SINERGIA is already a reality, but due to Coronavirus, their income has been cut off for months at least, so they are raising funds to finish this conservation hub, specifically for lab materials and building an office and education space for local communities and projects to use.
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#Tierra bomba plus#
SINGERIA is the first project of its kind in on the island, and gives community members like Yassandra additional opportunities to learn about the reef, plus job opportunities focused on reef conservation and monitoring. It is a house in Bocachica dedicated to "Diving with Purpose" and brings science, conservation, education, and art projects to Bocachica and its coral reef Varadero. Paraiso Dive has been working on a new initiative that incorporates community above and below water called SINERGIA. By seeing, first hand, the coral reef that her community survives from, she has witnessed how it is rapidly being destroyed. For Yassandra and the other youth in their program, learning to dive has opened up a new world, that most other islanders have never experienced. Yassandra is one of several youth in their program that teaches young islanders about reef conservation and diving in order to empower them to appreciate their reef and furrthermore give them job opportunities. Paraiso Dive has taken Yassandra for all consecutive dives and trainings. Paraiso Dive Cartagena is the dive centre that partnered with Yassandra and took her diving for her first time over two years ago. Run by Jota & Christina of Paraiso Dive School The islanders need the tools to be able to protect their own native environment, led by Yassandra, who has the strength to unite and inspire her community and the work of Paraiso Dive School If this continues, the reef will eventually be dead, and the islander’s forced to migrate from their home, becoming climate refugees. Fishermen from Bocachica, cannot catch enough for the survival of their families, have turned to dynamite fishing, adding another great threat to the coral. With large parts of the coral reef dead, the fish numbers are depleting. Globalisation, driven by the city just 1km away, the industry continues to destroy the reef by dredging to build wider canals, and build new structures that interfere with the eco-system. All day enormous ships pass back and forth, releasing toxins and polluting the ocean. A passage for huge Cargo ships runs just a few hundred metres of the shores.
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In recent years, the island’s precious reef has become increasingly vulnerable to pollution, dredging and climate change. Neglected by the Colombian government, they have limited access to healthcare, proper waste disposal and education. Inhabited by an Afro- Caribbean community who survive mainly from fishing off the Varadero reef that surrounds the island.
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Isla de Tierra Bomba is 1km off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia.