Event Recap: Latino Conservation Week 2020
From roundtable discussions, to a new blog series, and digital events with outdoor partnerships, this year’s Latino Conservation Week proved to be spectacular for the HECHO team. Though this year’s Latino Conservation Week has come and gone, we hope that the momentum of LCW goes beyond its week time frame as we continue to celebrate, learn, and make space for our community in conservation. Catch up on a few of the ways that we celebrated LCW202O below!
Utah Press Event
HECHO’s Program Manager, Bianca McGrath-Martinez joined a coalition of organizations on July 18th to kick-off Latino Conservation Week. Alongside the new Latino Outdoors Salt Lake City chapter, Artes de Mexico en Utah, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Latino Outdoors Colorado, Science in the Parks – SLC, and HEAL Utah HECHO explored the importance of Latino Conservation Week to the work that we do. See the Press Event recap here.
Blog Series: Are Public Lands a Part of the Climate Solution or Climate Problem?
Launching during LCW2020, the new HECHO series will explore the case of public lands as a climate crisis solution by looking to the communities that have built and sustained the momentum for change. We look to the West and Southwest regions of the United States, where the majority of public lands are and where heat, drought, and wildfires have been raging. Lowering of greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning from fossil fuel based energy to renewable energy cannot exist in a vacuum. The process of lowering emissions needs to take into account the full picture — economic, environmental, health and social resiliency. Read the first blog here and the second blog here.
Conexión: The Conservation Heritage of Latinx and Hispanic Peoples in the Southwest
HECHO’s Program Manager, Bianca McGrath-Martinez participated in an educational webinar in partnership with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Latino Outdoors Colorado, the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, the National Parks Conservation Association and Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Bianca joined a number of other Latinx and Hispanic leaders in exploring the Latinx and Hispanic experience with the National Park Service, Food Security and Hunting, Advocacy and Environmental Legislation, and Climate Justice Activism.
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