The hotel for pollinating bees in Valle del Aburrá

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Ana María Roldán – Environmental Deputy Director of Valle de Aburrá

Alfonso López Durán – Zootechnician

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BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Saturday, February 26, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). This place awaits daily more than 2,250 solitary bees looking for a place to rest and shelter. This initiative takes place in the Aburrá Valley, where 250 species have been identified.

“Protect the species so that they can continue to circulate in the territory without being affected, but we also want to strengthen the pollination that they develop in the territory,” explained Ana María Roldán, environmental deputy director of the Aburrá Valley.

The measure seeks to protect and strengthen the life of these small animals that, according to experts, are already on the verge of extinction.

“Bees in general are in danger of extinction due to various activities carried out by man, such as deforestation, the indiscriminate use of agrochemicals, the extension of a single crop and forest fires,” said Alfonso López Durán, zootechnician.

The bee hotels -generally built with dry pineapples, small paper or cardboard tubes, perforated wood or boxes filled with dry branches- allow to house various species without stings and provide them with a space to lay their eggs, as an alternative to the lack of habitat by the culture of removing dry trees.

“With these hotels we are strengthening the territories where bees can be found, which are currently very devastated, are being threatened and in this way we can protect in some way that these species continue to exist,” said Ana María Roldán, environmental deputy director of Valle de will get bored

As Einstein said: “without bees, there is no pollination, no grass, no animals, no men”. In reference to the role that bees play in ecosystems.

“We know that the situations that afflict the planet is the decrease in food that we have, and one of those causes of the decrease in food is the lack of natural pollination,” added Ana María Roldán, environmental deputy director of the Aburrá Valley.

For this reason, today hundreds of people unite with the purpose of defending these little giants.

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The quality of the air in the Aburrá Valley worsens - Medellín - Colombia

The quality of the air in Medellín and in the other nine municipalities of the Aburrá Valley is going through the worst moment, since 19 of the 22 stations that measure this are in orange on this Friday afternoon, February 25.

These are the stations located throughout the metropolitan area that have this color that means that it affects sensitive groups such as older adults and children.

Only the San Cristóbal, Belén and Santa Elena stations have a yellow color.

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“The contamination levels are the product of the burning of biomass, that is, of fires in the northern region of Colombia and Venezuela.”, explained Juan David Palacio, director of the Valle de Aburrá Metropolitan Area.

The environmental entity announced that it will meet with the mayors of this region to assess whether restrictive measures would be taken for private vehicles and motorcycles due to the considerable increase in pollution.

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These are the stations with orange color in the afternoon of this Friday.

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Due to the increase in contaminating particles, it is estimated that in the next few days, at least, the station located in the House of Justice of the municipality of Itagüí will reach red, which means that it is dangerous for the entire population.

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“The Metropolitan Area of ​​Valle de Aburrá will continue in the period of analysis, taking into account the fires that are occurring in various parts of the country”, detailed the entity.

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Environmental contingency plan in the Aburrá Valley, what does it consist of? - Medellin Colombia

Medellin and its metropolitan area prepare for the first air quality episode of the two that the region crosses in the year, caused by the transition between dry and rainy seasons, which generates low cloudiness that prevents pollutants from dispersing correctly in the atmosphere.

The Aburrá Valley Metropolitan Area (AMVA), environmental authority in the region, has a series of tools to permanently monitor atmospheric conditions and thus make decisions in this regard.

One of the main ones is the Early Warning System (SIATA), which has 22 stations that measure the Air Quality Index (ICA) in the Aburrá Valley.

This system, which is free access to monitor 24/7, it has ranges of PM2.5 contaminant material levels which, depending on their severity, have a color scale, as follows:

• Good (green): 0 to 12 micrograms per cubic meter.
• Moderate (yellow): 13 to 37 micrograms per cubic meter.
• Harmful to sensitive groups (orange): 38 to 55 micrograms per cubic meter.
• Harmful (red): 56 to 150 micrograms per cubic meter.
• Extremely harmful (purple): 151 micrograms per cubic meter of air and above.

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Did you know that there is the Comprehensive Plan for Air Quality Management – PIGECA, which aims to drastically reduce polluting emissions. Know the importance of SIATA within the Plan and how it contributes to its fulfillment.#SustainableFuture #Air pic.twitter.com/cbivJaMoXv

— Aburrá Valley Metropolitan Area (@Areametropol) January 17, 2022

So when is an environmental alert decreed? The AMVA explained that since 2016 there is a Comprehensive Air Quality Management Plan (Pigeca)which contains short, medium and long-term strategies to improve air quality by 2030.

Said Plan contains the Operational Plan to deal with Atmospheric Pollution Episodes (POECA), which is an immediate response tool in the event of a contingency.

This protocol has three states: prevention, alert and emergencywhich are activated according to the ranges of pollutants in the air and the exposure times recorded by the stations that measure the quality of the Siata’s air.

In other words, depending on the levels of air pollution recorded by the stations, the environmental authority can take measures such as: the environmental peak and plate, restriction for freight vehicles, suspension of traffic charges, among others.

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The measurements will be in accordance with the proportions of the episode, in its fair measure and according to what is established by the Poeca

Juan David Palacio, director of the AMVA, also explained that “in a unanimous vote, the Metropolitan Health Council approved the Valle de Aburrá Metropolitan Area to make effective and timely decisions -based on the management of the pandemic- during these atmospheric episodes, related to the execution of strategies that are not included in the POECA and whose purpose is to preserve the health of metropolitan inhabitants, if necessary.

For the 2022 episode, which will begin on February 14initially there will be no restrictive measures beyond those already implemented, such as the bill and plate.

Although it is not ruled out that since February 21 there restriction of movement of cargo transport and dump trucks to 4 digitsfrom 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and for these same vehicles with models less than or equal to 2009, with the same plate numbers, the restriction will be from 5 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

“The measures will be in accordance with the proportions of the episode, in its fair measure and in accordance with what is established by the Poeca,” added the director of the Metropolitan Area, who assured that any change in the measures will be informed in a timely manner to the citizenry. .

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