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 News from Around Banderas Bay | April 2006 
Grupo Ecológico Water Fund for Lázaro Cárdenas Park
 PVNN
| | Parque Lázaro Cárdenas is slowly being strangled by the city, which stopped watering it last July. |
The Grupo Ecológico of Puerto Vallarta has started a water fund to keep Lázaro Cárdenas Park alive.
Three of Puerto Vallarta’s last four parks have already been destroyed to make way for parking garages. The fourth, Lázaro Cárdenas, is slowly being strangled by the city, which stopped watering it last July.
The park recently won a reprieve when the contractor who was scheduled to tear it out withdrew from the project, apparently because he failed to meet the requirements for an environmental impact report.
The city says it will find another contractor, but that process will buy time to further organize opposition to the destruction of the park.
The park provides a green refuge against the sun and a refuge for much bird life. The parking garage with which the city wants to replace it will not alleviate the city’s parking problem; rather it will add to the congestion in the area’s already clogged streets.
In the meantime the park must not be allowed to die of neglect. Volunteers from the Grupo Ecológico of Puerto Vallarta have been watering the park since January, using plastic jugs carried to the park by hand.
These volunteers also clean the park of trash and debris. An entire truckload of water can be purchased for $350 pesos. Two or three truck loads a week could preserve the park until the rains begin.
To that end, the Grupo Ecológico is asking for contributions to a $10,000 peso water fund that will pay the expenses of keeping the park alive while further efforts are made to save it permanently.
With water available, a local botanical garden has offered to install indigenous plants to beautify the park and serve as an example of the ecological variety of the area.
Contributions to the water fund, including checks on American banks, may be made out to the Grupo Ecológico and sent to: Water Fund, Grupo Ecológico of Puerto Vallarta, Hidalgo 529-C, Apto. Postal 142, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 48300.
For more information contact Sonia Contreras at muchotextil@yahoo.ca, or call [322] 293-0142. |
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