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WE NEED YOUR HELP TO CONTINUE (Y)OUR WORK!
Dear Friends of Mangroves The time has come to pass when our actions must speak louder than words! Your continuing support has helped us maintain an active and persistent presence along the coastal belts of mangrove nations. MAP started almost 23 years ago, and has since built up an active global network, while raising public awareness about the importance of mangroves. We have long been the mangroves’ advocate, and have worked tirelessly to conserve and restore these forest wetlands. Future generations may reap the bounty of our actions and thus thank you for your timely support. DONATE BEFORE 12-31 FOR 2014 TAX CREDIT MANGROVES: The Ecosystem Disappearing Faster Than Any Other on Earth The UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) are excited to announce the launch of the first Unit of a unique 10-Unit open access, self-paced online course all about mangrove ecosystems and their management. Unit 1 consists of 5 lessons and introduces students to mangroves and provides a brief description of their basic characteristics, evolution, distribution, importance and status. The following 9 units will be launched over the coming months and cover topics such as mangrove ecology, diversity of flora and fauna, climate change, ecosystem-based adaptation and risk reduction, restoration and management tools, economic valuation tools, and policies and laws. Unit 1 can be accessed at Conservation Training and is open access. It only requires registration with the Conservation Training platform. For more information, also to enroll please CLICK HERE Hanneke Van Lavieren Consultant Hogebiezendijk 31 3401 RS IJsselstein The Netherlands Email: hanvanlav@gmail.com Mobile: +1-(0)6-57802410 or +1-(0)6-57819621 BACK TO TOP Not yet a subscriber? Click here to subscribe. Please cut and paste these news alerts/ action alerts on to your own lists and contacts. Help us spread the word and further generate letters of concern, as this can make a big difference in helping to halt a wrongdoing or encourage correct action.
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Dear Friends of Mangroves The time has come to pass when our actions must speak louder than words! Your continuing support has helped us maintain an active and persistent presence along the coastal belts of mangrove nations. MAP started almost 23 years ago, and has since built up an active global network, while raising public awareness about the importance of mangroves. We have long been the mangroves’ advocate, and have worked tirelessly to conserve and restore these forest wetlands. Future generations may reap the bounty of our actions and thus thank you for your timely support. READ MORE Corals Hide From Climate Change Under Mangroves Please check out the latest two products which summarize some of our ongoing work around valuing mangroves. We hope these will be useful to others, in NGOs, governance, industry and the international policy arena. We think they could/should empower greater consideration of the value of mangroves into ongoing coastal planning and conservation efforts. Please forward or share if you like them! 1 - Mangroves for coastal defense: Guidelines for coastal managers & policy makers As the title suggests this is a document that summarizes the detailed reports that Anna McIvor led on the various roles of mangroves in reducing the impacts of various coastal hazards (those reports can also be downloaded here: wind swell and waves (click to download) , storm surge (click to download), soil surface elevations (click to download) ). (Hard copies are available) 2 – The Role of Mangroves in Fisheries Enhancement. This is a detailed synthesis of a review that we have conducted here. It is part of ongoing work to develop a more detailed model and map of mangrove fisheries value that we hope to share in due course. (The link here is to the Wetlands International site, but it will be loaded onto the TNC site – nature.org/oceanwealth very soon) Both of these have been produced through a highly productive collaboration with Wetlands International, and with support from the Waterloo Foundation and TNC’s Mapping Ocean Wealth project funded by the Lyda Hill Foundation. All best fishes! Dr Mark Spalding Senior Marine Scientist, Global Marine Team, The Nature Conservancy c/- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK T. +44 1223 334459 M. +44 7761 493256 Skype: mdspalding E. mspalding@tnc.org BACK TO TOP Not yet a subscriber? Click here to subscribe. Please cut and paste these news alerts/ action alerts on to your own lists and contacts. Help us spread the word and further generate letters of concern, as this can make a big difference in helping to halt a wrongdoing or encourage correct action.
