Join us for Latino Conservation Week with a Congressional reception featuring art celebrating Castner Range!

Hear from members of the movement, and special guest, Representative Veronica Escobar.

Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine, and nonalcoholic beverages while learning about the effort to designate El Paso’s Castner Range as a National Monument

Latino Conservation Week Closing Celebration

Join us one last time at Mariposa Park in Boise for a special gathering to wrap up and celebrate Latino Conservation Week. Including traditional danzas by Danza Azteca Tonatiuh. Onsite parking available. Food Truck will be available.

Family Fun Fishing 

Learn to bait a fishing pole, cast, and maybe catch a fish! Fishing experience is not necessary.

Bees Are Our friends!

Meet a beekeeper! Join us for a brief intro level conversation with local beekeeper Melinda Jean Stafford. Let’s chat about why we need bees, why they need us, and how we can BEE friends. Honey tasting available. Onsite parking available.

We will meet at the pollinator habitat in Garden City (behind the Garden City Library off the Boise Greenbelt). After visiting with our local beekeeper and a tour of the Pollinator Habitat attendees are invited to a leisure walk on the greenbelt and wrap up at a refreshing water destination to enjoy the river (optional).

Join us at Mariposa Park in Boise for a special gathering to kick off Latino Conservation Week.

Incorporated elements: A special Proclamation by the City of Boise, special guest City Councilwoman Lisa Sanchez, and a land acknowledgement by Jillian Putra from the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes. Various community partners will offer family-friendly crafts and activities. 

Hispanic Access Foundation in collaboration with Defenders of Wildlife will be hosting an event at the proposed Western Riverside County Wildlife Refuge on July 23, 2022 as part of Latino Conservation Week in support of legislation designating the Western Riverside County National Wildlife Refuge. Rep. Ken Calvert and Rep. Mark Takano recently reintroduced legislation, the Wildlife Refuge Conservation and Recreation for the Community Act (H.R. 972), which would establish this important urban refuge that will serve millions of Californians. 

You will get the opportunity to mountain bike with a local mountain biking club, enjoy a hike and enjoy some activities with your kiddos. If you are interested in mountain biking please arrive at 7:00am. Don't forget to bring your bike and any other essential items you will need. If you are interested in the hike or activities, please arrive at 8:30 am. Don't forget to bring sunscreen, a hat, a refillable water bottle, and any other essential items you need. 

We will be providing breakfast burritos, beverages, and other goodies! Please let us know if you will be joining us so we can add you to this list. If you have any questions please fell free to reach out to Juan at juan@hispanicaccess.org. 

Title: Naturaleza y Comunidad: Intro to iNaturalist & Nature ID

Where: Springfield Armory National Historic Site

When: July 17, 2022, 12 - 3 pm

Latino Outdoors Western MA and Latino Outdoors Connecticut are teaming up to celebrate Latino Conservation Week, and we hope that you will join us!

This week we celebrate the Latine community in the outdoors and conservation! We are hosting an introduction to identifying living things you find in nature using iNaturalist, a free app and website that allows you to share information with the global community on what you see. iNaturalist can prepare you to identify the plants, animals, and insects that you come across anytime. When we use iNaturalist to identify a plant, animal or insect - the information helps scientists and conservation professionals all over the world. We can participate in conservation from anywhere - for free - as long as we know how to use iNaturalist!

We will be offering a free lunch to start the outing and then going through a quick introduction to iNaturalist and how to use it to identify the nature around you! We’ll stay on the Springfield Armory campus and walk around together to see what we can identify!

Coming from CT and interested in a gas card to offset the cost of attending? Please register and we will reach out with details. 

LO Western Mass and LO Connecticut also invite you to follow us all week for chances to win awesome LO swag and other prizes! 

Latino Conservation Week: Disfrutando y Conservando Nuestra Tierra is an initiative of Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF). Latino Conservation Week was created to support the Latino community getting into the outdoors and participating in activities to protect our natural resources. For more information, please visit: www.latinoconservationweek.com

On Saturday July 17th, for a Latino Conservation Week event organized by Orange Audubon Society, Wildlife Drive Ambassadors will be on the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive to welcome Spanish-speaking visitors. 

Spanish-speaking Ambassadors will provide information on how to visit the extremely popular free 11-mile drive. The drive is part of the St. Johns River Water Management District’s lake restoration area for Lake Apopka. It is famous for its diversity of bird life and alligators.

This event will publicize the free Wildlife Drive to the Hispanic community in Central Florida and recruit Hispanic volunteers for the Wildlife Drive Ambassador Program. COVID-19 precautions observed.

Latino Conservation Week, July 16-24, 2022, was created to support the Latino community in activities to protect our natural resources. An initiative of Hispanic Access Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., Latino Conservation Week https://latinoconservationweek.com/ demonstrates support by Hispanics for permanently protecting our land, water, and air.

In Collaboration with Latino Conservation Week, the Oxnard Birder's Club will be hosting a Birding 101 Workshop on Saturday, July 23rd at 8:00am at Hedrick Ranch, Santa Paula, CA.

In this workshop we will introduce methods of bird watching and current restoration efforts in the Santa Clara River Watershed. All participants will receive a Rite in the Rain notebook, and the first 12 people to sign up and join will receive a free waterproof quick-guide of Southern California Birds! Food and drinks will also be provided! The maximum capacity for this event will be 20 participants.