Cuba’s Most Beautiful Forests Are at Risk

There are places that defy description: they are revered. Alejandro de Humboldt National Park is one of them. There, in these forests, nature remains untamed. It lives on, untamed, as if the island had just been born.

Also those who have walked among its mountains, crossed its rivers, and seen its unique species understand that Cuba holds a precious treasure in the eastern part of the archipelago. A silent, ancient treasure that deserves respect.

Today, this natural sanctuary, which has withstood centuries of natural transformation. It faces a danger born of haste, misguided need, and a lack of limits: the uncontrolled exploitation of nickel.

We cannot allow immediate wealth to make us forget the value of the eternal. Because what is destroyed there cannot be recovered. Every tree uprooted, every bit of soil wounded, every ecosystem fragmented, is a definitive loss for the nation and the planet.

Today more than ever, Cuba needs an active conscience, ethical vigilance. And a collective will to rise up in defense of this natural treasure.

Let it be heard loud and clear, from the mountains to the cities: neither economic urgency, nor foreign interests, nor fleeting decisions can outweigh the life that inhabits these forests.

That is why it is necessary to create protection campaigns for a firm, conscious, and dignified defense. So that no government, no transnational corporation, no one, comes to destroy Cuba’s most beautiful forests.

By: Miguel David Bruzón Hernández

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