FISHING OVEREXPLOITATION, A GLOBAL PROBLEM
Fishing continues to be the basis of food security for millions of people, a primary source of local employment and a significant factor in the global economy. In fact, around one billion people, m...
Fishing continues to be the basis of food security for millions of people, a primary source of local employment and a significant factor in the global economy. In fact, around one billion people, m...
On March 10, 2022, we welcomed the UPTOS-Clodosbaldo Russián Applied Geochemistry Research Group from Cumaná, Sucre state, allies of La Tortuga Foundation. These professionals have been developing scientific research on the content of plastic garbage and microplastics on beaches in the state of Sucre since 2018, being one of the pioneers in developing studies on this subject in the country.
Coral Unommia has traveled approximately 450 kilometers from Mochima Park
Educational talk to the Choroni Fishermen’s Council was held on Saturday, January 30, 2020
We celebrated the Framework Agreement for Institutional Cooperation that we carried out, closing with a flourish the month of January 2022, between Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales and Fundación La Tortuga. The purpose of this agreement is to strengthen the cooperation links between both institutions, in order to establish plans that contribute to mutual strengthening in technical, research, teaching, development and technical assistance areas; as well as the permanent exchange of information and experiences for the joint realization of projects and programs
RAO Anzoátegui, the research, and education project with sea turtles of La Tortuga Foundation participated in the last two Environmental Congresses held in the country, showing the results of three years of continuous work.
Fundación La Tortuga had a wonderful visit with Provita’s friends in the Macanao Peninsula and its Margarita Parakeet Conservation Project. This successful work has been carried out on Margarita Island since 1989, where the community has made important contributions to the protection of these species both nationally and internationally.
With the global environmental crisis we are experiencing, in La Tortuga Island it is intended, "apparently" without the necessary environmental impact studies, to exploit, as soon as possible, "ecotourism and sustainably", the pristine natural and scenic resources of the island and its keys, namely: marine and underwater habitats, lagoons, and salt flats, archaeological and paleoanthropological sites, endemic terrestrial and aquatic biota.
"Before initiating any tourism project in La Tortuga, it is necessary to restore the sector environmentally devastated in 2007."
