Around 100 volunteers from different organizations and companies gathered on Saturday morning in order to plant 84 trees of 12 different native species in La Sabana Metropolitan Park. This was the first planting day in 2019, the last year of intervention of the rearrangement project baptized as “Una Nueva Sabana”. The initiative aims to reach the goal of 5,000 new trees, established at the beginning of the project.
On this last day, two types of trees of a native species that previously did not exist in the park were planted: the Brazil or Brasilito. This accounts for a total of 236 different native species planted in the Metropolitan Park since the first planting day in 2011.
Armando Soto, Scotiabank technical coordinator for the “Una Nueva Sabana” project explained that
in the planting days we try to include new tree species to increase the diversity of flora and fauna in the park. The two types of trees planted have been in nursery development for four years. This is a tree of enormous ecological importance thanks to its natural tolerance to sandy, sterile and salt-laden soils near the beaches, it also keeps its green and fresh foliage throughout the year.”
This 2019, Scotiabank and the Costa Rican Institute of Sports and Recreation (ICODER) will conclude the rearrangement project. The last of nine years of intervention in the park started in March with the work of replacing damaged or sick trees.