Since our operations started, we have been aware of the challenge implied by managing the impact of our business on the environment. Therefore, in AES El Salvador, we created initiatives aimed at raising awareness, preserving and protecting our natural resources and biodiversity.
Urban Arboriculture: “Sustainable Cities”
Urban arboriculture considers the planning of planting adequate flora species in a city. Selecting the species that will form part of the green landscape of cities is a practice that must go hand in hand with its urban planning plans.
As part of the initiatives of AES El Salvador in favor of the adequate and environmentally responsible management of trees in cities, since 2016, we have offered every year the urban arboriculture seminar called "Sustainable Cities" with the objective of providing knowledge that contributes to turn cities into spaces with more harmony between vegetation and electrical infrastructure.
To date, 631 people from 149 institutions related to the environment, as well as municipal mayors' offices, construction companies, and governmental and non-governmental entities, have been trained through seven seminars.
For the environment
Recommendations for vegetation control in cities
We offer a recommendation about the types of trees, palm trees and shrub species with adequate characteristics to adjust to the environment of cities with aerial electrical networks, so that they don't affect lines and don't become a problem for the safety of the community either.
Preservation of Marine Ecosystems
For over 10 years, we have worked on the conservation of marine ecosystems and their biodiversity through various nesting construction and turtle release days, as well as beach clean-up days, which have involved more than 370 volunteers from AES El Salvador.