Morelia, Michoacán.- In order to slow climate change and take further action in favor of the environment, the City Council started the campaign “Morelia Te Quiero Verde” in the Loma de Santa María. With its actions in the urban area 80 thousand trees of species such as pines, ash and fruit trees will be planted.
The mayor, Raúl Morón in the company of the Secretary of the City Council, Humberto Arróniz Reyes, the rector of the UVAQ, Raúl Martínez Rubio, the elected building of Tecate, Baja California, Zulema Adams, the basketball player, Horacio Llamas, the state secretaries of Education, Alberto Frutis Solís and Environment, Climate Change and Territorial Development (Semaccdet), Ricardo Luna García, announced that once in Cabildo the measure with which commercial establishments reduce the use of plastics and disposables was approved eradicating them will take another step in favor of the environment with the Agreement for the Earth which will be announced in July.
He felt that the floods in the city in 2018 raised awareness of the care of the environment and not littering.
In this sense, Mayor Raúl Morón said that reforestaring and taking care of the environment is preserving lives, people and families, so he considered it important to generate a new culture of care and protection of the environment.
He appreciated the wide turnout of the government in expressing that a government should motivate citizen work to transcend.
In turn, the director of Environment, Alfonso Suárez López stated that planting a tree “is an act of love and commitment to life”, considering that most people want the best environmental conditions to live.
He reiterated that “Morelia Te Quiero Verde” was carried out in 100 sites of the city and detailed the same work of planting fruit trees in 65 colonies, as well as places such as Cerro del Punhuato, the CIMO Industrial Park and Fractions such as Villas del Pedregal with endemic species to have a total of 80 thousand trees planted in the urban spot.
Suárez López announced that in the rural area it will start on July 12 of the present with a goal of 200 thousand trees to be reforested.
Finally, the owner of Semaccdet, Ricardo Luna, was committed to working jointly with the Morelia City Council and protecting the Loma de Santa María from being fractionated for housing developments.
In this place located next to the flagpole 1,500 vines were previously made by the Parks and Gardens Directorate to plant native species such as pines and ash trees. After this, the municipal president Raúl Morón moved to another point of this Loma, areas close to the commercial complexes of Altozano, to continue with the promotion and execution of the actions of the campaign “Morelia Te Quiero Verde”.
In addition to visiting and reforesting a part affected by forest fires by forest fires, by the Mexican Association of the Construction Industry, A.C. (AMIC) and staff of the Secretariat of Administration.
