Guantánamo.- A group of specialists have prevented for a decade the occurrence of forest fires in the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, located in Guantánamo and considered as the largest and most complex within the Cuban System of Protected Areas.
Those actions are performed by specialists and technicians from the reserve, the core of biodiversity in the West Indies, declared the World Nature Heritage Web Site.
Specialists have modern extinguishing tools and means to guarantee the immediate response in case of fires, while the rest make use of traditional instruments.
The "Alejandro de Humboldt" National Park has high levels of endemism and conservation, covering much of the Toa Biosphere Reserve, and 2 percent of the world flora is represented in it.
Of the 16 vegetation types present in that area, among the most represented are the pines, highly vulnerable to fire, for the large volumes of dry material they accumulate, especially in the months of low rainfall.
