“You can’t find fish here anymore”
While filming in Senegal for An Ocean Mystery: The Missing Catch we visited the coastal town of Joal. It is about 2 hours drive south of Dakar, 3 if you get stuck behind a slow truck. When we arrived we …
Atlantic Ocean
Inside the Mangrove Forest
Inside the Mangrove Forest In this short film you’ll learn what mangroves are and the importance of the complex ecosystem their forests create. Welcome to the mangrove forest, where the daily rhythm of the tides sets the pace. These coastal wetlands create …
Planting the [mangrove] Seed
This article written by Amy Heemsoth (KSLOF Education Director) about the KSLOF Mangrove Program in Jamaica and The Bahamas was recently featured in Seven Seas Magazine. Planting the [Mangrove] Seed Seven Seas Magazine August 1, 2016 Amy Heemsoth As I quietly walk …
Planting the Seed
Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog As I quietly walk through the mangrove forest, all around me I observe an ecosystem teaming with life. I hear the shuffling of fiddler crabs as they scurry back to their holes in the …
J.A.M.I.N. Mangrove Planting
We’re back in Jamaica again for some Jamaican mangrove planting… taking students and teachers to restore a local mangrove forest. It’s the final phase in a new mangrove education and restoration program called Jamaican Awareness of Mangroves in Nature. Students from Holland High …
Open Day
Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog A guest blog by Marsden Palmer of Grade 10 Science at William Knibb Memorial High School, Jamaica and participant in the Jamaican Awareness of Mangroves in Nature (J.A.M.I.N.) program. For the past three …
LSU Natural Resource Alumni Assist Project JAMIN
LSU School of Renewable Natural Resources Alumni assists with Project JAMIN (Mangrove Restoration Project) during Reunion in Jamaica A guest blog written by the ‘LSU Wildlife Crew’ who accompanied the KSLOF Education Director to Jamaica for this last phase of …
J.A.M.I.N. Teacher Spotlight
Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog I have arrived at the University of the West Indies Discovery Bay Marine Lab in Jamaica and I’m anxious to implement the final phase of the J.A.M.I.N. program. This is the second year of …
BAM! BAM!
Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Over the past eight months, in partnership with Friends of the Environment, we have successfully piloted the B.A.M. program in two high schools on Abaco Island, Bahamas – Abaco Central High School and Forest …
World Changers… One Student at a Time
Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog A Bahamas Mangrove Project Teacher Reflection By Michelle Bailey, Science Teacher Abaco Central High School A few years ago a student’s parent told me that her daughter refused to let her use pesticides …