The Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) carries out various actions to protect and conserve its forest heritage, in addition to providing the student community with environmental education, which allows them to recognize the multiple benefits that urban trees provide.

In this context, since 2022, the Project Development Directorate of the Sustainability Secretariat has been carrying out the program “Diagnosis of the current state and proposal for sustainable management of the Forest Capital of the UANL”, a technical procedure through which the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the trees that exist in the territorial areas occupied by the university facilities can be reliably known, with the objective of promoting their care and conservation, maintaining the environmental services they provide, such as the production of oxygen, the capture of pollutants and suspended particles, the collection of rainwater, the reduction of the effects caused by urban heat islands, serving as a habitat for various species of wild flora and fauna, in addition to serving as recreational areas for members of the university community and society.

Until August 2024, the following have been carried out: 10 Forest Diagnostics in the same number of academic departments and public areas, where they have been censused 2,285 trees on a surface of 326,094 m², with the collaboration of 202 volunteers, especially regular and social service students.