Next steps Stakeholders
I have to admit that communication has not been great, especially on my part with the rest f the team members, especially with my head partner of the project. And I am going to work on such skill in order for us all to work well and efficiently, knowing what is going on with all of the sectors of the project.
Now the project has taken some drastic turns throughout the year, we went from just recollecting a couple hundred seeds and panting them in some home made pots at the beginning of our CAS experience to actually forming a big team that is willing to help restore the mangrove. In school we added one super student and friend that is basically caring this project forwards once Mayan and I leave, Rochelle; also having back up students from the tenth grade as Felipe and Dylan that are willing to help with whatever is required to do. Our external stakeholders that throughout the year have grown close to us and the project has been Connect Ocean. Ernst has motivated me to try to make this project bigger and integrate more members of the community that are willing to help, Ernst is basically helping us carry this project to success and organizing the steps that we must undertake to project ourselves as entrepreneurs in the conservation field and start that so called ripple affect throughout the community. Thanks to him we have developed steps that we will be working on, he has hooked us up with various scientists, which in my last blog I described; they have sat with us and gone through our project, what we want to achieve, and from there formulate a game plan to fallow. This game plan has been divided in to different section. The first section or step is t start to plan the construction of a green house to host all of the pants that we are awaiting, now this takes up time in order to find the ideal spot, figure out our pricing fr the material, dimensions, capacity, and also the financing aspect of it. But at the same time start to plan out programs, which goals are to integrate others, kids from different communities, schools, areas of the country, and even foreigners, to come and join the mangrove explorer program that Cabinas las Olas and Connect Ocean will be hosting. Some side ideas that we will be working on is the seed depos system “ps: im not sure about this... we are still discussing it”, and also the adopt a mangrove and promoting of the project on social media, which Felipe and Dylan are going to start to work on once we have a clear idea on what we exactly want. Now another thing that we have to be aware of is the prime seeds season in August, so by this time we at least have too have the green house up and ready t host the baby seeds. I will be in charge of finding the ideal spots within the mangrove to recollect the seeds, this is because we will listen to Jemmas recommendation, which is to recollect the seeds from within the actual mangrove, therefore the seeds are more fertile and have a higher chance of growing successfully. And also Mayan and Rochelle have started a “grid” on google earth to have an idea on were we are going to want to plant the little trees, so that we have an idea or actually have the areas pin pointed to “go with the flow” of the upcoming natural reforestation that the mangrove itself has already began along the margins of the forest.
There is a lot to be done, so on my part, I will work more on communicating what is going on with the rest of the group to make sure that we are all on the same page and with this ensure success of the project. And without the influence of Connect Ocean and the support f Roche, this project would have still been a small, and repetitive cycle f growing and panting seeds, which is great! But with hep and motivation of these stakeholders, we wouldn't have aspired to go so big! A and hopefully we are able to inspire others to do the same and respect, but most importantly love mother nature.
