Check this out!

Exotic Caye Beach Resort in Ambergis Caye, Belize is donating 50% of all room bookings made between January 22 thru February 21 to support hands-on environmental education programs. CaribbeanSEA and the Canadian NGO Direct Abundance will use these funds to offer educational programs about coral reef and mangrove conservation, safe water and sewage discharge solutions in San Mateo, Belize.

Here’s their website!
http://directabundance.com/2012/01/22/be-a-belize-vacation-superhero/

I know I haven’t been blogging a lot lately but that’s because there are so many things going on that I’m still hesitant to announce, but I am so excited to talk about what I am doing right now!

I have come back to the Dominican Republic for the next 2 weeks, where I am working with a couple of different projects (of course), but one that I am very proud of personally is my first ever attempt at graphic design! Behold, I made a poster to promote sustainable fishing! It was approved by the DR Ministry of Environment and will be handed out to restaurants during times of la veda (the ban- when you can’t have those fish) to explain why customers can’t have those items at that time. If you can read Spanish, it’s pretty informative!

Maria stumbled upon this little beauty a little while ago, but I thought I’d share it here. It’s obvious to most of the people we hang around that we need to work on curbing our water usage and conserving our fresh water. After all, out of all the water in the world, around 98% of it is saltwater. Of that remaining 2%, a little under 2/3 is frozen in glaciers, a little under 1/3 is in groundwater, and that remaining fraction of a percent is in our fresh lakes and rivers. (Numbers taken from here.) And when water transitions between being salt or fresh, it’s generally not in the direction of creating more freshwater and less salt water.

So when we come across grossly misinformed charts like the following, we also hope it’s a joke, and yet it rarely is. It’s things like this that remind us how important it is to educate kids and adults alike about the water cycle and conservation.

Mary Beth wrote up an article about CaribbeanSEA’s involvement with fisherman in the Dominican Republic for the November edition of Reef Check’s newsletter! Check it out here:
http://reefcheck.org/news/news_detail.php?id=795

The latest volume of SEA Currents, our annual-ish newsletter, has arrived!

SEA Currents November 2011

Check it out to read about some of our ongoing projects, including Maria’s updates from Saint Lucia, collaboration in the Dominican Republic with utility provider Haina, and our local TenneSEA stormwater education and Best Management Practices work. I say “some” because there’s so much going on right now, we didn’t have room to fit everything!