{"id":6060,"date":"2023-09-17T17:28:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T17:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svk.dlr.mybluehost.me\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2023-10-01T14:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:43:15","slug":"conservation-opportunity-se-apunta-otra-exitosa-limpieza-de-playas-en-el-balneario-sun-bay-en-vieques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/conservation-opportunity-se-apunta-otra-exitosa-limpieza-de-playas-en-el-balneario-sun-bay-en-vieques\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Opportunity scores another successful beach cleanup at Sun Bay beach in Vieques"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Foto

Participants next to garbage bags. Photo by Juli\u00e1n Sotomayor.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Joan N. Contreras Otero<\/p>\n

(September 16, 2023- Vieques, Puerto Rico)<\/strong> The non-profit organization, Conservation Opportunity (CO) extended its collaborative arms and joined the traditional International Coastal Cleanup held every third Saturday of September by the Ocean Censervancy and Scuba Dogs Society, this time at the Sun Bay Spa<\/u><\/strong> in the municipality of Vieques. At the same time, the event was part of its \u201cEnjoy with Conscience<\/a>\u201dThe purpose of the sign was to encourage the conservation of natural resources, promote and educate the public on how to keep natural resources clean.<\/p>\n

The event was a success with the collection of 330 pounds of garbage and the participation of 43 volunteers, including various non-profit organizations, community leaders and municipal employees. Among the waste collected were the following: knives, glass bottles, gates, toys, propane gas, cigarette butts, construction materials and general trash. \u201cOur goal was, in addition to installing our conservation sign, to specifically impact this beach because of its geographic importance to protect the biodiversity and marine life of these waters adjacent to Mosquito Bay also known as the Bioluminescent Bay of Vieques\u201d expressed Fabiola Torres founder and President of CO.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the Mayor of Vieques, Hon. Jos\u00e9 \u2018Junito\u2019 Corcino Acevedo participated in the activity and provided some of the materials and equipment necessary for this type of event. \u201cSeeing this group of young people come to the Municipality of Vieques with much effort and sacrifice to carry out this activity fills us with much pride because this motivates young Viequenses to be part of the cleanup of their coasts and beaches. We also recognize your organization for carrying out this cleaning activity because we are few and we do not have great economic resources and this collaboration helps us greatly, we are very grateful,\u201d said the Mayor of Vieques, Hon. Jos\u00e9 \u2018Junito\u2019 Corcino Acevedo.<\/p>\n

Conservation Opportunity would like to thank the Mayor, the municipality, and especially Troop 723G for bringing all of its members, and the community for joining us in this cleanup and installation of our seventh environmental conservation sign. He would also like to thank the local non-profit TICATOVE and HatiCoop. and Scuba Dogs Society for sponsoring the activity. \u201cIt fills us with great joy and satisfaction to be able to contribute our organizational resources and bring our conservation message to one of the busiest resorts on our island, here in Vieques. It is fundamental for us as an organization to continue carrying this message of conservation of natural resources on our island,\u201d said Amilkar Cruz Pastrana, Director and member of the Board of Directors of Conservation Opportunity.<\/p>\n

With these expressions, Conservation Opportunity highlights the importance of joining efforts between non-profit organizations and community leaders to conserve, rehabilitate and recondition our beaches, forests and bodies of water. The nonprofit organization explains that the installation of signs as part of its campaign around the island, seeks to expand the message of conservation and encourage visitors to these spaces to be aware of our natural resources.<\/p>\n

