The "Coastal Resilience" project aims to strengthen and integrate disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in the socio-economic development plans of sectors and governments of coastal municipalities such as Chambas.

Moreover, although COVID-19 did not allow progress to be made as expected, in the intervention area of ​​Punta Alegre, a priority area of ​​the State Plan for Confronting Climate Change in Ciego de Ávila, actions aimed at reducing the vulnerability of natural and human systems are visible and increase resilience. Representatives of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Environment Agency arrived there to evaluate the first results of the project.

The rehabilitation of more than 20 hectares of mangrove forests and the consolidation of local food systems are among the main results of the international Coastal Resilience project in Punta Alegre, in the municipality of Chambas, one of the four intervention sites in the country

On his farm “La Salina”, the producer Jorge Ariel Ferrer Buchillón practices assisted natural regeneration of the mangrove

Management of invasive exotic species in established plantations and natural forests (extraction and economic use) of 15 ha of Marabú in the Pozo Dulce site for charcoal production and 12 ha of Algarrobo de la India and Leucaena for formwork, parlet and other wood applications

"Coastal Resilience" allows the management of the natural regeneration of the coastal ecosystem with the planting of red, prieto, yana and patabán mangroves

Rehabilitation of the mangrove swamp to protect the coastal strip, reduce saline intrusion, also prevent soil erosion and preserve marine ecosystems

The maintenance of the ecological passes allows the improvement of the hydric flow of the ecosystem

As it passed through the Punta Alegre fishing community, Hurricane Irma severely affected the mangrove ecosystem