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$7.3 Million To Fight Los Santos Beach Garbage Blight


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$7.3 million to fight  Los Santos beach garbage blight

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Posted 19/04/2019

Four  beaches in Las Santos  have been identified as homes to the holding the highest concentration of garbage

These are the beaches of Monagre and Rompío, in the district of Los Santos, Uverito in Las Tablas and El Arenal in Pedasí, where this year several cleaning operations have been carried out.

 The most common garbage on  the  beaches consists of: plastic containers of soda, oils, medicines, agricultural chemicals foillowed by , nets, cans and glass.  

The conservatigarbage has been found on the shores of the artisanal fishing zone, the salt mines and the Peñón de La Honda wildlife refuges and the coastal area of the Espinal corregimiento.  

Jorge Quintero, regional director of the Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning (Miviot), said recently that the initiative of garbage collection operations on beaches in the region arises from the need to conserve the environment, and he by the bad disposition of it. At the same time, he called on the population in general to become aware of this situation.  

Aa week ago the Ministry of Environment (Mi Ambiente) launched the a $7.38 million.project of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in coastal marine reproduction zones of the province

 

https://www.newsroompanama.com/environment/73-million-to-fight-los-santos-beach-garbage-blight

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