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18 July 2022

EL PASO TIMES: Outdoor Adventures With His Grandfather Shaped Conservationist Gabe Vasquez as a Leader

Every time the train rumbled past his grandparents' home in Ciudad Juárez, Gabe Vasquez worried a coffee mug or picture frame might fall and shatter on the floor. The home was adjacent to a series…
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18 July 2022

EL PASO TIMES: Get Outdoors, El Paso. Here's a Guide to Get Started.

The Franklin Mountains, the most prominent geologic feature rising above the center of El Paso, a Hispanic-majority city, are named after a white merchant who briefly owned a ranch in the mid-1800s near present-day downtown.
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18 July 2022

US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE: Agua es Vida - Water is Life

In celebration of Latino Conservation Week, San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex would like to highlight the importance of water in our wildlife refuges and its impact on local communities. Agua es Vida, in Spanish,…
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18 July 2022

Critical Vision: Vista vs Mindsight Una LCW Edición

Como te parece una semana—one week—when we from Latinx/Hispanic roots are not just encouraged pero organized, supported, and led by others que suenan y lucen como nosotros celebrating y [RE]connecting with our (minorities) World.
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14 July 2022

Ninth Annual Latino Conservation Week Kicks Off This Weekend (July 16 –24): Initiative Breaks Down Barriers to the Outdoors, Inspires Tomorrow’s Stewards

From July 16 to July 24, communities throughout the country will enjoy and connect with the great outdoors during the 9th annual Latino Conservation Week (LCW), an initiative of Hispanic Access Foundation. Latino communities, organizations,…
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29 July 2021

Latino Conservation Week 2021 Showed Latinos as Environmental Leaders

With the end of July comes the end of Latino Conservation Week, one of the ways Hispanic Access Foundation corrects inequities in nature conservation and brings Latinos to the forefront of the conversation.
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Latino Conservation Week is a collection of events from variety of organizations. Hispanic Access Foundation is only directly responsible for events in which it is listed as a sponsor. 

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