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"The community of El Soncoyo is on the main highway that runs from Santa Cruz
to Tamarindo. It’s just a row of houses along the road where some families that
are related to each other live.
The tree that the town is named after is now almost impossible to see in the
area. For many years, El Soncoyo was well known because the community burned
land to prepare it for agricultural crops. The flames got out of control and
ended up destroying the plains, hills and everything in them.
“It was a desolate environment,” recalled Stephanie Rodríguez, who lives there.
There were no trees, the hills were dead, and many cows didn’t survive the
droughts during those years. “As they say, you learn the hard way,” she added.
Five years ago, the community of El Soncoyo began to take action to reverse
what they had caused. They began to reforest the river basin that runs through
the farms, to prepare organic fertilizers to revive them, and to stop lighting
the fires that they themselves caused.
That’s why it’s now possible to see a flock of screeching parrots fly across
the sky and the shadow of the yellow hills cast on the green pastures that the
dry season hasn’t yet been able to dry."
Via
The Fixer April 12, 2023:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
