Enfrentando la falta de la naturaleza y creando oportunidad para la comunidad latina

GreenLatinos advocates for the U.S. Congress to fully fund the Department of the Interior to address the 'Nature Gap'—the disproportionate lack of access to natural spaces and health benefits for Latino communities. The organization highlights the severe underrepresentation of Latino history in the National Park Service and the lack of diversity within the federal workforce, noting that Latinas earn only 54 cents for every dollar earned by non-Hispanic white men. GreenLatinos calls for the equitable conservation of 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030 and the creation of more career paths in public land management for Latino communities.

• Latino cultural history is significantly underrepresented in U.S. public land sites: only 24 of over 400 National Park Service sites specifically conserve Latino history, and there are 190 Latino heritage sites among nearly 96,000 sites in the National Historic Register managed by the National Park Service. Additionally, there is little evidence that any of the 1,000 marine protected areas conserve Latino stories.
• The U.S. Department of the Interior workforce does not reflect national demographics. In fiscal year 2021, six out of 11 agencies fell below the Department's average of 26.2 percent representation for ethnic and root identity categories other than "White" or "Unidentified". Furthermore, 78.4 percent of the 887,383 job applications audited in FY 2021 were from white applicants, and 81.6 percent of those selected were white.
• Latino communities face disproportionate environmental burdens, including extreme heat, flooding, drought, and the worst air and water pollution in the country, a phenomenon described as the "Nature Gap" (Distancia de la Naturaleza), which refers to the lack of access to natural spaces and public health benefits.
• There is a severe economic disparity in public land administration, where Latinas earn 54 cents for every dollar earned by a non-Hispanic white man.
• To resolve environmental and racial injustices, the federal government must equitably conserve 30 percent of the country's lands and waters by 2030, protect endangered species, and adapt public land management to climate change.

APA

GreenLatinos (2023). Enfrentando la falta de la naturaleza y creando oportunidad para la comunidad latina. GreenLatinos. https://www.greenlatinos.org/enfrentando-la-falta-de-la-naturaleza-y-creando-oportunidad-para-la-comunidad-latina/

Chicago

GreenLatinos. Enfrentando la falta de la naturaleza y creando oportunidad para la comunidad latina. GreenLatinos, 2023. https://www.greenlatinos.org/enfrentando-la-falta-de-la-naturaleza-y-creando-oportunidad-para-la-comunidad-latina/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{greenlatinos2023enfrentando, author = {GreenLatinos}, title = {{Enfrentando la falta de la naturaleza y creando oportunidad para la comunidad latina}}, publisher = {GreenLatinos}, year = {2023}, month = aug, url = {https://www.greenlatinos.org/enfrentando-la-falta-de-la-naturaleza-y-creando-oportunidad-para-la-comunidad-latina/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }