Santa Cruz: Environmental Education Centre launches environmental awareness campaign
newspaper Inforpress · 05/06/2025
Pedra Badejo, 5 June (Inforpress) – The Santa Cruz Environmental Education Centre, in the interior of Santiago, today launched an environmental awareness campaign, aimed at encouraging more sustainable and responsible behaviour towards the environment.
Under the slogan “Santa Cruz mas bunitu” (“a more beautiful Santa Cruz”), the campaign is part of World Environment Day, celebrated today under the theme “Beat plastic pollution”.
Speaking to Inforpress, the coordinator of the Santa Cruz Environmental Education Centre said that the campaign aims to alert the population to the importance of preserving urban and natural spaces, through local outreach and environmental education.
The initiative, which starts today in Achada Fazenda and will run through several parts of the municipality, including the centre of the town of Pedra Badejo and the Cancelo area, will be taken to other communities throughout the year, according to the same source.
The campaign, according to Arline Garcia, aims to involve citizens, schools, civil society organisations and other local partners in joint action for a cleaner, greener and healthier municipality.
She added that the campaign will also be an opportunity to strengthen the Santa Cruz community’s commitment to the principles of environmental education, promoting awareness, a change in attitudes and respect for the common good.
On the occasion, the same source said that, since this year’s observance focuses on the fight against plastic pollution, the institution will hold an open conversation on this issue in the northern part of the municipality of Santa Cruz.
As she explained, the open conversation will draw attention to plastic pollution, considering that Santa Cruz has seven agricultural streams that have been carrying rubbish to the sea, especially plastic, a product that has already contaminated water, food and air, harming public health.
She also recalled that, according to studies, it is the sea that has been most contaminated by plastic and other waste.
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