February 2016

This week we were in the schools of El Quetzalito and Creek Chino, educating children about mangroves, their problems and possible solutions. The class consisted of various educational dynamics between plays with puppets, storytelling, educational books on mangroves, games and identification of problems and solutions by children. 

Thanks to the support of Rufford Foundation, we were able to deliver 400 books from the story created by Blue World Foundation called “Timmy the Crab Explorer: Magical experience by the mangrove” and environmental education was provided to 400 children from the Caribbean of Guatemala.

On February 18, 2016 began the first monitoring of the project “Control of the populations of the invasive species of lionfish in a participatory way with the community of El Quetzalito in the Wildlife Refuge Punta de Manabique”.

First hunting and tasting of the project “Control of the populations of the invasive species of Leon fish in a participatory way with the community of El Quetzalito in the refuge of wildlife Punta de Manabique”. Morphometric data were also taken in situ. We want to thank the group of women of the community of El Quetzalito, Waterquest, CONAP, KFW, MARFUND and FCG for the support to carry out this project.

Every week we are forming capacities in our young volunteers (sons and daughters of shark fishermen) through the implementation of our manual monitoring of sharks and rays for technical fishermen.