La Tortuga Foundation presented projects to neighbors of Lechería

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Last Monday, May 26, La Tortuga Foundation invited the municipal authorities and neighbors of Lechería to a meeting in the Technical Room of the Mayor’s Office of Urbaneja to present the projects that the environmental foundation is carrying out in various entities of the country and the use that will be made of its new headquarters located on Fermín Toro Street in the city.

Last Monday, May 26, La Tortuga Foundation invited the municipal authorities and neighbors of Lechería to a meeting in the Technical Room of the Mayor’s Office of Urbaneja to present the projects that the environmental foundation is carrying out in various entities of the country and the use that will be made of its new headquarters located on Fermín Toro Street in the city.

Zuleima de Lyón, general director, Tatiana Montiel, director of theturtlefoundation affairs, Nayil Chersia, director of education and culture and Osmer Luces, director of urban planning attended on behalf of the Mayor’s Office. The residents of Morro I and Morro II were represented by Jorge García, Alexis Romero, Gustavo Mora, Beatriz Veracoechea, president of the Lechería Parish Council, and architects Bernabé Ruíz and Luis Felipe Salazar.

Fundación La Tortuga was presented by Alberto Boscari, president, and María Eugenia Jirón, communications director. The scientific research projects presented were Biological and Oceanographic Characterization of La Tortuga Island, Physical, Chemical, and Biological Variables of the Isletas de Píritu, Environmental Monitoring of Mochima National Park, and Water Quality Monitoring of the El Morro Tourist Complex. These studies will make it possible to know, in some cases, the levels of contamination of the areas and the biodiversity of our reservoirs in order to carry out appropriate management and conservation measures.

In addition, the Pilas para tu Vida (Batteries for your Life) project was presented, a campaign to collect used batteries in Lechería as a pilot city to create ecological awareness and mitigate the effects that batteries cause on the environment when they are improperly disposed of. This initiative will join efforts of the municipal entity, civil society, and educational institutions of Urbaneja.

Among the uses that will be given to the house that will function as the new headquarters of the foundation are the administrative and planning tasks that every organization must carry out. Outreach and awareness projects on environmental issues and scientific research activities carried out by La Tortuga will be developed in the field, in the marine-coastal and insular areas of the country.

On June 11, a new meeting will be held between representatives of the municipal entity, La Tortuga Foundation and the neighbors of Fermín Toro de Urbaneja street, who did not attend this meeting and expressed, outside the hall, their disagreement with the installation of the institution on that street, even though the municipal ordinances do not contemplate any reason why the organization should not operate in those spaces.