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Cooperation for Conservation: How Communities that Depend on Coral Reefs are Responding to the Climate Crisis Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 14Sustainable Development Goal 17

Blog post title: Cooperation for Conservation: How Communities that Depend on Coral Reefs are Responding to the Climate Crisis

By Kelly Dunning. Coral reefs are the most colorful, lively, beautiful locations of life below the water, and yet they are the most threatened. Human burning of fossil fuel for heat, energy, and industry has led to a warming ocean, and with it, corals that turn a bright white color…
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October 5, 2021
Spaceship Earth & the “Ultimate Life Support System” Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 14

Blog post title: Spaceship Earth & the “Ultimate Life Support System”

“I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.” ~ Buckminster Fuller Imagine yourself on the International Space Station (ISS).  You’re up there captivated by views of our beautiful planet, doing experiments, completing assigned tasks, living, and floating weightless.  Hurtling around the world at over 17,000 miles per hour, there is…
Mike Kensler
October 4, 2021
Conflict in the World’s Most Important Wilderness Area: The Cameroon Anglophone Crisis & the Need for Community Participation in Conservation of the Congo Guest Blog PostsSustainable Development Goal 14Sustainable Development Goal 15Sustainable Development Goal 16Sustainable Development Goal 5

Blog post title: Conflict in the World’s Most Important Wilderness Area: The Cameroon Anglophone Crisis & the Need for Community Participation in Conservation of the Congo

By Dr. Kelly Dunning, Assistant Professor of Conservation Governance, College of Forestry and Wildlife. The Congo Basin Rainforest is the world’s second-largest rainforest at 500 million acres, it is larger than the U.S. state of Alaska. It has over 10,000 species of plants, and many charismatic species like my personal…
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September 29, 2020
Director’s Corner: Hunger – There is No Excuse Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 14Sustainable Development Goal 15Sustainable Development Goal 2

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: Hunger – There is No Excuse

The international Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created by the nations of the world under the auspices of the United Nations. Tapping experts across the globe on a range of disciplines, seventeen goals were established with a deadline of 2030 for achieving each goal. The seventeen goal topics were identified…
Mike Kensler
September 10, 2020
Director’s Corner: The Oceans Cradle All Life on Earth & Require Immediate Protection & Restoration Archived UpdatesDirector's CornerSustainable Development Goal 14Sustainable Development Goal 6

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: The Oceans Cradle All Life on Earth & Require Immediate Protection & Restoration

“It ought to be hard for a species that occupies roughly 10% of the earth’s land to mess up 70% of the planet’s entire surface. Yet humans are well on the way to wrecking the oceans.” Jennifer Duggan, Time, February 4, 2019 Life on Earth began in primitive seas about…
Mike Kensler
April 12, 2019