SOMONCA volunteers clean up beaches
The volunteers of the SOMONCA ecological foundation (Sosúa, Montellano and Cabarete) have cleaned a number of beaches near Cabarete (including La Boca) from litter. They were supported in this by the Ministry of Tourism, Medio Ambiente, CESTUR, Asociación de Agricultura of Puerto Plata, la Asociacion Nacional and municipal administration.
Recently co-founder and secretary Garry Kooy of SOMONCA passed away. He would have been proud and pleased to know that even without him the foundation will continue the good ecological work for the north coast. The chairman Tony Gómez of SOMONCA said in a press briefing that cleaning up the beaches, especially removing stray plastic is of vital importance. Plastic affects the eco-system and is partly responsible for fish mortality. SOMONCA is therefore very active with information campaigns about the unnecessary use of plastic packaging materials. Among other things, they come to schools to inform young people as early as possible about the threats to the environment.
Source: Sosua News
Mar 28, 2019
Category: DR News |