its reconstruction. pic.twitter.com/A8J3tznWEw
– Gustavo Valdés (@gustavovaldesok) February 23, 2022
“All the portals (of the Iberá marshes) had problems with the fire,” he said, adding that “this drought has never been experienced” and then announced that a “plan aimed at recovery” was drawn up.
In relation to the 200 million pesos that will be allocated to the “Aguará Wildlife Conservation Center”, he said that “it is doing an incredible job” with the affected animals.
On the other hand, he anticipated that they will seek “resources from national and international organizations to recover this natural heritage of the Argentines and the world”.
“I fully trust that this catastrophe will unite us and allow us to have clear goals for the future, all together. Only in this way are we going to rebuild nature, look to the future together, and this is the first step for Iberá to be reborn,” he concluded.
For his part, the Senator Sergio Flina, coordinator of the Iberá CommitteeHe said that the fire “destroyed what the tourist comes to look for, nature.”
After highlighting the importance of the program, he pointed out that “we have to recover the capacity of our natural resources” and stressed the importance of the Aguará Center “which is receiving 100 animals per month.”
In the same vein, it was expressed Minister of Tourism of Corrientes, Sebastián Slobayenwho assured about the Iberá Wetlands that “more than a tourist proposal, it is a development proposal, a way of thinking about the environment”.
“It is essential to think about the day after,” Slobayen said about the balance of the fires that have already affected 40 percent of the Iberá National Parkas calculated by the Rewilding Argentina foundation, which is developing a reintroduction program for native species that have become extinct in the area.