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Dear Friends of Mangroves
With over two decades at work at the roots of the sea, you might wonder if we are any closer to saving the mangroves. Mangroves have continued their decline, but the current rate is now half of what it was when MAP was established. While more efforts are being made to restore and conserve mangroves than ever before, we still need to do more. This is where you can help! The time has come to pass when our actions must speak louder than words! Your continuing support has helped us maintain an active and persistent presence along the coastal belts of mangrove nations. MAP started almost 23 years ago, and has since built up an active global network, while raising public awareness about the importance of mangroves. We have long been the mangroves’ advocate, and have worked tirelessly to conserve and restore these forest wetlands. Future generations may reap the bounty of our actions and thus thank you for your timely support. A donation of $45 can buy a salinity meter to measure the salinity levels in a mangrove restoration site. $250 can buy an altimeter to measure topography and $1,000 can help restore an acre of mangrove wetlands. MAP held successful Community-based Ecological Mangrove Restoration (CBEMR) training workshops in Cuyamel, Honduras, led by volunteer Dominic Wodehouse and MAP Executive Director Alfredo Quarto. They are now planning another CBEMR workshop early next year in the Gulf of Fonseca region of Honduras, with a series of other CBEMR workshops planned for the general Central America region. 1999 Goldman Environmental Prize winner Jorge Varela is working as a regional coordinator for these workshops.
A donation of $500 will enable a local steward to attend these workshops and further their training in CBEMR. MAP’s Asia Team, led by Jim Enright and assisted by Jaruwan (Ning) Enright and Global Nature Fund Project Coordinator, Piyapat Nakornchai (Por), together with Field Project Manager, Niyom Thongmean (Nick) have begun several more Community-based Ecological Mangrove Restoration projects, as well as related alternative livelihoods projects in southern Thailand, promoting healthy ecosystems and reducing disaster risk. Further exciting workshops are being planned for both Burma and Bangladesh this coming year. Read more about the projects at www.mangroveactionproject.org/cbemr/blog/ MAP’s Education Director, Martin Keeley, introduced MAP’s Marvelous Mangrove Curriculum into 11 nations, including Bangladesh, China, Australia, Brazil and Belize, successfully training 2,500 new teachers and reaching 250,000 students, with plans for further MM Curriculum introductions in Kenya, Madagascar and Suriname.
Read more about the curriculum at www.mangroveactionproject.org/mangrove_curriculum/
A $100 donation can cover the cost of printing 5 copies of MAP’s Marvelous Mangroves Curriculum for use in primary schools. $500 can pay for the costs of bringing two teachers for training at a workshop to prepare them for use of the Curriculum.
The Question Your Shrimp (QYS) campaign under the project coordination of Vanessa Lopez signed up 6 more chefs and reached hundreds more Seattle-area residents and restaurant concerning the problems of imported farmed shrimp and consequent mangrove loss. MAP staff held 6 QYS related public speaking events in the Puget Sound area.
Find out about the QYS campaign at www.questionyourshrimp.com
MAP’s newsletter under the editorship of Sam Nugent reached its 350th edition, and our communication medias have been greatly improved via the good work of Leo Thom and Julie Christie, while MAP’s 14th edition of our Children’s Mangrove Art Calendar for 2015 was published via the artistic hand of Monica Gutierrez-Quarto.
$400 can cover two months costs of publishing MAP’s electronic biweekly newsletter that goes out to over 4,000 recipients in over 60 nations. $600 can cover 3-month’s rent for MAP’s Seattle office.
Most certainly, you have an important role to play, and we’re looking forward to building that momentum from your generosity last year helping us raise $8,000. We provide the vehicle to save the mangroves, and you provide the fuel to run that vehicle! During this season of giving, I hope you’ll take the opportunity to support MAP’s work to conserve and restore mangrove forests around the world. Your donation today will go straight into helping the decline of mangrove forests.
Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you!
Alfredo Quarto,
Executive Director
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