[Many thanks to Linda Rodríguez Guglielmoni for bringing this item to our attention.] The new book Cada árbol tiene su historia [Every Tree Has its Story], edited by Tania López Marrero, will be presented on Thursday, April 24, 2025, from 10:30am to 12:00 noon at Chardón 228 at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez (UPR-Mayagüez). The editor and authors of the stories will participate, along with professors Sally González Miranda and Paola Egipciaco Cruz as commentators. The printed version of the book on the day of the presentation, which is part of the Earth Week activities at UPR-Mayagüez. [Illustrator: Albert Cruz Toro.]

Description: This book is one of the publications by the project entitled “Bosques urbanos: Historias, usos y significados” [Urban Forests: Stories, Uses, and Meanings]. In this collection—and through anecdotes, stories, and poetry—a group of 11 undergraduate students from different disciplines (sociology, comparative literature, art theory, biology, microbiology, geology, and engineering) from UPR-Mayagüez approach the ecological issue from an ingenious and engaging perspective. The texts underscore the importance of trees both in the ecological sphere and in the social and cultural fabric of our country. [. . .]

The “Bosques urbanos” project, and this publication, have been made possible thanks to the support of the Urban and Community Forestry Program of the International Institute of Tropical Forestry of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service.  

Tania López Marrero, assistant professor atUPR-Mayagüez, holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Geography (with emphasis in Human-Environment relationships and Cartography) from Pennsylvania State University.

See more on the event at https://www.facebook.com/RecintoUniversitariodeMayaguez/photos/presentaci%C3%B3n-del-libro-cada-%C3%A1rbol-tiene-su-historiales-invitamos-a-la-presentaci/1081726533763220/?_rdr

For more on the editor, see https://www.tlopezmarrero.com/ and https://www.uprm.edu/cms/index.php/page/3849