According to Valdes, 1996, to the years 1983 to 1985, could see the little work to promote awareness of environmental values and low protectionist activities of some ecosystems of great value for its high endemism such as the mountain by students, teachers, professors and people in general. In 1987 he created the Comprehensive Plan for Economic and Social Development of the Mountain, called Plan Turquino. In this plan, attended and jerarquerizado by the Government of Cuba, was conceived the need the need for environmental protection and implementation of environmental education, as a community process and the interrelation between the work of teacher, doctor family and the engineer.
Thus, in the 1987-1991 period, we introduced a new curriculum, which incorporated the education curriculum environmental and general education content, however, this reform did not result in sufficient curricular development of environmental education in the educational process in rural primary schools and mountain. The school offers many ways to carry out environmental education, yet it is a very complex and inclusive, the broad significance of the concept of the environment and need awareness, accountability, internalization, dynamism and enthusiasm for teacher, able to motivate, as initial requirement, to students. Raised by the programs and institutions that are more linked to the environment a set of actions from educational institutions, research centers and others to do the following: For example within the various goals, action plans and proposals relevant to note local development, and raises the following: Local authorities have the task of motivating their communities to participate and meet the provisions of Agenda 21.