Hello Fellow Stewards of the Environment! Reaching out once more because this is the last 10 days of fundraising for our future sea turtle/environmental conservationists! I'm working as an environmental education intern at ARCAS, one of the only wildlife conservation and rehabilitation organizations on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala and right now, we have an awesome project called Rally Parlama. This is a program consisting of six different activities related to environmental education and sea turtle conservation. Students from six different rural schools within Guatemala have been working extremely hard in order to successfully complete the activities and win a trip of a life time to Antigua. Each activity is correlated to conservation and environmental empowerment for the local people of Guatemala. For example, one of the activities is to find a nest and bring it to our Tortugario. Another activities has the students searching for 100 mangrove seeds to plant here at ARCAS all with the goal of supporting this vital and dynamic ecosystem within Guatemala. With all of that said, ARCAS is a non-profit in Guatemala with limited funds and support from the government. SO, if you at ECOLOG-L could checkout the link below and spread the word to people interested in supporting sea turtle conservation me, and more importantly, my students/future generations of conservationists would greatly appreciate it. Every dollar counts!
Here is the link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/guatemalan-students-working-for-a- healthy-planet--2/x/12070336#/story Thanks for your time and hope to hear from you soon! Grace Hilling (Colgate University '15)
