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Activities: 

• January 2008, Report on Sandwatch activities in the Dominican Republic in 2007 produced.  More than 800 students and 40 teachers are working on Sandwatch on the south coast of the island; read the report (Spanish only) and view their associated PowerPoint presentation (1.8 mb) - Great photos!
• June 2007, Sandwatch Team from The Colegio Santa Teresita does a field trip to a local beach
• May 2007, Sandwatch Team publishes their plans for International Biodiversity Day and National Environment Week . (Documents are in PDF format)
• February 2007, an article is published in the Special Issue of the Sandwatcher newsletter  describing how the national committee is trying to make Sandwatch a long lasting and sustainable activity in the country
• January 2007, two meetings of the Sandwatch Technical Meeting were held, on 17 and 24 January 2007 (see Minutes of these meetings)  Meeting 1 - Meeting 2  Following this a Sandwatch Schedule Jan -May '07 for field work and related activities to coincide with national celebrations was prepared for the first half of 2007
• December 2006, an article on the national Sandwatch initiative is published in the Second Edition of The Sandwatcher newsletter
• December 2006, a delegation of three persons, including two students participated in the Sandwatch Youth Symposium in Trinidad and Tobago ; view their PowerPoint presentation (4mb)

• The Centro Educativo Las Americas submitted an entry to the UNESCO Community Sandwatch competition in 2005. Students, with the help of their teacher, Carlos Navarro, measured the beach and dunes at Caldera, Baní - these are among the highest dunes in the Caribbean. This monitoring has been ongoing for the past 3 years. They also involved other schools in the activities and conducted a beach clean-up.

• Mr. Carlos Navarro, together with a student, Mr. Juan Mejia Reyes from the Liceo Secundario Gaston F. Deligne participated in the second Sandwatch workshop in Dominica in 2003.
• Between 2001 and 2003, Mr. Carlos Navarro, together with the Departments of Education, Natural Resources, and Culture, and the National Commission for UNESCO, involved 12 schools  and more than 100 students in Sandwatch monitoring activities at different beaches in the Dominican Republic. Pollution problems, particularly from the rivers were among the problems identified.
• Mr. Carlos Navarro of the Centro Educativo Las America, attended the first Sandwatch workshop in St. Lucia in 2001

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