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🌊📘 Recently came across an engaging read about ocean conservation and its vital importance. The article beautifully dives into various communication strategies to promote ocean preservation. Here are some fascinating bits that caught my attention: - Exploring the impact of different communication styles on raising awareness about ocean protection. - Learning about the use of visuals and storytelling to make environmental messages more effective and relatable. - Discovering the significance of engaging with different cultural and social groups to emphasize the global importance of protecting our oceans. 🌊🌍 What are your thoughts on the innovative ways to communicate and advocate for a healthier marine environment? Share your feelings and let's discuss together! https://lnkd.in/gFdVmTUH

Three (3) #Jobopenings, or better yet, #careeropenings at the Musconetcong Watershed Association; (1) Education and Outreach Manager, (2) Watershed Restoration Manager, and (3) Camp Counselor. This is a very #missiondriven organization, with motivated board and staff who care about their #watershed and the people who live within it. They have diverse project types, and each day will bring a different opportunity. They work on #damremoval, #riverrestoration, #stormwatermanagement, #historicpreservation, #watershedplanning, #publicoutreach and #publiceducation, #waterqualitymonitoring, and #riveraccess, to name a few project types. Through Camp Musky, they are teaching the next generation to appreciate the #river, its #aquaticlife, and the watershed. Please share and spread the word. The Nature Conservancy River Network American Rivers American Fisheries Society U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) USDA NJ Department of Environmental Protection Trout Unlimited World Fish Migration Foundation Association of NJ Environmental Commissions American Sustainable Business Network Rutgers University Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Watson Institute Kean University Ramapo College of New Jersey Rowan University New Jersey Institute of Technology The College of New Jersey Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) - Mid-Atlantic Chapter Princeton Hydro Friends of the NJ School of Conservation

🚨 Get Involved with NPCA! 🚨 We are developing two key strategies to guide the future of conservation lands and watershed management in the Niagara Peninsula watershed. 🌳 Conservation Area Strategy & Watershed-Based Resource Management Strategy💦 Through this process, we will better understand the issues and risks we face today, how our programs and services have evolved, assess their effectiveness, and identify gaps, challenges, and opportunities, together with the watershed community. LEARN MORE at the link below. Your input is key to the success of these strategies! #DiscoverNPCA #ConservationAreas #WatershedManagement #Conservation

PALAWAN, BROOKES POINT, of all places for logging to occur, this one was allegedly in the middle of an NGP project (National Greening Program) in Barangay Calasaguen. First of all, forested areas do not need to be under an NGP project because the latter is designed to plant in denuded areas. And second, Palawan is the country's Last Frontier for forests and is under a total log ban, so how is this happening? The answer is simple, NO enforcement. "When we go on community forest patrols, we see tribal people, poachers, and loggers, but no forest enforcement officers" laments an NGO paraenforcer of PNNI. It seems most of them are present in heavily-funded trainging seminars on environmental enforcement. But ironically, the education they receive is the one that prevents them from going to the forests. Good food, airconditioned lodging, and sensationalized speeches are always a treat compared to the humid sweaty mosquito-laden life-threatening work of catching a chainsaw in the forests. This, and having no funds for an enforcement operation, leaves the authorities looking forward to the next training and skipping the scheduled forest patrol. So you see more selfies of trainings, speeches, seminars, and awards, than actual confiscations and arrests. And when you do chance on the latter, it will be confiscated wood instead of the chainsaw, because the training didn't teach the techniques on securing the perimeter allowing the loggers to flee with their unit and cut another day. Sigh.

Saying it out loud makes me accountable! I have been saying that I wanted to volunteer to support Archelon in Greece, as a volunteer, ever since I first set foot on Kalamaki beach 9 years ago! Well this morning, on my daily walk along the beach, I bumped into 3 volunteers and got chatting and asking questions about one of the nests I had noticed had shielding around it meaning that 🐢 are ready to hatch at any point when the sun goes down. By the end of our little conversation, I told them I was going to do it and we said 💥 "see you next August to start an 8 weeks programme". What Archelon does: ➡️ Take actions for the protection and conservation of sea turtles and their habitats. ➡️ Rescue and rehabilitation of injured sea turtles. ➡️ Monitoring of nesting areas. ➡️ Nest protection and research. ➡️ Public awareness and Environmental education. ✔ Saying something out loud makes me more accountable. ✔ An accountability buddy helps you stay motivated and on track to success. ❓ Want a coach who will hold you accountable for your wants and actions, by having your back but also by challenging you? Get in touch👋 #coaching #motivation #changereadiness #yourlife #sayingitoutloud #accountability #success

Conservation training to become a conservation cadre

What a great project.

