Swiss Re said it has awarded $70,000 to The Nature Conservancy for a river cleanup project on the island of Jamaica.

The money is being given as part of Swiss Re's International ReSource Award competition and will be presented Thursday at a ceremony in Kingston attended by representatives of The Nature Conservancy, the Jamaican government and Swiss Re, the company said.

The Conservancy project, Swiss Re said, aims to significantly reduce the use of illegal agrochemical poisoning agents to harvest fish, shrimp and crayfish in Jamaica's Rio Grande valley.

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