The Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and Water and President of the Biodiversity Foundation, Josep Puxeu, participated this morning in the awards ceremony of the BioDiverCiudad programme together with the British primatologist Jane Goodall during an event that took place at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs together with the Jane Goodall Foundation promote these awards whose objective is to raise awareness among citizens of the importance of urban biodiversity, the measures to promote its protection, as well as to promote the creation and development of environmental micro-projects.

Puxeu and Goodall held a brief meeting minutes before the start of the event at the Royal Botanical Garden. The Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and Water highlighted the research work with primates that Goodall has been carrying out since 1977 on the African continent and said that “those of us who unconsciously spoil this land and that we are obliged to preserve feel represented in it”.

The event was also attended by the president of the Biodiversity Foundation, Ana Leiva, the director of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid, Gonzalo Nieto, as well as the president of the Jane Goodall Institute Spain, Ferrán Guallar.