Tag Archives: Brett Jenks

Op-ed by Rare in the New York Times: How to Catch Fish and Save Fisheries

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The journal Science recently published the first comprehensive analysis of more than 10,000 fisheries — roughly 80 percent of our global fish catch. The conclusion: fish populations worldwide are swiftly declining. This global analysis paints a stark new picture of a global ocean fished to exhaustion in an increasingly hungry world.

So, why are we hopeful? It’s because the analysis of global fisheries has a silver lining. We have not reached a point of no return. We have time. Solutions exist. Continue reading →

A Rare Approach to Conservation

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Rare CEO Brett Jenks

Rare CEO Brett Jenks gave an entertaining presentation at the 2011 WWF Fuller Symposium, outlining how Rare uses social marketing and community engagement to change behaviors that threaten habitats and livelihoods around the world. Continue reading →

Yao Ming Visits the wetlands of Dongzhaigang

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Yao Ming Visits the wetlands of Dongzhaigang

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 →

Hope for Oceans: New global partnership brings powerful forces together

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Rare is proud to announce its participation in a powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests that are joining together under the banner of a Global Partnership for Oceans to confront widely documented problems of over-fishing, marine degradation and habitat loss. Continue reading →

Brett Jenks: Reason to be optimistic about the environment (video)

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video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player If the above embedded video does not display, click here to view it. Rare CEO Brett Jenks was at the Aspen Ideas Festival and sat down for a few minutes with genConnect to discuss how … Continue reading →

Notes from a rare planet: More than 900 species have been added to the endangered species list this year

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More than 900 species have been added to the endangered species list this year (MongayBay) More than 19,000 species are now classified in one of three threatened categories: Vulnerable, Endangered, and Critically Endangered, a jump of 8,219 species since 2000. Brighter … Continue reading →

Chairman Emerita Wendy Paulson hosts an eco-tour of one of Rare’s sites with special guest Yao Ming

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Rare, an international environmental conservation organization, today invited a group of leaders in business, government and the environment to the mangrove forests of northern Hainan. The Dongzhaigang Nature Reserve is home to critical wetlands and highly endangered species, representing natural … Continue reading →

Brett Jenks: We are approaching a tipping point in our relationship with nature

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Rare’s CEO Brett Jenks has a great Q&A with Philanthropy News Digest, where he answers numerous questions about some of our biggest environmental issues. I strongly urge you to check out the Q&A, but here are some highlights: On the … Continue reading →

“Let’s go out there and find out what’s working” (How to Change Things When Change is Hard)

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“Focusing on what is working, however small, and generating enthusiasm for taking what works, taking a bright spot and replicating it and taking a bright spot to scale is a very simple but powerful idea.” — Brett Jenks If the above embedded … Continue reading →