\"Foto

Conservation Opportunity team with the mayor of Vieques. Photo by Mario Marrero.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Por Joan N. Contreras Otero (16 de septiembre de 2023- Vieques, Puerto Rico) La organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro, Conservation Opportunity (CO) extendi\u00f3 sus brazos colaborativos y se uni\u00f3 a la tradicional Limpieza Internacional de Costas celebrada todos los terceros s\u00e1bados del mes de septiembre por el Ocean Censervancy y Scuba Dogs Society, en esta ocasi\u00f3n en el Balneario Sun Bay en el municipio de Vieques. A su vez, el evento form\u00f3 parte de su campa\u00f1a \u201cDisfruta con Conciencia\u201d en la cual instalaron un letrero interpretativo con el prop\u00f3sito de fomentar la conservaci\u00f3n de los recursos naturales, promover y educar al p\u00fablico a mantener limpios los recursos naturales. El evento transcurri\u00f3 exitosamente al recoger 330 libras de basura y cont\u00f3 con la participaci\u00f3n de 43 voluntarios entre los cuales se encontraban distintas organizaciones sin fines de lucro, l\u00edderes comunitarios y empleados municipales. Entre los desperdicios recogidos se encontraban los siguientes: navajas, botellas de vidrio, verja, juguetes, gas propano, colillas de cigarrillo, materiales de construcci\u00f3n y basura en general. \u201cNuestra meta era, adem\u00e1s de instalar nuestro letrero de conservaci\u00f3n, impactar espec\u00edficamente esta playa por su importancia geogr\u00e1fica para proteger la biodiversidad y la vida marina de estas aguas adyacentes a la Bah\u00eda Mosquito tambi\u00e9n conocida como la Bah\u00eda Bioluminiscente de Vieques\u201d expres\u00f3 Fabiola Torres fundadora y Presidente de CO. Por otro lado, el alcalde de Vieques, Hon. Jos\u00e9 ‘Junito’ Corcino Acevedo particip\u00f3 de la actividad y facilit\u00f3 algunos de los materiales y equipos necesario para ese tipo de evento. \u201cVer a este grupo de j\u00f3venes llegar al Municipio de Vieques con mucho esfuerzo y sacrificio para realizar esta actividad nos llena de mucho orgullo porque esto motiva a los j\u00f3venes viequenses a ser parte de la limpieza de sus costas y sus playas. Tambi\u00e9n reconocemos a su organizaci\u00f3n por llevar a cabo esta actividad de limpieza porque nosotros somos poco y no tenemos grandes recursos econ\u00f3micos y esta colaboraci\u00f3n nos ayuda grandemente, estamos muy agradecidos.\u201d expres\u00f3 el alcalde de Vieques, Hon. Jos\u00e9 ‘Junito’ Corcino Acevedo. Conservation Opportunity quiere agradecer al Alcalde, al municipio, y especialmente a la Tropa 723G por traer todas sus integrantes, y a la comunidad por unirse a nosotros en esta limpieza e instalaci\u00f3n de nuestro s\u00e9ptimo letrero de conservaci\u00f3n ambiental. A su vez, quiere agradecer a la organizaci\u00f3n local sin fines de lucro TICATOVE y HatiCoop., y Scuba Dogs Society por auspiciar la actividad. \u201cNos llena de mucha alegr\u00eda y satisfacci\u00f3n poder contribuir con nuestros recursos organizativos y poder llevar nuestro mensaje de conservaci\u00f3n a uno de los balnearios m\u00e1s concurridos de nuestra Isla, aqu\u00ed en Vieques. Es fundamental para nosotros como organizaci\u00f3n continuar llevando este mensaje de conservaci\u00f3n de los recursos naturales en nuestra Isla\u201d, dijo el Lcdo. Amilkar Cruz Pastrana, Director y miembro de la Junta de Directores de Conservation Opportunity. Con esas expresiones, Conservation Opportunity resalta la importancia de aunar esfuerzos entre las organizaciones sin fines de lucro y l\u00edderes comunitarios para conservar, rehabilitar y reacondicionar nuestras playas, bosques y cuerpos de agua. La entidad sin fines de lucro explica que las instalaciones de letreros como parte de su campa\u00f1a alrededor de la Isla, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6061,"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":[205],"tags":[448,451,231,454,446,447,452,132,453,450,455,449],"class_list":["post-6060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunicados-de-prensa","tag-448","tag-balneario","tag-conservation-opportunity","tag-haticoop","tag-international-coastal-cleanup-day","tag-limpieza-internacional-de-costas","tag-municipio-de-vieques","tag-puerto-rico","tag-scuba-dogs","tag-sun-bay","tag-tropa-723g","tag-vieques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6066,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions\/6066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationopportunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}