By Claudio Gonzalez | Technical Coordinator
Dear friends,
The holidays are here, and all of us at MAR Fund are taking a moment to reflect and give thanks for those who support us. We have received a number of donations through GlobalGiving this year, and we’re very grateful to all of you! We’d like to take this opportunity to thank donors who prefer to remain anonymous, since we are unable to send them individual thank you notes.
We made a lot of progress this year, but there is still work to be done. Among the multiple threats to the Mesoamerican Reef region, the lionfish invasion continues to loom large. And so we also look forward to the coming year, and the many activities ahead of us.
Lionfish wipes out large numbers of marine species, making it more difficult for these creatures to grow to reproductive age and continue furthering the species. The MAR Fund is supporting solutions to this issue in part through our GlobalGiving project: Lionfish Control.
Donating to the MAR Fund’s project on Global Giving is a gift to MAR region fish species.
We encourage you to make a contribution this holiday season that will directly work to control lionfish in the region. If you’re looking for a unique gift, GlobalGiving has the solution: tribute cards. You can give in someone’s name and GlobalGiving will send them a card announcing the gift. Right now, GlobalGiving is running a Tribute Card Challenge in which they will give $500 bonuses to the 15 projects with the most tribute donations. Help our project break into the top 15 and finish your holiday shopping at the same time!
Give in honor of someone who loves to scuba dive, or someone who is enamored of the crystalline waters of the MAR region. Or because you feel compassion for fish and the reef ecosystem. Or because you think lionfish is delicious and should appear on more menus. Or because you want to preserve the treasure that is the Mesoamerican Reef for future generations. Whatever your reason to give, you can be confident that your donation will have a ripple effect.
Again, thank you for your support in 2011, and please consider a year-end gift to help us kick off our work in 2012!
Enjoy your holidays. Wishing you all the best for this season and a positive start to 2012,
The MAR Fund team: María José, Claudio, Patty, Claudia, and Edgar
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