Mayor Verónica Delgadillo García announced that Guadalajara will be the “Greenest City in Mexico” by announcing the Strategic Plan for Planting, Maintaining, and Monitoring Urban Trees and Restoring Public Spaces. Nearly 20,000 trees will be planted in the coming months, of which 1,000 will be in the Historic Center.
“We want a more resilient Guadalajara, a more sustainable Guadalajara, and a greener Guadalajara. Among the benefits of having a greener city is that we reduce heat islands, those spaces where high temperatures are generated and can cause heat exhaustion and even take people’s lives.”
Cleaning up the Mololoa River with Low-Carbon Concrete from Cemex
She mentioned that 1,700 trees will be planted in areas where the concrete will break down or in drainage ditches that have been empty for a long time. The trees take between 8 and 10 years to develop, ensuring that they provide environmental benefits from the outset.
The mayor indicated that the urban action plan includes: planting trees, green corridors on the city’s avenues, reforestation in neighborhoods, including the eastern zone, restoration of public spaces, monitoring and watering planted trees, processing forest waste, and promoting tree adoption campaigns and the production of native trees in nurseries to ensure greater survival.
In front of the Rotunda of Illustrious Jalisco Residents, accompanied by businesspeople from the Historic Center, representatives of Reforestamos México and the Arbor Day Foundation, as well as public officials, the president of Guadalajara planted an ash tree, which she named “Guardian,” as a symbolic kickoff of the Strategic Tree Plan for the City.
“It symbolically kicks off with the planting of this beautiful ash tree here in front of the Rotunda of Illustrious Jalisco Residents, replacing a Galeana tree, a tree that was already sick and posed a risk to citizens.”
Nearly 1,000 ash trees will be planted in the city’s Historic Center. These trees are ideal for not obscuring the visibility of businesses, but also provide significant ecological benefits as shade generators.
As part of the kickoff, some flagstones were removed in front of the Capuchinas Church on Contreras Street in Medellín to open up 20 new spaces for planting the same number of myrtle trees.
During the kickoff, Gabriela López Damián, a representative of the Arbor Day Foundation, presented the president with the Tree Cities of the World flag, which recognized Guadalajara as a Tree City for the sixth consecutive year.
Of the 20,000 trees to be planted, 1,000 will be in the Historic Center, 7,300 in green corridors, 4,700 in parks and sports facilities, 3,500 on sidewalks through neighborhood adoption, and 3,500 in eastern Guadalajara.
Regarding the consolidation of green corridors, the objective is to connect urban forests, ecosystems, and habitats. The following avenues will be renovated:
- Juan Pablo II Causeway
- Avenue of the Americas
- 8 de Julio Avenue
- Lázaro Cárdenas Causeway
- López Mateos Avenue-Division del Norte Ring Road
- Independencia Causeway
- Ignacio L. Vallarta-Juárez Avenue
- Revolución Avenue
- Cristóbal Colón Avenue-Federalismo Causeway
- Patria Avenue
- Agustín Yáñez-Washington Ring Road
- Manuel Gómez Morín Ring Road
- Hidalgo-República Avenue
- Plutarco Elías Calles-San Rafael Avenue
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