Porto Inglês, Oct 21 (Inforpress) – The Maio Biodiversidade Foundation has made a “positive assessment” of the first exchange with a counterpart from the African sub-region, which works on the turtle conservation project in the Banco de Arguim Natural Park, located in Mauritania.
The coordinator of the campaign to protect sea turtles, Jairson da Veiga, assured Inforpress that this was a moment of “great sharing and exchange of experiences” between the technicians at Maio Biodiversidade Foundation and the members of the Banco de Arguim Natural Park, who came to know some techniques used by that NGO, which they will apply in their conservation work.
“They were very pleased and enthusiastic about the conservation and monitoring work of sea turtles in Maio and learned some methodologies will be applied in their conservation work in Mauritania, and together with their communities,” he said, also looking at a two-member trip from the Maio Biodiversidade Foundation to Mauritania next year, with a view to see new conservation realities and work methodologies with turtles and protected areas.
According to explained, in the delegation coming from Mauritania was part of a responsible for monitoring and collecting data on the beaches of the Natural Park of Banco de Arguim and the head of the mobile brigade that coordinates a team and ensures the data collection process and monitoring of the territory is carried out according to the planning by the operational department to which it reports.
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