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Tommy Beaudreau (DOI) and Martha Williams (USFWS)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

On April 4, Tommy Beaudreau, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and Martha Williams, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) met at Castillo Cristobal in San Juan, where Conservation Opportunity (CO) was able to participate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also representing the community were agencies and entities such as the U.S. Environmental Conservation Agency, the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF) and Conservaci\u00f3n ConCiencia.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the meeting, DOI and FWS were able to see how their programs were running on the island and receive feedback from the agencies and communities that benefit from them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They wanted to know how they could continue to support Puerto Rico through their programs and be able to collaborate in helping endangered species and historical sites on the island.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Crystal Strong (HAF), Fabiola Torres (CO) and Jos\u00e9 \u201cQuiquito\u201d Mel\u00e9ndez (House of Representatives of PR)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

CO had the opportunity to promote jobs, especially highlighting FWS's Directorate Resource Assistant Fellows Program (DFP). This 11-week program seeks juniors and seniors in undergraduate and graduate programs interested in careers in environmental conservation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This year's program began in mid-May and ends in September, with the possibility of hiring students to the agency after the program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI felt heard, in conjunction with what we were talking about, in summary we applauded them for their good programs and we also had the opportunity to make suggestions on how they can help the community outside of the agencies but also serve as a consultation for other agencies that are within the island to implement what they do as well,\u201d explained Fabiola Torres, Founder of Conservation Opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Representatives present at the meeting.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

This visit by FWS and DOI was part of a series of visits made around the island with the purpose of reinforcing the assistance offered, making the voices of the communities heard, and making lands and water bodies more accessible, through the laws: <\/span>Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and the Open Space Act.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On April 4, Tommy Beaudreau, the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior (DOI), and Martha Williams, the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), met at Castillo Cristobal in San Juan, where Conservation Opportunity (CO) was able to participate. Likewise, agencies and entities such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, the Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF), and Conservation ConCiencia were also present representing the community. At the meeting, DOI and FWS were able to see how their programs were running on the island and receive feedback from the agencies and communities that benefit from them. They sought to learn how they could continue to support Puerto Rico through their programs and collaborate on assistance for endangered species and historic sites on the island. CO had the opportunity to promote jobs, especially highlighting the FWS program, the \u201cDirectorate Resource Assistant Fellows Program\u201d (DFP). This 11-week program seeks third- and fourth-year students from undergraduate programs and graduates interested in environmental conservation careers. This year\u2019s cohort began in mid-May and concludes in September, where there is the possibility of hiring students after the program. \u201cI felt heard, along with what we were talking about; in short, we applauded their good programs and also had the opportunity to make suggestions on how they can help the community outside of the agencies but also serve as a resource for other agencies located on the island to implement what they are doing as well,\u201d explained Fabiola Torres, Founder of Conservation Opportunity. This visit by the FWS and DOI was part of a series of visits conducted around the island with the purpose of strengthening the aid provided, making the voices of the communities heard, and making lands and bodies of water more accessible through legislation: the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and the Open Space Act.  <\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"enableOnePageScrollInPage":false,"onePageScrollCss":"","onePageScrollSpeed":1000,"onePageScrollAnimation":"easeInOutQuad","onePageScrollShowDotNavigation":true,"onePageScrollNavigation":"scaleUp","onePageScrollNavigationPosition":"right","onePageScrollNavigationHorizontal":[],"onePageScrollNavigationVertical":[],"onePageScrollNavigationSpacing":[],"onePageScrollNavigationColor":"#00ff0d","onePageScrollNavigationColorHover":"#00ff0d","onePageScrollNavigationColorActive":"#00ff0d","onePageScrollNavigationIcon":[],"onePageScrollNavigationWidth":[],"onePageScrollNavigationWidthHover":[],"onePageScrollNavigationWidthActive":[],"onePageScrollNavigationHeight":[],"onePageScrollNavigationHeightHover":[],"onePageScrollNavigationHeightActive":[],"onePageScrollNavigationBorder":[],"onePageScrollNavigationBorderHover":[],"onePageScrollNavigationBorderActive":[],"onePageScrollNavigationBorderRadius":[],"onePageScrollNavigationBorderRadiusHover":[],"onePageScrollNavigationBorderRadiusActive":[],"onePageScrollNavigationTooltipTypography":[],"onePageScrollNavigationTooltipColor":"#ffffff","onePageScrollNavigationTooltipColorHover":"","onePageScrollNavigationTooltipBgColor":"#00ff0d","onePageScrollNavigationTooltipBgColorHover":"","onePageScrollNavigationTooltipPadding":[],"onePageScrollNavigationTooltipPaddingHover":[],"onePageScrollNavigationTooltipBorderRadius":[],"onePageScrollNavigationTooltipBorderRadiusHover":[],"pageSettingsCustomCss":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/6149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}