PINAR DEL RIO, August 22 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, UPECI) – Specialists working for the Cuban government find that the planting of shade trees in Cuban beaches lags so far behind the level planned as to constitute a crisis.

Previous plans were primarily designed to substitute noxious casuarinas by palms and sea grape trees, both for shade and to prevent beach erosion. The specialists consider the beaches east of Havana, including Varadero, Cuba’s best known beach, as the most critical areas.

Other sources point out the deteriorating ecological condition of Cuban beaches, especially the vanishing vegetation which, they said, protects the sand from erosion.

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