Regional centre may monitor areas of environmental risks

Luanda  - The monitoring and environmental assessment, identification of areas of risk, as well as integrated management and use of soils in sensible zones are some of the tasks to be executed by the future regional centre of studies of soils and climate changes (RSSC), ANGOP has learnt.

The centre will be created within the Southern Africa Development Community Countries (SADC) and according to technicians that participated in a meeting in Luanda, it will work to fight poverty and famine, migration of species, integrated management of hydric resources and training of cadres.

They have pledged to make a survey and mapping out of the resources, zones of risk, identification of illnesses sensible to climatic alteration, to implement a plan of environmental management, as well as a programme of modelling of environmental parameters.

In universities and higher institutes of the region it will be done projects of investigation with identified themes, meant to promote scientific research and give a response to natural calamities,  through the creation of laboratories of reference.

Technicians linked to higher teaching, agriculture and science proposed that the future centre study the reasons for the decrease  of the pelagic species, the fixation of desert's kinds, as well as to create laboratories for measuring the streams of the rivers and sub-centres with hydrologic, meteorological stations with system of early warning in each country of the region.

Participants debated matters such as Climate Changes and Use of Soils the Angola's Cases, Climate Changes and Use of Soils Taking into Account the Different Regions of the World, among other linked to the usage of soils.