The issue of money to maintain Guyana’s eco-park, Iwokrama, was raised by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo during separate meetings with non-resident envoys from Australia and Germany, GINA said yesterday.
The Australian High Commissioner and German Ambassador paid courtesy calls on the Prime Minister on Wednesday at his office at the Ministry of the Presidency’s Complex.
Last year, GINA said that the Prime Minister had plugged for financial support for Iwokrama when he addressed a luncheon held by diplomats at Herdmanston House. He had said that the million acre “green lungs” of Guyana has been made a patrimony of humanity, to pursue studies in bio-diversity and preservation of our eco-system.
GINA said that the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation has cut back on services due to a lack of financing from patrons and donors, which resulted in the Prime Minister’s appeal.
Recently under the aegis of Natural Resources Minister, Raphael Trotman, a committee was established to look into the future of Iwokrama.
The committee is expected to brief cabinet on the way forward.
The one million acres in the centre of the country was set aside for the project in 1989 by the late President Desmond Hoyte.
