Cuba and its system of protected areas

Stopping the effects of climate change is the best inspiration for the promotion of a culture of participation, knowledge, and commitment by all to caring for the environment. A culture that would also allow meeting the needs of modern society without jeopardizing the future of coming generations and without extinguishing or overloading the main natural resources on which the very existence of human kind depend.

With its increasingly progressive trend, this is the guide followed by the thousands of workers and dozens of executives integrated into Cuba's National System of Protected Areas, a mechanism that articulates the UN Environment Program: sustainable development is one that improves the quality of human life without overcharging the capacity of the ecosystems it is based upon.

Acting locally, the main laboratory for transformations, is the most expeditious stage for better social management, and can also be polemic and controversial, reflecting as it does on the balance between man and nature.

Cuban communities are actively participating in the hands-on management plans for different ecosystems; preserving and improving the habitat of species important for biodiversity; adopting new sources