This has been a year of great impact for Rare. When I became CEO 12 years ago, there were a handful of employees and about $20,000 in the bank. In June, we hired our hundredth staff member, and we closed out a 2012 budget of over $15 million. But to me it is not about getting bigger. It is about getting better.
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A Rare team of eight, including a giant leopard grouper mascot, joined 8,000 delegates in Hyderabad, India, in mid-October. The 11th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) met to strategize on how to meet 20 internationally agreed-upon biodiversity targets and improve countries’ implementation and funding of biodiversity protection in their national development plans. Continue reading
The popular Green Living program dives into Rare’s work in the Philippines getting Filipino youth involved in local conservation efforts. Continue reading
“The most important thing is interacting with people,” says Marco. “That is the fundamental element that Rare has taught me in order to achieve a change in behavior.” Continue reading
Two years ago, Sulistyaningrum and nine other conservationists in Indonesia and Timor-Leste partnered with Rare to learn social marketing tools and systems to lead change in their communities. In early May, the ten fellows celebrated the completion of Rare’s two-year training and implementation program. All ten Pride campaigns built a sense of ownership around fishery management. Though each fellow confronted different hurdles and achieved a range of successes, they all managed to inspire fishing-dependent villages to take pride in their marine resources. Continue reading
The plan is to leverage Rare’s expertise with Pride campaigns for sustainable management of small-scale fishing by combining Pride campaigns with no-fishing reserves, and with establishment of property rights for local fishers over their local fishing grounds. Continue reading
Marybeth and the mayor were working together not just to enact 24/7 volunteer guarding at the marine protected area (MPA), but to start a critically important program to register fishermen. Continue reading
Written by Suzannah Evans who is researching a book on the role of fish in food security with Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless. The northeast coast of Mindanao island in the Philippines is home to a series of small towns comprised … Continue reading
Basketball star and conservationist Yao Ming visited the wetlands of Dongzhaigang with Rare CEO Brett Jenks and Rare Chair Emerita Wendy Paulson to see preservation efforts firsthand. Continue reading
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 … Continue reading