Environment symposium in Havana

Cuba: Experts from Cuba, Ecuador, the USA and Panama will take part in the International Symposium on Culture, Science and Nature, to be held from January 19 to 21 in the Convent of St. Francis of Assis in this capital.

The event will be attended by Ecuadorian and Panamanian specialists and representatives from the US- Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, President of the Antonio Nuñez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Humanity said. She pointed out that deliberations will be dedicated to Nuñez Jimenez’s multifaceted life and work.

Antonio Nuñez Jimenez founded in 1940 the Cuban Speleological Society, in 1962 headed the organizing commission of Cuba’s Science Academy and was later Deputy Cultural Minister.

The program includes topics as the current environmental crisis, the local sustainable development that defends the biocultural diversity, science, culture, technology and education for a new environmental conscience.

Havana, Prensa Latina