Protected zones to be set up in all 10 regions

A section of the gathering (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

President David Granger on Friday said that protected areas will be established in all 10 regions of the country.

The Ministry of the Presidency said in a release on Saturday that he was speaking at the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana’s (THAG) President’s Awards Ceremony 2016.

At the event, which was hosted at the Guyana Marriott Hotel, Granger expanded on his April 22 announcement in France at the signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change that two million hectares of land would be set aside for conservation.