Xiao said that the priority would be conservation of the natural habitat, according to the state's travel network, The Travel Channel.

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Natural Networks will provide 32 year-long placements in green network skills such as species identification, biological recording and habitat conservation techniques.

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With its network of canals and artificial islands, it testifies to the efforts of the Aztec people to build a habitat in the midst of an unfavourable environment.

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