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President Calderón Announces Distribution of Book on Environmental Education
 Presidencia de la República
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President Felipe Calderón announced the start of a massive effort to take environmental education to the country's elementary and secondary schools, through the distribution of a book called, And What About the Environment? Problems in Mexico and the World, and reported that today, the Diario Oficial de la Federación published the decrees establishing Cañón del Usumacinta in Tabasco and Boquerón deTonalá in Oaxaca as natural protected areas.
As part of the event entitled Environmental Education to Live Better, after UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner announced that Mexico will be the international venue for the celebration of World Environment Day in 2009, the President added that on June 5, Mexico will organize a world day that will involve action and commitment as well as reflection and analysis.
President Felipe Calderón declared that this distinction confirms Mexico’s commitment to conserving natural resources and overcoming the most pressing environmental challenge in the 21st century.
He reported that from now onwards, Federal Government and all Mexicans will probably regard the organization of the World Environment Day in Mexico as a crucial event.
On the subject of the book, And What about the Environment? Problems in Mexico and the World, which will be distributed among teachers, President Calderón said that this is a massive effort being made by Federal Government to take the environmental issue to all of Mexico’s elementary and junior high schools, beginning with teachers from fourth, fifth and sixth grade of elementary school and followed by first, second and third grade of secondary school, so that they can introduce Mexican children and youth to environmental education.
"I realize that there will be no environmental awareness or culture of respect unless it is instilled in children," the President explained.
The president went on to say that two decrees on nature reserves were published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación today, which will enable two natural areas in Mexico to be protected. Cañón de Usumacinta, with over 46,000 hectares, located in Tabasco, and Boquerón de Tonalá, in Oaxaca, which has nearly 4,000 hectares.
As a result of this measure, Mexico is incorporating an additional 50,000 hectares, making a total of 166 protected natural areas, equivalent to 12% of the country's total area.
"This means that in 2008 we will achieve 43% of the goal we had set for the six years of my government regarding protected natural areas; in other words, in two years, we will have achieved nearly half our six-year goal," he said. |
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