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Sri Lankan mangroves respond to conservation plan

Edit Topix 23 Aug 2016
With US$ 3.4 million from the Califronia-based Seacology and manpower and other support from the Sri Lankan government, some 283 community organisations have been engaged in the work of conserving and replanting mangrove forests. The national conservation body, Small Fisheries Foundation, is the local implementing partner ... ....

World’s first ever Mangrove Museum opened by President Maithripala Sirisena (Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Aug 2016
(Source. Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka). Hon. Minister Mahinda Amaraweera stated that H.E the President has instructed to execute development projects without causing harmful effects to the natural environment ... The museum was funded by USA and designed under the cooperation of Mahaweli Development Authority, Seacology and SmallFishers Federation of Sri Lanka ... Hon....

Sri Lanka success whets international appetite for mangrove conservation

Edit The Times of India 03 Aug 2016
Duane Silverstein, executive director at California-based Seacology, a non-profit that protects island habitats, said he was planning to visit a candidate island state in the Caribbean in the next month ... According to Seacology, which partners with the government on the mangrove programme, around half the island nation's identified mangrove forests have now been surveyed and marked out with posts, up from zero when the project began....

President opens Mangrove Museum (The President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Jul 2016
In 2015, the Ministry of Mahaweli Development & Environment and Seacology institute in the U.S ... The Seacology institute of the U.S. has provided the financial assistance and feedback for the Seacology- Sudeesa Mangrove Museum ... The Board of the Seacology institute also posed for a group photography with the President....
photo: WN / RTayco
A small mangrove is formed just off the shore, filled with budding plants and trees.

Sri Lanka to protect climate-friendly mangroves ecosystem

Edit Belfast Telegraph 26 Jul 2016
Seacology, a US-based non-governmental organisation, last year launched a 3.4 million dollar (£2.6 million), five-year mangrove conservation and replanting program with the Sri Lankan government ... The Small Fishers' Federation, Seacology's Sri Lankan partner, is running a nursery near Pambala Lagoon, some 65 kilometres (40 miles) north of the capital, Colombo, to produce 500,000 seedlings for replanting....

Sri Lanka to conserve climate-friendly mangroves ecosystem

Edit The Associated Press 26 Jul 2016
Seacology, a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization, last year launched a $3.4 million, five-year mangrove conservation and replanting program with the Sri Lankan government ... The Small Fishers' Federation, Seacology's Sri Lankan partner, is running a nursery near Pambala Lagoon, some 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of the capital, Colombo, to produce 500,000 seedlings for replanting....

Sri Lanka prime minister: Mangroves curb climate threat

Edit BBC News 26 Jul 2016
In partnership with island conservation organisation Seacology and local NGO Sudeesa, the Sri Lankan government has identified all of the nation's 15,000 hectares of mangrove forests, and has surveyed almost half of them ... Seacology executive director Duane Silverstein explained that although the project required US $3.4 million of funding, the sum ......

Leading the fight against climate change: California nonprofit, Seacology, marks big successes in Sri Lanka ...

Edit PR Newswire 25 Jul 2016
PAMBALA, Sri Lanka, July 25, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- July 26, 2016, World Mangrove Day. A year into a groundbreaking program to protect all mangrove forests in Sri Lanka by enlisting the help of coastal communities, the news is good. The forests are being protected, and some of ... ....

Mary Thomas lectures preserve Secwepemc culture (Government of British Columbia)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Feb 2016
(Source. Government of British Columbia). SALMON ARM - Louis Thomas remembers his mother as a tireless advocate of First Nations culture, language and history ... 'Sharing. That's what our people are all about ... She was the first First Nations person to receive the Indigenous Conservationist of the Year award from the Seacology Foundation and received honorary degrees from the University of Victoria and the University of North Carolina....

Mary Thomas lectures preserve Secwepemc culture (Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation of British ...

Edit Public Technologies 15 Feb 2016
(Source. Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation of British Columbia). Louis Thomas remembers his mother as a tireless advocate of First Nations culture, language and history ... 'Sharing ... She was the first First Nations person to receive the Indigenous Conservationist of the Year award from the Seacology Foundation and received honorary degrees from the University of Victoria and the University of North Carolina ... 22, 2016....

Seacology prize winner donates 2 lakh to schoolto local school

Edit The Times of India 26 Dec 2015
The woman from a fishing hamlet in Ramanathapuram, who won the coveted Seacology Prize from Berkeley in California, has donated one third of her prize money (2 lakh) to a local school specifying that the amount should be used to construct more classrooms and develop the playground....

Honoured seaweed collector given rousing reception

Edit The Hindu 15 Oct 2015
Lakshmi (46), the seaweed collector who won the prestigious Seacology Prize from the US-based Seacology, a non-profit environment organisation, was given a rousing reception on her return to Pamban on Wednesday ... The Seacology Board, after receiving nominations from across the world, had voted to award the 2015 Seacology Prize to Ms....

Seaweed collector wins environment award

Edit The Hindu 04 Sep 2015
M Lakshmi (46) was hardly seven years old when she took her maiden boat ride to the islands in the Gulf of Mannar to collect seaweed and has come a long way to win the prestigious Seacology Prize and travel all the way to Berkeley in California to receive the award next month ... The Seacology Board, after receiving nominations from across the world, voted to award the 2015 Seacology Prize to Lakshmi in June....
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