"Country without trees, it is poor. City without trees, it is unhealthy. Land without trees, it calls for little rain and bears violent fruits" José Martí

In the Villalón Park of the Vedado locality, in the capital's Plaza de la Revolución municipality, 13 seedlings were planted this Sunday, mainly white oak and Neem tree, with good resistance.

Convened by the Cuba Verde environmental project, children and adolescents from the community and members of the Cuban Electric Motorcycle Club (MEC) participated in the planting, and it was possible thanks to the species provided by the Mipyme Jardinería Real.

According to Tribuna La Habana, Cuba Verde was born in 2019 to denounce the indiscriminate felling of numerous specimens in different areas of Vedado. A record made showed the felling of about 900 trees.

Speaking to this medium, Alexandra Lleonart specified that in the first planting, carried out a year ago, 28 postures of species such as vomitel, white oak and Neem were planted, some of which were vandalized and others managed to survive.

Photo: Raquel Sierra

Lleonart said that Cuba Verde aspires to become an Environmental Development Project not only to intervene in the Villalón Park, located a few blocks from the Havana boardwalk, but also in another area that requires it in the municipality of Plaza de la Revolución, from of existing scientific results.

This Sunday's event, on the occasion of World Environment Day, was initially scheduled for June 5 and had to be suspended due to the rains of the previous week.

For his part, Michel Collado, MEC communicator, commented that from the use of a means of transport that does not emit gases into the atmosphere, they already express an environmental vocation, to which they give continuity with their participation both in this type of planting as in beach cleanups, which they carry out when retiring from their social activities on the coasts.