Sixteen students from the Northern Marianas Trade Institute, together with their Island Ecology instructor, Maureen Sebangiol, and Micronesian Islands Nature Alliance\u2019s Tasi Watch rangers, Delfin Camacho and Daniel Kaipat, participated in a cleanup at Wing Beach on June 8 in recognition of World Ocean Day. <\/p>\n
Sebangiol invited MINA to her classroom the previous day to do a presentation on the work that MINA does, and the importance of community involvement in these efforts. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese students are the first cohort working to achieve their diplomas through the NMTI\u2019s Adult Vocational Technical High School,\u201d said Sebangiol. \u201cGetting them out of the classroom and on to the beach helps them understand how much difference each person doing the right thing to maintain our island\u2019s beauty can make.\u201d<\/p>\n
Expressing surprise at the limited amount of trash found at Wing Beach, one student said, \u201cIt looks like the message that MINA is getting out to the community about keeping litter off the beaches is starting to sink in. If only those who use the beach pavilions on the weekends would get it, that would be real progress.\u201d <\/p>\n
The students left the cleanup, vowing to stay committed and involved in the work of keeping the CNMI\u2019s \u201cland and sea litter-free.\u201d<\/p>\n
See MINA\u2019s Facebook page or contact minaoutreach@gmail.com for more information. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sixteen students from the Northern Marianas Trade Institute, together with their Island Ecology instructor, Maureen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21559,554,421,21551],"class_list":["post-278016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-island-ecology","tag-mina","tag-wing-beach","tag-world-ocean-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}