GRANT OPPORTUNITY Program: Ruth D. Gates Grant Program Entity: NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program Location: United States Deadline: February 15, 2024 Description: “The purpose of this notice is to solicit financial assistance applications that will build capacity in States with coral reef ecosystems (defined as the states of Florida and Hawaii; territories of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, & the United States Virgin Islands; or any other territory or possession of the United States or separate sovereign in free association with the United States that contains a coral reef ecosystem) by strengthening local nongovernmental organizations’ and/or other interested stakeholder groups’ ability to participate in future coral reef stewardship partnerships, as outlined in the reauthorized Coral Reef Conservation Act.” Projects funded through this competition must address one of two priorities: PRIORITY 1: Local Coral Community Group Support -Applications submitted under the Local Coral Community Group Support priority should propose work plans over a duration of 12 to 24 months (1 to 2 years). Each application should not request more than $50,000 in total Federal funds per geographic region (counties, islands, or States) in which the project will be performed. Applications that propose projects across multiple geographic regions may request proportionally higher levels of Federal funds. PRIORITY 2: National Coral Conservation Support -Applications submitted under the National Coral Conservation Support priority will be implemented through either a grant or cooperative agreement and should propose work plans over a duration of 12 to 48 months (1 to 4 years). Each application should request no more than $75,000 in Federal funds per year for projects with regional beneficiaries & no more than $150,000 per year in Federal funds for projects with national beneficiaries. For more information: https://lnkd.in/e9Bd26ec #conservationopportunity #conservationopportunitypr #grantopportunities #noaa #coralreefconservation #unitedstates

As per Aaron’s post, the Gold Coast dunes are definitely in good condition adding much needed “nature based” reliance . This is not luck but a direct result of: 1. A history of community appreciation* of the dune value as an important part of a resiliant coastal system, and 2. The implementation by Council of both physical dune vegetation works** supported by town planning policies***. * The storms in 1950s & 60s provided a clear demonstration of the physical & economic benefits of well vegetated urban dune systems when the severe storms in that period removed the then narrow and poorly vegetated dune systems by waves and winds (1967 photo following shows the eroded state. The wave storm cut redistributed sand from the upper visible beach and formed large and useful stormbars offshore while the strong onshore winds deposited sand from the beach and dunes on esplandes and beachfront parks and lawns where it was lost from the active beach system. These erosion events decimated the local tourist industry and the lessions became embedded in the GC dna. ** Dune systems were created to seaward of the seawalls after the first upper beach mass nourishments in the late 1970’s (see following 1975 photo of surfers Paradise with fenced off but bare dunal areas) and refined in the 1980’s with the second wave of large scale nourishments (upper beach and nearshore). A lot was learned about native dune vegation from experimentation and the Qld Govt dune research station at the northern end of the city. We initially planted the dunes with native plants sourced from the reseach station and used planes and helicoptors to aerial fertilise the new dune vegetation. Now there are large stocks of native vegetation that re-establises naturally after erosion events. ***One key dune builder was the policy we introduced in the mid-80’s that all excess sand from building sites within 500m**** of the seawall line was to be placed along the dunes, vegetated and stabilised with fences. Over 2Mm3 of sand has been added to the dunal system and vegetated by developers at no cost to council. Previously sand excavated for high rise basements was sold by developers. Guidelines were developed for this work and added to the town plan in ~1990 as policy #15. This policy has been developed and different catagories of dunes added ranging from to intensive public non-urban to cater for different uses and pressures. **** This benchmark policy first was adopted in 1985 as part of our initial preparation for SLR. I took the draft policy with a setback distance of 100m to Council’s then Beaches and Waterways committee with the argument that a healthy beach system added value to beachfront deveopments but expecting a pushback as it was not going to be popular with developers. I was very surprised when the Committee chair, Cnr Comber, amended it to 500m! A great legacy to building beach resilence in the face of SLR that has been adopted, with other GC practices around the world.