AMBAS is a non-profit community organization composed of women, and whose purpose is to work for the conservation of coastal marine resources in the Impossible Conservation Area – Barra de Santiago, El Salvador. Since 2000, it has been working in natural resources conservation; it currently has a co-management agreement for the mangrove forest and the Ramsar Barra de Santiago site by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN). One of its purposes is to work for the conservation of the species of sea turtles that nest in that site, working on environmental awareness in the surrounding communities on the coastal strip.