Over the past two years, 12 Rare Conservation Fellows ran marketing campaigns promoting sustainable fishing throughout the Philippines. The campaigns’ most powerful marketing tools were the charismatic sea creature mascots and community members who brought them to life. Continue reading
Rare Conservation Fellow Renante “Tian” Cempron, a former youth leader and the tenth child of a fisherman, has spent the last two years promoting sustainable fishing in Hambongan, Philippines. Continue reading
This summer, Rare launched four new programs in Indonesia, the Philippines, Micronesia and Latin America to train 50 conservation leaders about social marketing, behavior change and inspiring pride in natural resources. 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
Over the week, I got a lot of great information while talking with the fishermen and their families, as well as the mayors and Rare’s hardworking fellows. 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
Ayoke Island’s MPA was named one of the Philippines’ top 10 marine protected areas, no small feat in a country with 1,600 MPAs, the most in the world. But as recently as December the community faced a real test when the MPA was dynamited during the town’s fiesta, when no one was volunteering at the guardhouse. Continue reading
One of the biggest challenges facing sustainable fishing in the Philippines is the prevalence of dynamite fishing, where fishers create an improvised bomb out of a rum or Coke bottle and ammonium sulfate. 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
Rare Conservation Fellow Cathy Demesa writes about her experience being interviewed by The New York Times. Continue reading