Another great advocacy bootcamp is in the books! This intensive experiential learning experience connected students from Catawba College and Wake Forest University with experts in environmental advocacy, scientific field research, advocacy-oriented photojournalism, and grassroots organizing. Highlights included water sampling, aerial tours over animal factory farming operations, and engaging directly with impacted community members.

Our latest installment profiles Bocas de Ceniza Waterkeeper, Liliana Guerrero. Liliana has been working since 2010 to protect the Magdalena River watershed, which supports more than half of Colombia’s population.

A new lawsuit filed by Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, Healthy Gulf, Sierra Club and its Delta Chapter, and Waterkeeper Alliance challenges the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s East Grand Lake project in the Atchafalaya Basin. Represented by the Environmental Law Clinic at Tulane University School, the groups are contesting the Corps’ granting of a Clean Water Act section 404 permit allowing the dredging and filling of impacted wetlands.

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