He went to the banks for help to keep paying his employees’ salaries, he said, before launching a cry for help on social media.
On farmland nearby, his employees had planted more than 70,000 specimens from 37 species of native plants, and Gomez was able to pay the salaries in May and June from the sales.So far, his botanical paradise is surviving, he says, “in the midst of the chaos of deforestation, degradation of ecosystems, global warming and the extinction of native species.”
There is a lot to admire, and maintain, in the Quindio park: rare orchids, bromeliads, laurels, aquatic and medicinal plants, but also a geology and soil museum, an insect zoo, a butterfly garden, a reference library, an auditorium, and a movie theater. Botanist Alberto Gomez walks at the botanical garden in Quindio, Colombia on July 6, 2020. – When the pandemic broke out in the second most biodiverse country in the world, botanist Alberto Gomez made the botanical garden he founded more than forty years ago, his home. “The symphony begins and I get up,” he said.As president of the National Network of Botanical Gardens of Colombia, Gomez said he feels an enormous weight of responsibility.
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