Pioneering island conservation at 11 sites in Micronesia The mystical seascape of Micronesia connects more than 600 islands across one million square miles of the western Pacific Ocean. Roughly 150,000 people live on the … Continue reading
Impact on personal, professional and planetary levels Eight master’s degrees, two pregnancies, one marriage, two home purchases, one birth. Luis quit smoking. Jaime gained eight kilograms. Marco lost just as many. The 11 Rare Conservation Fellows who just completed their … Continue reading
Largest illegal fishing case in Dampier Strait December 15, 2011 was the patrol team’s lucky day – for the illegal fishers, not so lucky. Representatives from the department of forestry, department of fishery, local patrol team and police force had … Continue reading
Fuel-efficient stove program earns Ford award In early December, Rare Conservation Fellow Xiahong Li traveled from his home in northern China to Beijing to receive the prestigious Ford Environmental Award. He won third place in the category of communications for … Continue reading
A few years ago lobster fishers in Bermuda put holes in their traps to let unwanted fish escape. No one tested them to prove that these escape gaps worked. When Ayana Elizabeth Johnson was selecting her dissertation topic, her advisor … Continue reading
The squeals of screaming schoolgirls reverberated throughout the packed auditorium as a troop of Filipino dancers interpreted the significance of the ocean and marine biodiversity. On October 25, Rare Conservation Fellow Renante “Tian” Cempron kicked off a campaign to protect … Continue reading
César Laura partners with Rare for the second time Seven years ago, 75 percent of the people in Oxapampa, Peru did not know anything about their neighboring national park. Rare Conservation Fellow César Laura partnered with Rare to change that … Continue reading
On Jan. 6, 2012, Rare, in partnership with National Geographic, announced the grand-prize winner and runners-up of “Solution Search: Turning the Tide for Coastal Fisheries.” Continue reading
A week or so after returning from visiting our China campaign managers in Kunming, I was back in the air again, this time heading west to Ecuador, a country of geological and geographic contrasts. From the offshore islands of the Galapagos … Continue reading
Hidden under the ocean’s surface, most of us do not realize that coral reefs represent one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. They are often referred to as the “rainforests of the oceans.” They support an estimated twenty-five … Continue reading