Mangrove Radio's Environmental Show
Mangrove Radio's environmental show began in the Fall of 2005 with a grant from the New England Biolabs Foundation. Since then, it has promoted the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors necessary to improve the health and sustainability of the Bay of Jiquilisco and its surrounding areas.

The weekly environmental show promotes local knowledge about ecological, biophysical, and evolutionary processes in the region; cultivates understanding and appreciation of the benefits of a healthy ecosystem; dispels negative attitudes towards nature and wildlife; and increases local participation in activities that will improve and sustain them.

The environmental show has become so influential that El Salvador's Ministry of the Environment uses Mangrove Radio's services to raise awareness among people living around the environmentally sensitive the Bay of Jiquilisco.

The staff and volunteers for Mangrove Radio's environmental show have organized public forums and special events to discuss the preservation of the Bay's resources as it engages the community. It also provides an avenue for the communities of the Bajo Lempa to organize and denounce government indifference to issues such as the flooding after Hurricane Stan.

One of the forums organized by Mangrove Radio's team concerned the communities' vulnerability to chronic flooding and its environmental impact. The forum received national media attention and broadcasted the people's demand to the government for a prompt reconstruction of the area following 2005's Hurricane Stan and attention to ecological issues. The Mayor's office of Jiquilisco and various organizations in the region attended.

During March, Mangrove Radio conducted interviews with forest rangers from Nancuchiname Forest to build appreciation and understanding of the forest's role in the local ecoystem. It continues broadcasting environmental PSAs every hour to raise awareness about the negative effects of various activities including deforestation, fishing with dynamite, hunting wild animals, and using fire and poison to kill weeds.

Studies conducted before the start of the show allowed Mangrove Radio to tailor the it to the communities' needs. A follow up study at the end of the project showed that the population's attitudes, behaviors, and level of knowledge of the environment and ways to care for it noticeably increased and improved.