18/07/2015
El Salvador's famous turtles and FIAES
The work of our RedLAC members is being noticed around the world by conservation and environmental media such as National Geographic. Such is the case of the Americas Initiative Fund (FIAES), RedLAC member in El Salvador, which thanks to its initiatives related to the conservation of different species of turtles, has been highlighted by National Geographic's website in Spanish, which features sections of the interview with Jorge Oviedo, Executive Director of FIAES.
El Salvador is the second most important country in the world in terms of turtle conservation (the first is Mexico), which is why the efforts of different types of actors in society have focused on this cause, because beyond the conservation of this species, initiatives focused on turtles allow for the maintenance of a balance on tourist beaches and a good part of the economy of a country with such particular characteristics as El Salvador.
The important work of FIAES in relation to the conservation of species of turtles like the Hawksbill, Baule, Prieta and Olive Ridley (all in danger of extinction) has had an excellent reception not only at national level but at world-wide level, its more recent appearance in means was an article titled 'The turtles that we need' in the version for Web of National Geographic in Spanish. Throughout the publication, the different strategies that FIAES has planned and executed for the conservation of turtles are highlighted, among them the alliances with turtles of El Salvador looking to extract and incubate turtle eggs in a controlled environment.
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