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Wooden fences: aesthetics, protection and validity for the home garden

Wooden fences continue to be one of the most chosen options to provide security and style to the outdoor spaces of the home. Their traditional design, with pointed or rounded ends, the warm color of the material and its natural integration with the green of the grass and flowers, make them a decorative resource that does not lose validity over time.

Invest in trees

Almost by definition, it is difficult to imagine that a city can function well thermally in summer when it accumulates temperature in the asphalt, has low soil permeability and an insufficient and uneven distribution of green. The repeated sequence consists of absorbing heat during the day and releasing it at night, a nightmare that the inhabitants of Buenos Aires go through every time a heat wave arrives, something so natural every summer.

More than 10,000 rural fires per year: the CPIA warns that Argentina needs a permanent prevention policy

The Forest Technical Commission of the Professional Council of Agronomic Engineering (CPIA) publicly outlined its position regarding the growing recurrence and severity of rural fires in Argentina, basing in a document the need to prioritize comprehensive prevention strategies in the country. The Technical Forestry Commission of the CPIA expresses, initially in the document, "its deep regret for the serious damage caused by the rural fires that are currently ravaging Argentine Patagonia", particularly in regions such as Northern Patagonia, Los Alerces National Park and other affected areas in the provinces of Chubut, Río Negro, Neuquén, La Pampa and Santa Cruz