Researchers at the Centre for Environmental Engineering and Biodiversity, Ciba, based in the Avileño municipality of Morón, confess that the lack of technological means as a result of the iron fist imperial blockade prevents more precise measurements, reduces the agility of the processes and makes the work more complex.

International journals undermine the validity of Ciba’s research because it does not use state-of-the-art technology in laboratory experiments and analysis; to this must be added the abusive costs of publishing, which are impossible for Cuban institutions to pay.

The lack of resources makes it impossible to reproduce a greater number of plants to re-establish the vegetation on the coastal dunes and replace invasive species in the hotel gardens of the Jardines del Rey tourist destination.

However, in rustic conditions, thousands of plants native to coastal ecosystems have been conceived and subsequently planted on the sand mounds of the northern keys of Avila, with the aim of strengthening these structures, which are essential to reduce the impacts of natural disasters and climate change.

The researchers also agreed that another consequence of this hostile policy is the lack of fuel to travel to different work areas.

Despite these negatives, Ciba continues to provide scientific-technical services in the business sector, carries out actions in different areas to increase the capacity to respond to climate change and is involved in the characterisation of ecosystems as part of territorial, sectoral and international projects.