The Environment Minister of the City Council of Cantabria has demonstrated its commitment to collaboration with the Green Ring Forest Ethnobotanical Center-El Pendo and during his visit he announced that in the 2025 budgets there will be a nominal item of 113,000 euros for the development of different projects of the entity.
The Minister of Development, Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, Roberto Media, visited this morning the facilities of the Bosque del Anillo Verde-El Pendo Ethnobotanical Center, an infrastructure managed by the Nature and Man Foundation, located in the municipality of Camargo , and used for environmental dissemination and the planting of different native species which are subsequently used in reforestation work.
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Media, who toured its facilities accompanied by the general director of the Environment, Alberto Quijano; the mayor of Camargo, Diego Movellán; and by the director of the Foundation, Carlos Sánchez, has valued the work carried out by the entity for the development and dissemination of environmental programs, with which the Government of Cantabria “collaborates historically.”
«This Foundation is an example for all associations and entities that work for the environment in Cantabria and that is why we are going to continue collaborating with it,” Media assured, in relation to the next nominative item of 113,000 euros that the Ministry of the Environment will include in the 2025 budgets for the implementation of different projects in this matter. «A higher amount than the one that the Government of Cantabria», has explained.
In this sense, the counselor has assured that both the General Directorate of the Environment and the Environmental Research Center (CIMA) will continue to develop actions with the Foundation “especially so that our schoolchildren learn to live and coexist with the environment to improve it and not continue to deteriorate it”, a task, Media has assured, “difficult to carry out alone from the Administration.”
The counselor has highlighted the work that the Foundation does for the planting and conservation of native species in the nursery that they have located in these facilities and that serve to reforest all the forests in which they work, both in the Pasiega area, in the Green Belt of the Bay, and in the surroundings of the municipality of Camargo itself.
«Respect for the environment and improvement in the economy “They have to be one of our basic pillars and it is the basic pillar on which the department works,” said Media, while highlighting the need to continue collaborating with city councils, as is the case of Camargo, and with entities, such as Nature and Man Foundation, “to be able to bring this purpose to fruition.”
The mayor of Camargo thanked the councilor for his visit to the municipality and these facilities to “verify that The money invested in them has a multiplier effect«. Movellán has assured that the Foundation is located in a privileged environment, in a space where the Ethnobotanical Center and the interpretation center of the Alday Marshes are located, “two infrastructures that are going to be a catalyst for the newly named Costa Geopark. “Broken, and that we are going to value.”
For his part, the director of the Foundation has thanked the Department for its commitment and its collaboration with the entity’s project, especially with the production in its nursery of native plants such as oaks, beeches, yews, hollies and birches, among others. that serve «to enrich the reforestations we do and also for environmental recoveries in which we work.
He Green Ring Forest Ethnobotanical Center-El Pendo It is made up of a rustic building that is used as an informative space about the forests that can be found in the Green Belt. It also consists of a forest nursery of native plants and large green areas integrated within the El Pendo – Peñajorao Natural Area of Special Interest.