The three municipalities on the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde – Ribeira Grande, Paúl and Porto Novo – are working together to present an application to UNESCO for the island to be named a World Natural Heritage Site.
Various manifestations of support for the initiative, which is aimed at seeing Santo Antão declared a World Natural Heritage Site, are making their way through social networks.
One of the messages to be found reads, “we thanks the mayors of Paúl, António Aleixo Martins, Ribeira Grande, Orlando Delgado, and Porto Novo, Rosa Rocha, for their forward thinking, their boldness and for joining hands to put the island first. This is the right path for Santo Antão.”
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