Today is World Wetlands Day, and the Salvadoran Ministry of Environment (MARN) announced some thrilling news: it will soon be able to better monitor illegal fishing activity along the coast with the help of state-of-the-art technology. This is a major victory for organizations like EcoViva and ICAPO, together with community allies, who continue to raise public […]
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 […]
Climate: Putting people over money
Cross-posted from Al Jazeera Facing climate change, a social movement in El Salvador fights mass flooding and the toxic burning of cane fields. By Dahr Jamail While debate about whether climate change is real or not continues in the US, the world’s leading producer of CO2 emissions per capita, those already living with the effects, […]
Good News on World Wetlands Day!
I was pleased to see today in El Salvador’s Prensa Grafica newspaper that the Jaltepeque Estuary of El Salvador was just declared a protected wetlands under the UN Ramsar Convention. This beautiful mangrove forest, which I’ve had the pleasure of visiting with local leaders, is at the mouth of the Lempa River. It is a […]
