Listen to a recent podcast with Martha Piper, Rare’s senior vice president of strategy and growth and Amanda Leland, vice president of oceans at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). They discuss a promising solution called Fish Forever. Fish Forever is a global initiative to restore near-shore fisheries in the developing tropics. Continue reading
Five years ago, many of Loreto Bay’s fishing cooperatives operated illegally, overfished their waters and fought among themselves. Something significant has changed. From 2008 to 2010, Rare partnered with Loreto Bay National Park to run a marketing campaign. Continue reading
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
For those of you that like acronyms, here is another, courtesy of Rare – The BROP, or Barrier Removal Operation Plan for short. “Barrier Removal” plays a central role in Rare’s Theory of Change — K+A+IC+BR >BC>TR>CR. Put another way, … Continue reading
Less than one percent of the world’s oceans are protected. People and governments all over the world are trying to get that coverage much higher, because fish stocks are being depleted at an alarming rate (and fish stocks are completely … Continue reading