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Puerto Rican Parrot Population Reaches Record Numbers in the Río Abajo State Forest

Submitted on 31 May 2022 - 7:07pm

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Gerardo E. Alvarado León

For the first time since 1992, when the Puerto Rican parakeet aviary was established in the Río Abajo State Forest in this municipality, more than 200 will fly freely in their habitat, after 60 chicks were born in the wild during this breeding season, which runs through June.

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Polytechnic students create novel twill-based filament for 3-D printers

Submitted on 26 May 2022 - 5:45pm

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José Ayala Gordián

A group of chemical engineering students at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico seeks to revolutionize the emerging field of 3D printing by developing a novel sargassum-based filament, which would not only allow the manufacture of all kinds of products for consumers, but would also give a use to the tons of this seaweed that congests the coasts of the island and that, in the future, could create a new economic sector and jobs.

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Oportunidad de empleo en conservación y manejo de vida silvestre

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Visitor Services Support Member - Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge

ACE EPIC placements provide young adults with focused, hands-on opportunities to work alongside and under the guidance of agency mentors as they apply their knowledge of resource management on their path to becoming the next generation of resource and land managers.

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Becas PhD paisajes tropicales

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Cuatro becas doctorales disponibles para proyectos relacionados a la restauración de bosques y paisajes tropicales degradados, parte de un proyecto de reforestación en conjunto con comunidades en las Filipinas. Las becas son a traves de la University of the Sunshine Coast en Australia. 

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GAP-Good Agricultural Process

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A medida que aumenta el consumo de productos frescos, la cantidad de brotes de enfermedades transmitidas por los alimentos asociados con estos productos, ha ido aumentando constantemente.  Para minimizar el riesgo de contaminación microbiana en los productos de las fincas, fueron creadas las Buenas Prácticas Agrícolas conocidas como GAPs.  No te puedes perder tan importante curso.

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