The environment is an invaluable asset that must be protected by each of the members of the institution.
The 10 percent of men over the age of 18 years, admitted to military service in the different units of the National Army, are intended to conduct tasks of the environment, receiving instruction with institutions to become environmental managers so that they promote the care and protection of the natural environment in the branch.
This is the case of Juan Camilo García, a young man from Bogotá, from the locality Ciudad Bolívar, who since the beginning of his military service has served as an environmental promoter in the Instruction, Training and Recurrent training Battalion BITER No.13, of the Fifth Division of the National Army.
Private Garcia conducts effective tasks in the preservation of the environment and in support of the work carried out in the nursery of the unit. He has been trained by officials of the Botanical Garden and the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Cundinamarca, CAR, institutions that work hand in hand with the National Army on different issues of plants preservation and the conservation of natural resources.
García, along with nine other young people, promotes good practices in the care and protection of the environment along with other colleagues in the Biter 13, a battalion that is in the locality of Usme, in the south of the city of Bogotá, where the Sumapaz paramo begins, which is the largest in the world.
The BITER 13 has become a leading military unit in the protection of the Sumapaz páramo; it is currently carrying out enlargement tasks to establish a megavivero (nursery) that permanently produces frailejones, in order to ensure the continuity of this and other páramos.
On World Environment Day, García assures that he will continue working as an environmental manager, feeling proud to be able to contribute to the operation carried out by the National Army for the recuperation of the Sumapaz paramo.
Source: Press - National Army
