The foundation conducts inventories of marine debris and microplastics on the beaches of the Pablo A. Barrios Wildlife Refuge. These inventories are conducted by citizen scientists to gather important information about the magnitude of the problem of contamination by plastics and other materials in the different ecosystems of the protected area.

Through educational guides and innovative forms, such as mobile applications, our citizen scientists collect information that allows us to inform shared management and conservation decisions.

We are convinced that citizen science or demo-science (scientific democracy) advances scientific knowledge beyond the boundaries of a laboratory or traditional field work. We want to promote research projects that integrate among their main actors professional scientists with the common citizen for the collaborative construction of knowledge.

At Refugio Pedasi we believe that open participation in research projects is a form of social appropriation of science like no other, since citizens become the main actors of this story.

The data collected by communities in inventories serve as the basis for implementing monitoring programs for the area's coasts.

Monitoring programs of the protected area's coasts is in direct compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG 14 Underwater Life and SDG 11 Sustainable Cities.