On November 19, over 300 people gathered at the office of the Mangrove Association , EcoViva’s partner organization in El Salvador, to draw attention to the impacts of sugar cane plantations on communities living in and near the Bay of Jiquilisco Biosphere Reserve, El Salvador’s largest protected area. It was powerful to see national, regional […]
Government Acknowledges Toxic Waste in Bay of Jiquilisco
A recent article in the Prensa Graphic , a national Salvadoran newspaper, confirms what local residents near the Bay of Jiquilisco, have known for a long time. The water in the wells is toxic because of the cotton plantations of the past and the sugarcane plantations of the present. Salvadorans have witnessed friends and loved […]
