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Native Plants Preservation: Everybody’s Responsibility

Date: (17/8/2009)

Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas

UANL School of Biological Sciences statistics indicates that 69% of vegetable species are introduced in Nuevo Leon.

The best we can do for preserving our ecosystem is to plant Nuevo Leon's native trees.

By Juan Reyna Loa

One of the main Nuevo Leon society’s natural mistakes –as recently it was published- is the lack of knowledge for growing plants which are no native of this region.

That is why Nuevo Leon’s vegetation is suffering from irreversible changes, being invaded and out of place by other plants’ importation towards Nuevo Leon.

The UANL School of Biological Sciences (FCB, Spanish abbreviation) is promoting consciousness programs for community in order to preserve Monterrey citizens’ natural flora.

“We have been promoting this kind of initiatives in Mexico for six years, and books about Ornamental Native Flora from Nuevo Leon have been published. I participated as the author,” said Glafiro Alanis, FCB professor.

The statistics in which doctor Alanis has been work are amazing: 69% of ornamental plants are introduced in Nuevo Leon; it is a big number in which northeast vegetative space is invaded.

Furthermore, Doctor explained that plants such as oaks, pepper-tree “anacahuitas” and mesquites, among other ones, they are which remain in our ecosystem because they are from our state, and those that are not from this region are so vulnerable in winter.

On the other hand, climate change has contributed -in last years- to do not have intense frosts in winter, so, foreign species are growing in Monterrey green areas without being affected.

“We need more native trees in order to make our city greener,” said biologist.

The world qualifying standards in order to have a city with a good level of green life are 0.00621 square miles per inhabitant.

“In research work that we made in 2004, our city used to have 0.00242 square miles per inhabitant and that is dangerous because it has been decreased, unfortunately, it is because of quickly development of population,” said Alanis.

However, professor says that people is more conscious than last years, because there is an improvement that has been gotten with different organizations’ help, which are focused on environment sustainability. He said he trust this tendency helps green areas’ losses in Monterrey Metropolitan Area.