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After growing over 1500 coral fragments in their nurseries, the non-profit Elkhorn Marine Conservancy is now planting thousands of critically endangered corals onto degraded Antiguan reefs.

The Elkhorn Marine Conservancy (EMC) was established in 2021 with the goal of restoring and protecting the degraded marine and coastal ecosystems of Antigua.

Shallow coral reefs support Antigua’s important tourism and fishing industries, and protect fragile coastlines from erosion and inundation.

Yet, these ecosystems have suffered extensively over the last few decades due to pollution, unsustainable development, overfishing, disease, hurricanes and climate change.

The reef’s most historically dominant species, the elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), known for its tall branching shape which provides exceptional habitat space and wave breaking capacity, is now critically endangered throughout the Caribbean, along with several other stony coral species.

To help coral reefs recover, the EMC has undertaken an ambitious coral restoration project aimed at restoring and preserving the reefs within Antigua’s North East Marine Management Area (NEMMA).

In the summer of 2021, the team set up two underwater nurseries and populated them with over 1,500 coral fragments (small pieces of live coral). By harvesting fragments from a diversity of genetically distinct coral colonies within the NEMMA that have survived prior stressors such as disease outbreaks and bleaching events, the team strives to plant reefs that will be more resilient to current and future threats.

After a year of grow-out in the nurseries, coral fragments have increased up to ten-fold in size and are ready to be planted.

Over the past few weeks, the EMC has been harvesting large pieces of corals from their nursery structures and planting them onto the degraded reefs around Green Island and York Island, near Nonsuch Bay.

Using small amounts of portland cement or marine epoxy, coral fragments are ‘glued’ onto the seafloor. In only a few weeks, the corals will overgrow the cement or epoxy, further solidifying themselves onto the reef, and will begin growing upwards.

A small piece of each original coral fragment is kept on the nursery structure to ensure corals can be harvested from the nurseries for years to come. The team has already planted over 1,400 corals and hopes to plant over 1000 more before the end of the year.

The EMC team is now developing a strategy to protect these restoration sites from threats such as anchoring damage, pollution and overfishing. By collaborating with primary stakeholders and engaging with Antigua and Barbuda’s Government, the EMC and local partners strive to implement an integrated marine management strategy in order to protect current and future restoration sites.

The organization has plans to double their current capacity in the nursery next year in order to increase the scale and scope of their restoration effort.

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ORANJESTAD (AAN): Siman pasa debi cu Horcan Nicole a pone diferente evento cancela den centro di Florida,

esey a hala fecha tambe di un competencia di Baseball hubenil planea na Sanford, cu ta keda net panort di Orlando na Florida.

   Cu empuhe di The Stars Organization na Aruba, nan a logra di participa cu 3 team di e isla aki pa bay atende e campeonato di 2022 Perfect Game East Fall Championship.  Tur e weganan aki lo bay ta na BOOMBAH Sports Complex na Sanford, Florida.

   Pa categoria di 11U lo tin dos team di Aruba, esta ‘Bigshow Stars AAA’ cu nan coach Elwin Rincones, tambe ‘Bigshow Warriors AA’ cu nan coach Edmar Rincones.

   Pa categoria di 14U lo tin un solo team di Aruba, esta ‘Bigshow AAA’ cu nan coach Edgar Rasmijn.

   Perfect Game ta un di e eventonan di mas grandi pa scouting di scolnan na e parti aki di Merca.  Segun Elwin Rincones, kende ta presidente di Stars Organization, desde 2017 caba Aruba ta participando na Perfect Game.  Y awor na 2022 por mira cu hopi di e hobennan pelotero di Aruba cu a yega di participa na Perfect Game, awor ta hungando pa baseball na Merca, of ta firma cu team di MLB na Republica Dominicana.

   E ta un structura cu The Star Organization tin traha pa empuha e hobennan aki pa nan purba na logra yega un nivel mas halto den Baseball.  Pues cu e muchanan chikito aki nan ta prepara nan di awor caba, pa ora nan bira edad mas grandi, nan por logra algo den esaki.

  E ta habri caminda pa e muchanan haya beca den futuro, y esey ta e estimulo pa e organizacion aki sigui busca forma pa cada aَña nan viaha pa Florida pa participa den e Perfect Game Championship aki.

   Teamnan di Aruba tin di bay den exterior pa asina calibra nan mes y mira con bon nan ta para.  Y esaki ta un forma cu por yudabo haci comparacion di e peloteronan y di nan habilidad.

   E hobennan ta haya chens di hunga weganan den exterior, pa asina nan mes mira y observa tur cos, pa asina ora di bin bek Aruba, nan por sigui traha pa bay na e siguiente nivel personal.

   Pa a haci e viahe, The Stars Organization a organiza diferente rifa, y evento pa recauda fondo pa haci nan participacion posible.  Elwin Rincones ta gradici tur esnan den e comision, y tur cu a duna un man pa keda pusha pa e viahe a bira posible, incluyendo varios patrocinador.  Hasta a gradici Southwest Airlines cu a logra di cambia nan ticket debi cu nan no por a viaha durante Horcan Nicole di siman pasa.

   E ta algo pa inverti den futuro di mesun pais, y sigui entrena nan pa mehora den baseball.

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ORANJESTAD (AAN): Vanessa Croes ta lider di e proyecto Poder di Hubentud a presenta e grupo di e categoria di 15 pa 17 aña di participantenan di Poder di Hubentud, un proyecto realisa door di Asociacion Trabao di Hubentud Aruba (ATHA).

            E proyecto aki tin e meta pa reconoce e potencial di e hobennan na Aruba. Hobennan cu ta destaca den un of otro area. E vision tambe di e proyecto ta pa motiva e hobennan pa alcansa na metanan y pa nan desaroya nan competencianan na un nivel personal y profesional, Croes a splica.

            El a sigui bisa cu esaki ta pa forma lidernan cu ta trece punto y cambionan positivo pa Aruba den un forma structural y duradero.

            E hobennan presente a wordo reconoci entre otro riba area di desaroyo social, arte y cultura, educacion, innovacion, tecnologia, deporte y trabao boluntario. Nan a pasa den un trayecto di varios siman na unda cu nan ta bay ta haci diferente tayer, encuentronan hunto como grupo pa asina ‘brainstorm’ riba locual nan ta mira como un necesidad na Aruba.

            E hobennan a presenta nan proyecto y alabes a invita comunidad pa sostene nan y participa na dje tambe.

            For di 12 di Augustus, a cuminsa e proceso pa diferente persona por a aplica y nomina un hoben. Tur aplicacion a pasa door di un proceso di ‘screening’ y segun un criteria a bay mira cual tabata e hobennan cu por a participa y cu ta pas cu e criterianan aki pa por forma parti di e proyecto Poder di Hubentud 2022.      

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Poison de la relation entre la France et le Royaume-Uni, la lutte contre l’immigration illégale fait l’objet d’un nouvel accord de coopération signé lundi entre les deux pays pour enrayer les traversées de la Manche par des migrants…

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