{"id":1482,"date":"2023-05-31T15:39:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T13:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/the-carl-faust-foundation-participated-in-the-tribute-to-eric-ragnar-sventenius-organized-by-the-cabildo-de-gran-canaria\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T13:39:38","slug":"the-carl-faust-foundation-participated-in-the-tribute-to-eric-ragnar-sventenius-organized-by-the-cabildo-de-gran-canaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/the-carl-faust-foundation-participated-in-the-tribute-to-eric-ragnar-sventenius-organized-by-the-cabildo-de-gran-canaria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Carl Faust Foundation participated in the tribute to Eric Ragnar Sventenius organized by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left to right: In\u00e9s Jim\u00e9nez, Crist\u00f2fol Jord\u00e0, Antonio Morales, Julia P\u00e9rez, Juli Caujap\u00e9 and Arnoldo Santos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Last May 22, the tribute to the founder of the Jard\u00edn Bot\u00e1nico de Viera y Clavijo took place on the 50th anniversary of his death<\/h4>\n

Eric Ragnar Sventenius was the Swedish botanist who founded the Jard\u00edn Bot\u00e1nico Viera y Clavijo and was also its first director<\/h5>\n

“The impact that the work of Sventenius has had on the Island went beyond the mere collection and care of our natural heritage. It was a stimulus that coincided with the first ‘green revolution’ of Gran Canaria, when the recovery of the forest crown began after centuries of overexploitation, parallel to the implementation by the Cabildo of the construction of the network of dams and numerous works to stop erosion<\/em>“, said the president of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales.<\/p>\n

In\u00e9s Jim\u00e9nez Mart\u00edn, vice-president and councilor for the Environment of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, took part in the event, which was held in the Botanical Garden itself; Crist\u00f2fol Jord\u00e0, president of the Carl Faust Foundation, manager of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden; Antonio Morales M\u00e9ndez, president of the Cabildo; Julia P\u00e9rez de Paz, botanist, disciple and collaborator of Sventenius, former head of research at the Canario Botanical Garden; Juli Caujap\u00e9 Castells, biologist, director of the Jard\u00edn Bot\u00e1nico Canario “Viera y Clavijo” in Las Palmas and host of the events; and Arnoldo Santos Guerra, botanist specializing in Canarian flora, disciple and collaborator of Sventenius, former head of the Botanical Unit of the Jard\u00edn de Aclimataci\u00f3n de La Orotava, in Tenerife.<\/p>\n

Several talks were held during the event, among which the Carl Faust Foundation participated with a few words from Crist\u00f2fol Jord\u00e0 on the impact of Sventenius on the Marimurtra Botanical Garden, where he worked as a gardener and botanist from 1935 to 1940. Also, he was a close collaborator of Carl Faust who was given, among other things, the hapless task of leading the Marimurtra Botanical Garden through the Spanish Civil War, a task he did successfully while ensuring its survival.<\/p>\n

After the parliaments, a video was shown about the life and work of Sventenius made by the Department of Environmental Education of the Botanical Garden of Gran Canaria and finally a toast was made and the participating members were presented with the work Flora de Gran Canaria de G\u00fcnter and Mary Ann Kunkel.<\/p>\n

The tribute is celebrated throughout this year with several actions, one of which took place at the Marimurtra Botanical Garden in February to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Jard\u00edn Bot\u00e1nico Viera y Clavijo, in Gran Canaria, and the 50th anniversary of the death of its creator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last May 22, the tribute to the founder of the Jard\u00edn Bot\u00e1nico de Viera y Clavijo took place on the 50th anniversary of his death Eric Ragnar Sventenius was the Swedish botanist who founded the Jard\u00edn Bot\u00e1nico Viera y Clavijo and was also its first director “The impact that the work of Sventenius has had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundacio-carl-faust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}