After a successful first year of the Bahamas Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) Program, the Foundation expands the mangrove education and restoration program to offer a second year program. The BAM Year-2 program focuses on monitoring and managing mangroves through project-based learning, building upon the knowledge they learned in the previous year to learn how to manage this important ecosystem.
2025-2026 B.A.M. Student Voices
Throughout the Bahamas Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) and Jamaica Awareness of Mangroves in Nature (J.A.M.I.N.) programs, we evaluate each phase of the mangrove education and restoration process to better understand how students are learning, growing, and connecting with their coastal environments.
Before the programs begin, students share what they already know about mangroves and how they feel about them. As the program progresses, we continue to gather feedback to see how their knowledge evolves from identifying mangrove species and understanding food webs to recognizing the role mangroves play in coastal protection and climate change mitigation.
But the surveys go beyond science content.
We also ask students…
