They discover a jewel of native flora and take care of it next to nation

2025-02-17 -

It is a perimeter of 59 kilometers of Chacay, a kind of shrub that grows only in a Calingasta sector. Personnel of the Ministry of Environment made the first technical visit to a green space with special characteristics to corroborate its status and protect it. It is a chacay forest, an endemic species that grows only in one place in the province. Gustavo Mercado, director of Native Forest, said it is located in a Cordilleran area of ??Calingasta and in the red conservation category so you can only enter the place to carry out research activities.

He met his existence for bibliography and satellite images several years ago. But, just now visited the place to verify its existence and perform field work. ?Environment had incorporated this Chacay forest into the Native Forest Forest Territorial Planning Program by the satellite images obtained from it and other bibliographic information, but so far it was never visited. Now, we made a technical visit to corroborate its vegetative status and arbitrate conservation measures, ?said Gustavo Mercado. On the visit, according to the official, it was found that this Chacay forest covers a perimeter of 59 kilometers at the foot of the calingastina mountain range, which is in good vegetative condition and that, despite the fact that it is a kind of shrubs, it is They found specimens that exceed 5 meters high. Mercado said that these conditions, together to other parameters, are requirements to enter the Native Forest Program and obtain national funds for conservation. ?Being an endemic forest, that is, species that grow in a single site and being within the native forests program, receives nation funds for conservation. It is in the red conservation category, that is, only admission is allowed to perform scientific tasks, said Mercado. The official added that with the funds received for conservation, the entire perimeter was closed with wiring, the roses were eliminated Mosquetas that were in this space and that threaten the health of the Chacay, and a small cabin was restored that will house the personnel of the Native Forest Directorate to travel periodically to perform field work and control the income of people outside this distribution. ?Entry to this forest is prohibited to carry out sports and recreational activities. And the sanctions for the people who violate this provision and attentive against their conservation are planned, ?said Mercado.