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SEA TURTLE LIBERATION with SyCOMA at Campamento Tortuguero Don Manuel Orantes
As part of AMA’s goal to liberate 1 million sea turtles in one year, we at ...
The Organisation for Environmental Sustainability and Conservation, aware of the need to respond effectively and efficiently to the problem regarding the loss of biodiversity, as per its corresponding responsibilities and faculties, considers one aim to be to develop a series of actions aimed at conservation.
Fundacion Iluminame seeks to strengthen the development of the young people of Los Cabos, through programmes which impact their education and values, the construction of a Community Youth Centre and collaborative work with other social organisations.
Gente Joven Por Un Cambio works for environmental education for children and young people and health education for social wellbeing in Los Cabos.
Taste Ecologico Cabo San Lucas works to recycle solid waste, channeling and using it for construction and environmental education for the children and young people of Los Cabos.
Huellas Verdes is a non-profit organisation for the cleaning up of beaches and rivers and environmental education for children and young people in the local schools.
Yo Reciclo is a non-profit organisation dedicated to cleaning up beaches and rivers and managing recyclable material in Los Cabos.
Asupmatoma works for the preservation, care and reproduction of the sea turtle in Baja California Sur, in the Los Cabos area.
Building Baja’s Future Los Cabos is for environmental awareness, care and conservation in Los Cabos, building an environmental culture.
Cabet Cultura y Ambiente seeks to rescue sea lions, with a remote sedation technique. The objective of this non-pro t organisation is the well-being of marine life.
ECO-R is an environmental project for the awareness, care and conservation of the environment in Los Cabos, and creation of a Socio-Evironmental culture there. ECO-R’s local young people and citizens are preoccupied with the situation in which their city now finds itself.
The objective of Espíritu Santo Es Parte de Ti is the rescue of reefs and the protection and vigilance of reef fish in danger of extinction in the Espíritu Santo island area.
AMA supports local marine conservation initiatives which are already taking positive action, such as: Mar Libre, Espiritu Santo Es Parte de Ti, ECO-R, Cabet Cultura y Ambiente, Building Baja’s Future Los Cabos, Asupmatoma, Yo Reciclo, Huellas Verdes, Taste Ecologico Cabo San Lucas, and Gente Joven por un Cambio.
Currently AMA’s goals include: a mission to save 45 sea lions from entrapment by fishing nets and a plan to release 5,000 turtles into the sea, hatched from eggs that had been endangered.
Letter from Biologist Dra. Graciela Tiburcio Pintos
“Water makes up three quarters of Planet Earth, unlike other known stars, and most of this is taken up by the volume of the oceans.
Therefore together the oceans and seas form the most extensive water of our world, covering more than 70% of the earth’s surface; making them indispensable to the creation of life and essential for the survival of human beings.
Although from day to day we may not be aware of the importance they hold, the oceans carry out a wide array of functions which permit and promote the existence of all the species that populate the planet, above all, that of huamn beings. Over 50% of the world’s population live on coasts, and 75% will by 2025.
Firstly, we must highlight that the oceans are a font of biological food resources thanks to which billions of people worldwide are able to be sustained.
Moreover, they are a source of raw materials, minerals, precious metals, and even salt water, providing industrial and commercial uses.
Thirdly, their importance lies in that the oceans in themselves are an important energy resource, since beyond containing pockets of gas or petroleum, they produce renewable energy thanks to the strength of maritime movements and underwater currents. This is also known as Hydraulic Energy.
In addition, the oceans serve as a climate regualtor, since they absorb the planet’s excess heat and regulate the effects of climate change, exchanging gases with the atmosphere. But they also produce most of the oxygen on which we depend in the atmosphere (70%), even more than the woods and forests of the Earth’s crust. And if this were not enough, they provide more than 97% of the world’s water supply .
On a socioeconomic level, the oceans are also important, as they bring wealth and development, and support the whole world’s economic activities. Given that a great part of the world’s population live in coastal zones, the oceans are generators of labour and economic resources in tasks related with the sea, sharing fish, industry, trade, tourism or even the science that is dedicated to their study. Equally outstanding is the role of the oceans as routes of communication thanks to maritime transport and the geopolotical and strategic importance they have had throughout history.
Considering that a great part of the human population lives on the coast, many coastal communities also have a series of cultural values and beliefs assoicated with the ocean.
All we human beings depend on the sea, whether we live near or far from it. It plays a role in the social, economic, cultural and environmental balance of all the countries in the world. The oceans find themselves interlinked with human populations, the part of our planet which is the basis of support for all life on earth. When we look after our oceans and give them a future, we give the same to ourselves.”
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