Brava: Biflores Association announces participation in exchange in the Canary Islands

In an interview with Inforpress, the Biflores Association's terrestrial conservation technician also said that the trip is already scheduled for the 28th of this month and will continue until the 15th of November.

According to the same source, Brava has a lot of potential and the association has been carrying out several works in partnership with local livestock breeders and the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAA).

“We already have initial studies that show us the capacity to capture water in the fogs in the high areas of Brava, but the Canary Islands have a project that is already more advanced, with more sophisticated technologies and that is why we thought it would be good to absorb some of the their experiences”, he said.

This official also explained that the project to capture water from fog is because one of the biggest difficulties in Cape Verde, both in terms of agriculture and conservation of endemic species, is the issue of drought and lack of water.

In this situation, he stressed that if an alternative is found in both water capture and storage, they will be able to provide a water resource for different parameters.

“We work with agricultural perimeter irrigation and have always had the agro-forestry methodology, where there are different types of stealth, non-stealth and endemic tree vegetation”, he explained.

In this way, he also reinforced that it is precisely to give more resistance to the national ecosystem and create more habitat for both terrestrial fauna and flora, and thus be able to make agricultural and livestock activities profitable in local communities.