Mobile Firm Shockoe Creates App to Help Save the World's Second Largest Reef

[Judi Lynn]

Shockoe partnered with Roatan Marine Park, a non profit in Honduras, to determine if a mobile app can make a difference in its mission to protect the Mesoamerican Reef.


RICHMOND, VA (PRWEB) JUNE 08, 2017

Shockoe partnered with Roatan Marine Park, a non profit in Honduras, to determine if a mobile app can make a difference in its mission to protect the Mesoamerican Reef.

The barrier reef system stretches nearly 700 miles (over 1000 km) from the tip of the Yucatan in Mexico down through Guatemala, Belize, and finally the Bay islands in Honduras. It’s here that the Roatan Marine Park (RMP), a small not-for-profit based on Roatan island, does its part to protect the reef from invasive species, poaching, dredging, mangrove cutting, and a host of other threats.

“Education and community outreach is a huge part of our work. That’s the long game. But in the short term we have seen a lot of traction and improvement through our patrol efforts,” - says Eduardo Rico, Executive Director of RMP, noting, “but we just can’t be everywhere at once.”

A Drop in the Ocean

RMP has a patrol crew of just six people, rotating night and day, tasked with conducting environmental inspections and following up on cases where people are poaching protected species such as conch and turtle, spearfishing illegally, or a number of other environmental infractions that harm the reef.

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