With the goal of improving its sustainability processes, APAH offers a range of ecosystem services to national and international organizations and institutions. These efforts aim to generate job opportunities for its 200 members and improve the professional growth and opportunities of each graduate. Each service benefits from the technical expertise of the JPC and RRNN teams, as well as expert technical partners from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). The services APAH offers are:
Each Environmental Promoter (JPC graduate) receives extensive training in natural resource management, including community education, GIS, hydrology, and ecology. This includes support for internationally funded conservation and ecological restoration work, carbon project management, green infrastructure, and economic development initiatives. Dozens of JPC graduates currently provide vital roles as Resource Guards in protected areas in Honduras.
APAH members developing an environmental education activity for a World Vision Honduras project in the La Paz region.
Each Environmental Promoter is trained in a variety of technical and interpersonal skills that prepare them for employment in the growing tourism sector, from field guides to operators. Many JPC graduates are employed by tour operators and the hospitality industry across the country, while others have developed their own successful ecotourism businesses such as Mar de Montañas by Promoter Yenny Benítez, Délchorri by Promoter Gilma Díaz or Ruta Guajiquiro, by promoter Danny Cruz, or Yeraldhyn Chávez at Panamosab adventure, among many others.
Yenny Benítez shows her Sea of Mountains, located in Marcala, La Paz.
Trail Building and Wildfire Management in Natural Areas
Each Environmental Promoter is trained in trail and firebreak construction, skills in demand by local and national governments, corporations, and private landowners. The JPC program frequently involves teams of its students and graduates in paid trail construction work, paid for by government contracts or private land managers.
APAH youth carrying out a firebreak patrol activity in the private protected area "El Consejero" in La Esperanza, Intibucá.
Organizations or government agencies that provide technical services, such as water system management, require qualified technicians who can conduct surveys, GIS analysis, project planning, and environmental impact measurement and monitoring. APAH's clients include international universities, NGOs, government agencies, and corporate entities with which APAH maintains relationships.
Young Environmental Promoter and Forestry Engineer Lito Tejada developing a technical assistance activity for community organizations in the El Paraíso region.
For more information about the work APAH does and how you can support its future sustainability plans.
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