Today marks the United Nations Ramsar Convention’s 18th annual World Wetlands Day. From the Everglades in Florida to the Okavanga Delta in Botsawana, people are celebrating wetlands as one of the most biodiverse and productive ecosystems in the world. Wetlands help support a clean water supply, flood regulation, fisheries, agriculture, wildlife resources, and many other […]
Protecting El Salvador’s Largest Wetland From the Bottom Up
Read the original article on National Geographic; This post is the last in a series of three posts about the Jiquilisco region of El Salvador written by Brad Nahill, co-founder of SEETurtles. Read the other two articles here: Seeds of Change and Starting from Scratch. Four imposing volcanoes watched over us as we ate dinner on […]
Community Leaders Share Their Vision for the Bay
Yesterday morning, Mangrove Association and EcoViva hosted a forum on the “Contributions and Challenges for Coastal Zone Development” to share successes in rural growth initiatives and discuss a unified vision for development of the Bay of Jiquilisco region. Among the over 350 people in attendance were representatives from 54 communities, leadership from 8 local groups […]
Join us in Celebrating World Wetlands Day!
This year, we at EcoViva have chosen to commemorate World Wetlands Day (February 2nd) by taking a look back at our work specifically focused around the Bay of Jiquilisco, a “Wetland of International Importance” as declared by the Ramsar Convention. In the Bay of Jiquilisco, the dizzying tangle of channels through mangrove forests provides sanctuary […]
