Seacology
| Seacology | |
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| legal form | Nonprofit Organization ( 501 (c) organization ) |
| founding | 1991 |
| founder | Ken Murdock, Paul Alan Cox |
| Seat | Berkeley, CA United States
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| motto | Saving the world ... one island at a time. |
| purpose | Environmental protection on islands |
| Action space | global |
| Chair | Michael Burbank, President |
| sales | $ 3,089,494 (2017) |
| Website | www.seacology.org |
| Seacology Germany | |
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 2007 |
| Seat |
Babelsberg Germany
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| motto | We save islands |
| main emphasis | Environmental protection on islands |
| Chair | Peter Pistor |
| Website | seacology.de |
Seacology is an international environmental protection organization that is dedicated to the protection of islands and their special island cultures .
The organization assumes that islands have a particularly rich flora and fauna , e.g. T. are particularly threatened, u. a. through the introduction of alien plant and animal species and through the rise in sea levels as a result of global warming .
Seacology (USA) was founded in 1993 by Ken Murdock and the ethnobotanist Paul Alan Cox . Its headquarters and office are in Berkeley, California . Since 2007 there has been a German branch "Seacology Germany eV" based in Berlin. There is another national organization in Japan .
The board includes Cox and Murdock, as well as Michael Burbank, founder of the Burbank Group , and Masayuki Kishimoto, manager of Nu Skin International . The work is accompanied by a “Scientific Advisory Board” made up of experts in the field of island biodiversity , including Thomas Elmqvist from Uppsala University , Robert K. Jansen , Professor of Integrated Biology at the University of Texas and John McCosker, Professor of Marine Biology at the California Academy of Sciences .
The association works z. Sometimes they work directly with islanders and strive for so-called win-win solutions. The environment should be protected and the residents should receive an appropriate value in return, e.g. B. by building a school, a kindergarten or a solar system .
Paul Cox and the Mayor of Falealupo ( Samoa ) Fuino Senio received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1997 for their commitment to protecting the Falealupo forest .
Projects
The association has been realizing various projects on islands since 1993, e.g. B. in the Galapagos Islands , Papua New Guinea , Fiji and Indonesia .
- On the island of Waigeo, which belongs to the Indonesian archipelago Raja Ampat , nine villages have declared an almost 50,000 hectare marine area to be a protected zone. In return, the villages receive a solar system to generate electricity, public sanitary facilities and paved paths to the drinking water point and to the school.
- The village of Manamoc on Palawan ( Philippines ) is receiving a solar system to power the school and hospital and is placing a 107 hectare marine area under protection.
- A CO 2 offsetting fund is intended to offset the carbon dioxide emissions from cars and flights, as traffic, especially growing air traffic, contributes to the global greenhouse effect .
literature
- Paul Alan Cox: Nafanua. Saving the Samoan Rainforest. Dr. Gupta Verlag, Ratingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-9803593-8-2