Pride of Place: A powerful emotion motivates athletes, local communities and me

Pride in Action

As Rare’s programs evolve and deepen in complexity, they will always retain the foundation upon which they were built: pride of place. The power of pride supports upland farmers signing reciprocal water agreements or fisher’s adopting TURF-reserves (territorial user rights in fisheries). Pride also motivates the wider communities to create an enabling and supportive environment for resource–user behavior change, just as Olympic spectators encourage athletes to unimaginable success. Continue reading

No Way, Dodo: The finless porpoise gets a boost from Pride

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Over the past year, Baoyu employed Rare’s signature social marketing tools inspiring communities to take pride in the finless porpoise and stop behaviors that contribute to its demise. Continue reading

A trip that showed the many successful campaigns at present and in the works in the Philippines

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

Rare trustee Ruth Yeoh discusses a sustainable housing program in China

“What I’ve learned is that they will actually cut down the rate of deforestation by at least 20 percent by building these new homes.” Rare trustee Ruth Yeoh joined CEO Brett Jenks and VP. Asia Nigel Sizer during part of … Continue reading