Participants in the landing of Quinoles in Isla de la Juventud greet World Environment Day. Author: Roberto Diaz Martorell

NUEVA GERONA, Island of Youth. “Today, the first two hectares of pine trees were planted in this Special Municipality to leave Quinoles as part of the First Caribbean Film and Environment Festival and in honor of World Environment Day.

Convened by the Isla Verde organizing committee chaired by Jorge Perugorria, a famous Cuban actor, hundreds of people, including pioneers, actors, activists, local, national and foreign media, left about 1,500 seedlings of Isla’s endemic pine tree underground. Youth.

Jorge Perugorria, President of Isla Verde, planted a tree marking the beginning of the Cinema Forest on Isla de la Juventud. Photo: Roberto Diaz Martorell

Eleonora Insunza, President of the Green Film Network, who made most of the documentaries screened from May 31st to date at the Caribe cinema in Nueva Gerona available to Isla Verde, expressed the urgent need to continue acting for nature and described the Forest of Cinema as a space of will and hope.

“ The presence of the pine forest of the cinema in Isla de la Juventud inspires and invites all of us to join this adventure, because each tree planted will reduce 30 kg of carbon (CO2) emissions, and thus we will return to the territory the costs associated with event. in that sense,” he said.

The selected area is located nine kilometers from the capital of the municipality, in the center of the highway, so it is accessible for maintenance, care and continuity of planting operations.

Pine tree planting in Bosque del Cine on Isla de la Juventud. Photo: Roberto Diaz Martorell

After intense days of conferences, dialogues, debates, workshops, community actions and demonstrations of audio-visual materials related to the environment, the Isla Verde Festival concludes today, Monday, June 5, with a concert by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez in the area of ​​the Presidio Modelo National Monument at 19:00

Source: Juventud Rebelde