Echo park » preservation of environment. http://echopark.net Echo Park since March 1998. Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:33:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Ecopark ONE FOR ALL http://echopark.net/historic-preservation/ecopark-one-for-all.html http://echopark.net/historic-preservation/ecopark-one-for-all.html#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:13:01 +0000 admin http://echopark.net/?p=514 Read more »]]> Thalia S. Morales
Special prensa.com
I visited Panama Ecoparque project of the Rotary Club a couple of months ago. This project is painted in a perfect way.
But is not finished, indeed, have not even begun, but it is not because the Rotary Club has not loved is because they have not yet approved the project.

WHAT IS THE PROJECT?

The Interoceanic Region Authority (ARI) under a lease granted in August 2004 to the Rotary Club Panama Nordeste (CRPND), supported by the Pan American Association for the Conservation (GAIA Panama) and other organizations, an area of forest 372 hectares of humid tropical, located on the west side of the Panama Canal, to develop a recreation area and public education that benefits the community.

According to Nestor Correa, leader of the project, the aim is to develop an ecological park in the area west of the Panama Canal, through which a process of education and entertainment for the Panamanian population, while contributing to the conservation and preservation of environment and biodiversity.

The specific objectives are:

• Protect and maximize existing resources
• Highlight the historical and cultural development
• Contribute to economic development and social development
• Creating new options for tourism
• Increase the number of jobs for the Panamanian population
• Reaching the expansion of the metropolitan area and the western
• Protect the watershed of the Panama Canal and the natural resources

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