2 manuals will guide environmental management
2 manuals will guide environmental management
Municipality of Cuenca and UDA elaborate a study that will define actions to protect the environment.
The University of Azuay (UDA) and the Municipality of Cuenca will present the Environmental Law Manual for Parochial Autonomous Decentralized Governments (GAD).
They will do so in conjunction with the document called "Route of Intervention to Articulate Environmental Management in the Autonomous Decentralized Government (GAD) cantonal of Cuenca".
The latter contains detailed information on the clogging of streams or natural cuses, the causes that cause this and, likewise, the problems they generate. Among the inconveniences are, for example: change of vegetation cover, modifications in runoff, introduction of exotic species and contamination, especially, by agricultural activities.
Deforestation
Also other issues such as deforestation due to the advance of the agricultural frontier, forest fires and urban fauna. The latter mainly related to domestic pets and their rights. And the most common problems generated by abandoned pets are identified. They are: affectation to the physical integrity of people, loss of semovientes goods, transmission of diseases and contamination of public space.
For Luis Tacuri, community leaders in the El Valle parish, among the main drawbacks in this area are precisely the clogging of streams and ditches, and the animals that live in neglect. Tacuri assured that the water channels are blocked in their great majority for the construction of houses and to make fillings in order to extend land for crops or other activities related to agriculture. "It is quite common to see that packs are looking for what to eat, and in the highlands they attack the cattle and also enter the corrals where birds and guinea pigs are ...", he said.
Forest
For Román Chillogalli, inhabitant of the Quingeo parish, another of the problems that worry the inhabitants of the rural areas are the constant forest fires. He recalled that in August of this year a scourge of this type razed approximately eight hectares (ha) of shrubs and eucalyptus trees in the community of Pirancho. "It is necessary that in each parish there be a group of people who are prepared and have even the minimum equipment to be able to put out the forest fires when they are just beginning ...", he said.
Chillogalli agreed that most of these fires are products of agricultural burns, whose purpose is the removal of weeds to prepare the land for cultivation or regeneration of pastures.