CAF supports Panama’s goal of reforesting a million hectares

The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) participated in the III Great National Day for the Reforestation of Panama, which took place at the Camino de Cruces National Park, in support of the planting of seedlings within the framework of the Alliance for a Million Hectares program and is intertwined with the State Program for the Restoration of Watersheds (Procuencas) also supported by the multilateral body.

"The sowing of these seedlings in this historical site, which sealed the fate of Panama as a transisthmian route and is now part of the forests required by the canal basin to ensure a supply of enough fresh water, necessary for the operation of the channel and vital for the consumption by Panamanians, reaffirms CAF's commitment to the Government of Panama and its environmental initiatives," said Susana Pinilla, Representative Director of CAF in the isthmian nation.

The Camino de Cruces National Park has a surface of 4,000 hectares. It is a corridor that conserves stretches of the old eponymous colonial road, by which merchandise was transported from the South American Pacific to the Panamanian Caribbean for shipping to Spain. Today, Camino de Cruces connects the Soberanía and Metropolitano national parks and conserves tropical forest ecosystems and species.

The III Great National Day for the Reforestation of Panama was carried out across 23 sites, using more than 85,000 seedlings, working across more than 105 hectares, and enjoying the participation of more than 20,000 volunteers, including all levels of security assets, ministries, authorities, managers and members of the Alliance for a Million, including CAF.