Contribution in the mitigation of climate change for the forest heritage of the Integral Enterprise Forest of Matanzas, Cuba
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Although the Cuban natural forests are in their majority degraded product of the product of the man’s incidence on the same ones, the improvement and/or enrichment of these is intensified, as well as the establishment of plantations that increase its existence and diminish the lacking areas of this resource, which is managed in its majority, for the Integral Forest Enterprise (EFI) belonging to the Ministry of the Agriculture. Multiple they are the intentions or objectives that pursue this Entities with it, but the given handling is not always the most appropriate, impacting in that don’t have a really positive contribution for the reduction of the reinforcement of the effect greenhouse and to the stabilization of the climatic change. In this sense the carbon is retained by the forest patrimony of the EFI Matanzas, which is located in the equal province names and that it extends its action radio in the north and center of these territories.
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