Latinos have a strong connection to nature, but often times everyday responsibilities don’t allow us to get outdoors. For this year’s Latino Conservation Week, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada wants to invite you to change that. Bring your family and join us on an early morning hike where you can share stories about the importance of preserving our planet and how we can encourage our community to enjoy the outdoors more often. We will have snacks for the trail!

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeihnyR2brNeYa9KNEREwXSkoMIqtdZ5vtjAfesEwoX3M2aug/viewform

The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada partnered up with the University of Nevada Reno to research the impacts that environmental degradation has on working families, Indigenous peoples, and communities of color. We will have a panel discussion with people that participated in this project and present our initial findings. We think it is important to continue this conversation with communities that are being impacted and what better time than Latino Conservation Week.

There will be Spanish translation.

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeihnyR2brNeYa9KNEREwXSkoMIqtdZ5vtjAfesEwoX3M2aug/viewform

Chipsa Nevada and the League of Conservation Voters are teaming up for a Climate Cookout BBQ focusing on the intersectionality of the environmental movement with the Latino community and racial justice.

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeihnyR2brNeYa9KNEREwXSkoMIqtdZ5vtjAfesEwoX3M2aug/viewform

Join Friends of Basin and Range and Conservation Lands Foundation for an overnight trip to view the dark skies of Basin and Range National Monument. Explore petroglyphs, ancient and modern townsites, and learn more about what makes the landscape so unique.

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeihnyR2brNeYa9KNEREwXSkoMIqtdZ5vtjAfesEwoX3M2aug/viewform

Come out to chat with Hispanic Access Foundation and an Latino Heritage Internship Program intern about their goals to bring a more diversity to the National Park Service. Along with Hispanic Access Foundation will be Tom Mason, an NPS intern from Conservation Legacy, and a volunteer who has been volunteering at the Adventure Station at REI. At the Adventure Station the public can learn outdoor recreation opportunities throughout the area.

Come out to chat with Hispanic Access Foundation and an Latino Heritage Internship Program intern about their goals to bring a more diversity to the National Park Service. Along with Hispanic Access Foundation will be Tom Mason, an NPS intern from Conservation Legacy, and a volunteer who has been volunteering at the Adventure Station at REI. At the Adventure Station the public can learn outdoor recreation opportunities throughout the area.

Dios, Ciencia, y Arte, o God, Science, and Art Summer Program, is a summer program at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church that will run every Saturday morning from July 15 to August 5. Since this year the church has concentrated on water quality in West Orange and the protection of natural resources, the program will have a focus on the environment. The program will bring in people to speak about their careers, including a science student from Rutgers University, teach technologies, manual projects, and advanced mathematics with basic terms. We will make mathematics a tool that students can use for the development of their lives. All are welcome.

Learn more about the event here: https://youtu.be/nfzMdtgmQ5Y

The San Juan National Historic Site will host an event on Sunday, July 23rd, that will provide a
family-oriented space for people to reinterpret their Latino roots through art. The event, named
Pinta tu historia will include 2 main activities: live paintings from the local artist José I. Felix
García, M.A. and several stations with art-related tools and materials for people to either follow
Felix’s models or to paint what they interpret is the history of the park and/or how it connects to
their personal and collective Hispanic roots. Felix has a project titled Reconstrucción Histórica y
Conceptualización A Través del Arte in which he aims to reinterpret different parts of the Puerto
Rican history (including the park) through his vision and artwork. Also, there will be special
materials for kids to create their own artistic pins. For this event, we will provide several stations
that will consist of long tables around the main plaza at Castillo San Cristóbal in which people
can actively join and create their own paintings. There will be a panel in which people can hang
their paintings after they finish to create a collective piece of history through art that can be
shared in social media. The activity will be hosted and supported by Latino Heritage Intern
Yaneris Soto, volunteers, and park rangers.
As a complement of the activity, we will invite a Bomba group for the enjoyment of our visitors.
This type of music is deeply inserted in our Hispanic and Caribbean roots and we expect people
to actively integrate into this artistic expression.

Starting from our joint table at the Farmer`s Market and ending at CARECEN (Central American Resource Center) Ranger Mike Balis will give a program entitled "Making a New Home: The Founding of Latino D.C." It will cover the many challenges Latinos overcame to build their community within the nation`s capital from the 1960s through the 1980s. Ranger Carlos De La Torre will translate the program into Spanish.

The Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science concerned about environmental issues and as way to promote environmental understanding, during the Latino Week Conservation will be giving tours in the Museum related to their exhibit about The Chihuahuan Desert (this exhibit comprise living animals from the desert), July 18, 19 & 20, at 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 and 1:00, and on Wednesday 19 our curator of living species will give a special class about endangered species of the Chihuahuan Desert at 11:00 am. Please feel free to join us during this week, there is no fee.