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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