Bryan Huntley and Esperança da Costa spoke of the 30th anniversary of the "soap", a Botanical Science Development Program in Africa Oceana, which encompassed 10 countries, and in which Angola participated under the leadership of the current Vice President of the Republic.
The academic arrived in Angola in 1970, and since that date that has been dedicated to studies on the Biomes of the Forests of Cabinda, the forests of Miombo, Mupanda, Luanda, Cangandala and the Iona Desert.
"It was a great pleasure, during the last 55 years, to meet Angola very well and work with Angolan students, today new scientists," he said, quoted by Angop.
Huntley anticipated a positive future for young botanists and economists in the country, asking government support for the development of national park, of great importance for the conservation of the animal population.
He recalled that Angola is rich, compared to other African countries, because it has from wet forests in Cabinda to the Namibe Desert, as well as rare species such as Palanca Negra and Welwitschia Mirabilis.
As an example, it said that 20 years ago, it was thought that the black palanca would be extinguished, but as the work of experts was a discovery in Cangandala, betting on reproduction and achieving an average of 300 or more species to grow every year.
At the time, the academic offered the vice president of the Republic the book “Ecology of Angola”, written over the past three years. With over 500 pages and hundreds of graphics and photos, the work, directed to Angolan university students and already translated into Portuguese, should hit the newsstands soon.
