Bedolla starts reforestation day 2023

Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán.- After starting the 2023 reforestation day in the protected hill of Tariaqueri, Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla announced that he will historically increase the resource of the Forestry Commission (Cofom), to produce more than 10 million trees in the entity and plant them in the 2024 season.
He also stressed that the protection of protected natural areas will double to go from 84,000 in 2023, to 165,000 in 2024 and add more than 240,000 hectares throughout the state.
“There will be no shortage of trees to reforest next year; and we are going to increase the protected natural areas, form the State Forest Guard and reinforce satellite surveillance to detect the change of land use and that the complaint is automatically put in the Prosecutor’s Office and the Environmental Prosecutor’s Office, “he stressed.
All this, he stressed that as part of the actions to mitigate climate change that has suffered lately.
Prior to the planting of one of the trees, the state governor recognized the work of the 800 brigadistas who he stressed, have had important achievements by showing a reduction of hectares affected by forest fires despite the fact that the season extended two months.
The Secretary of the Environment, Alejandro Méndez López, completed that as part of the green agenda in Michoacán, there is the recovery of hydrological basins to guarantee the supply of water, so it will be sought that the main areas of aquifer recharge are the first to be decreed as protected natural reserves.
Rosendo Caro Gómez, head of the Forestry Commission, indicated that the season of the 2023 Reforestation Campaign started in this Tzintzuntzan property where one thousand 500 Michoacan Pinus and 500 magueys will be established for agroforestry development.
Local deputies, brigadistas and people from surrounding communities were present.
Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla. /Gob. Mich

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