Achievements in Honduras
Honduras Community and Marine Conservation Project
Quest volunteer teams were working on the island of Utila in 2007 and where we have been supporting the local NGO in their development of a marine ecology centre. We supported this marine paradise and the local community by subsidising local students and through educational work, which puts scientific outputs into educational resources for local people and combines this with practical conservation work.
Achievements
- Our funding helped to support local research students from the national university complete their theses projects, one of which got an honorary mention for her work and we are now putting a paper together on the results
- A portion of the funds went into helping to buy a computer for the office for use by volunteers and visiting students to input data and to design and make educational materials which they then distribute.
Future plans could include the further sponsorship of local people to be involved in marine conservation and management and expanding the educational program to other islands and communities in the Honduran Bay Islands.
