San Jose, April 28 (Prensa Latina) The morpho butterfly is Costa Rica’s 18th national symbol after lawmakers today adopted such a declaration at the last extraordinary session of the current 2018-2022 legislature, which ends on the 30th to have.
The approved text states that the Ministry of Environment and Energy will ensure the conservation and proper management of the Morpho Helenor butterflies present on the national territory, while the Costa Rican Institute of Tourism will promote their image so that it is known both nationally and publicly is International.
Likewise, he continues, the Higher Education Council, in coordination with the Ministry of Public Education, can include in their educational programs the teaching of this declaration and its meaning in the various sectors of society.
The declaration empowers state institutions, local corporations, non-governmental organizations, and public and private companies to develop and support initiatives to promote trade, exhibition, export, use of the image, and derived economic activities related to the Morpho butterfly.
The morpho butterfly, the masquerades, the coffee and the sloth are the four national symbols approved by MPs in the current 2018-2022 legislature.
The list of 18 is completed by the National Coat of Arms, the Flag, the Guaria Morada, the Guanacaste Tree, the Yigüirro, the National Anthem, the Carreta, the White-Tailed Deer, the Marimba, the Torch of Independence, the Crestones of the Park Nacional Chirripó, des Manatí, the pre-Columbian indigenous stone spheres and the National Theater.
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