The projects in which NOS Sustainable Northwest leads or collaborates have a common goal: to generate thriving, resilient and sustainable economic communities.

Alejandro Robles Gonzalez is leading the efforts of this civil organization, which is headquartered at La PazBaja California Sur, whose mission is to promote integral wellbeing by empowering communities around their collective vision of restoring and maintaining the abundance of their natural resources and the health of their ecosystems.

In an interview for Al Cabo Newsof Corporal Milthe president of NOSsaid that this organization had participated in the Summit 2023 from Sea of Cortez Foruman event where business, academic and social leaders converge in support of the sustainable development of the region.

There, he said, Sustainable Northwest together with two Japanese companies, presented a technology that regenerates or creates new reefs for the recovery of marine species that have been lost due to overfishing or loss of habitat in the Gulf of California.

"Within this effort there are also shell nurses, which are artificial reefs made from oyster shells (that) have the purpose of recovering species that have been lost due to overfishing or habitat loss."he explained.

Robles Gonzalez said that in May they will have one year of results from this project and in December 2024 it will have 18 months and the data obtained will give the guideline to see the adjustments to be made in this Japanese technology.

"Japan has it very proven, there are more than 20,000 sites where they use it, in Japanese fishing communities, but this is the first time that the technology leaves Japan and we have to adapt it to our conditions."he said.

The president of NOS added that at Summit 2022, they presented the case of El Manglitoa neighborhood of traditional fishermen who, together with them, began to restore the La Paz inlet.

"There is oyster farming, and there is also a particular group of very dedicated women who are known as the Guardians of Conchalito, who have rescued a place that was lost, an estuary that is very important ecologically, and this group of women has cleaned it, taken care of it, restored it and today it is even a kind of park within the city itself".he said.

Both projects, he emphasized, have been presented at the Sea of Cortez Forum to share and learn from them.

Robles Gonzalez encouraged everyone, especially young people and children, to participate in activities that are close to their communities, so that they can learn, educate themselves and commit to an agenda of prosperity and care for the Bay of La Paz.

Source: Corporal Mil