translated from Spanish: Deputies ask to make efforts to preserve the Cosmos Urban Forest as a Heritage of the City

Morelia, Michoacán.- In ordinary session, the local Congress urged the City Council of Morelia, to make the necessary steps to preserve as Heritage of the City the Cosmos Urban Forest, and that it be given in possession to the citizens inhabitants of the Cosmos Colony.
The point of agreement promoted by the deputy president of the Board of Directors Yarabí Ávila González, and approved by the members of the 74th Legislature as an urgent and obvious resolution, highlights the need to preserve the green areas of the City of Morelia.
During the presentation of the point of agreement Ávila González highlighted that the City of Morelia, has every day fewer large areas of green areas, which serve as lungs for the city.
Currently the area of green areas per inhabitant of the City of Morelia corresponds to 2.6 square meters, while the recommendation of the World Health Organization is 9 to 12 square meters per person; that is, the city lacks 72% of green areas that ensure the quality of life of the inhabitants, he said.
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In particular, the urban cosmos forest represents one of the few green lungs that the city retains, and its disappearance would cause a high concentration in pollution levels, causing at the same time an increase in respiratory diseases in the population, and thus would have to generate excessive spending on public policies in the field of health. Stressed.
Likewise, the legislator added that the disappearance of this space would increase the expansion of the heat island that the city of Morelia has become, thus contributing to climate change and the consequences that this causes.
Similarly, the cosmos urban forest is a refuge for various species of birds, butterflies and trees, in addition to being a natural water collector, by infiltrating rainwater and recharging aquifers, which provides the vital liquid to the inhabitants of the area.
In that sense, he called for closing ranks with morelian society in favor of the conservation and rescue of the environment, as well as the health of all Michoacans.

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