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Nemo and the Zombie Anemone

Comparing a bleached anemone to the undead may be a bit of a stretch, but it is fair to say a bleached anemone is hovering somewhere between life and death and depending on what happens next, it can go either way. We

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Monitoring and managing mangroves

Monitoring and Managing Mangroves

Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Today, it’s absolutely beautiful weather in Abaco, Bahamas. It’s sunny outside and there is a gentle breeze wrestling the branches of the mangrove trees. Along the waterline of the mangroves, groups of students from Forest Heights Academy

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B.A.M.: My Introduction to the Bahamas

B.A.M.: My Introduction to the Bahamas

Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Symone Johnson is a NOAA Knauss Fellow who is volunteering with KSLOF for the first phase of our mangrove education and restoration programs in the Caribbean in order to learn about managing, implementing, and

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Mangrove Program New Additions

New Additions

Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Our Mangrove Education and Restoration Programs are back in session! It’s September and although I’m no longer a formal educator, I still prepare for the beginning of the new school year. I finish writing

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Joal fishing industry

“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

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The aftermath of mangrove restoration - orange, pink, and yellow tagged propagules!

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

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Group photo of students and teachers who participated in Open Day. Marsden is in the top row, second person to the right.

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

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LSU Natural Resource Alumni Assist Project JAMIN

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

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