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
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
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
The fabled chocolate hills. Note: This is Rare’s Senior Vice President of Global Programs Paul Butler’s sixth and final blog post in a series about his recent trip to the Philippines and Indonesia to monitor Rare’s conservation work in the … Continue reading
“If we lose the Coral Triangle, we lose the most marine biodiversity the world has to offer.” Mike Henley, is an animal keeper and aquarist at the Smithsonian National Zoo’s Invertebrate Exhibit. As a keeper for the last five years, … Continue reading
“When the program is done, the Coral Triangle is going to have a legion of community spokespeople that can be the voice of what communities need for more sustainable development.” If the above embedded video does not display,
The story of the people of San Francisco in the Philippines is a very sad one, yet also one of survival, resilience and pride. The Municipality of San Francisco was very sadly the victim of a major landslide in which about 100 … Continue reading
Investing in forests could save the world (Market Watch) “Every one of us, all 7 billion people on Earth, has our physical, economic and spiritual health tied to the health of our forest ecosystems.” “If deforestation continues on an unmitigated … Continue reading
Coral ‘Network’ can protect Asia-Pac fish stocks (insciences) “Research by Dr Johnathan Kool of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University, and his colleagues, has established that the richest marine region on Earth – … Continue reading
Biologists help endangered penguins find true love (Treehugger) “Once a match has been approved, the couple is moved to a more intimate setting downstairs. “Candlelight and romance,” Hume calls it. If the penguins hit it off — and they usually … Continue reading