The Global Issues Network is an association that incorporates different schools throughout the world, once a year student leaders meet in an international conference to present an issue that is present in their home country, to offer an antidote to the same and so others may learn from and use in other places in the world. CMS’ first time involved in G.I.N., spearheaded by Lisa Yemma and Praxedes Rivera, focuses on our countries care for coral reefs. So far, the team has focused on educating the public about how parrotfish, who reconstruct and heal coral, are being over fished while lionfish, who hurt and destroy the ecosystem are left alone. The group has, alongside Reef Check DR, visited reefs, learned precautions to take in order to maintain them, as well as experience one of the many consequences of neglecting this natural beauty: beach erosion. A group of students, with Ms. Yemma, visited Playa Fronton and measured from the shoreline to the cliff and will go back after a few months to see the amount of erosion that transpires. The CMS GIN group, including the two teacher advisors, is made up of fifteen environmentally curious and cautious students who are soon to be Sao Paolo bound to present their project for the Dominican Republic’s problem with coral reefs.
Article By: Maria Laura Leon
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