Toledo groups receive grant to monitor coastline
In other development news from the south the Toledo Institute for Development and the Environment, “TIDE,” has signed an agreement with the Interamerican Development Bank for community based environmental monitoring of the district’s coastline. The I.D.B. will provide TIDE with one hundred thousand U.S. dollars to establish a monitoring system to analyze coastal changes as well as a specific model in the village of Monkey River. Monkey River has been the scene of particularly devastating beach erosion. The agreement was signed by TIDE’s Wil Maheia and I.D.B.’s Jose Teixeira.
