Project Report
| Oct 8, 2021
Working to prevent overfishing
By Shayle Havemann | Project leader
Introduction
The fish population in the pacific is in a critical condition, population numbers as well as the diversity of species has suffered intensely over the past 5 years. In addition to marine life suffering, so are habitats and this illegal, over-exerted trade is contributing heavily to environmental degradation. Our project is focused on providing the training, resources and equipment for local community members to continue monitoring and preserving the habitats and reducing the illegal trade.
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Working with the local authorities and communities this project engages the local communities around Australia, neighbouring islands and countries to identify critically low areas of the fish population in the ocean and train local people to assist with data collection. We need $450 per local community member to get them PADI training so that they are able to run their own project. We have managed to raise $1025 so far.
Thank you for your support
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Jun 8, 2021
Save our fish and protect our oceans!
By Shayle Havemann | Project leader
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Introduction
The fish population in Fiji is in a critical condition, population numbers as well as the diversity of species has suffered intensely over the past 5 years. The reefs are the main source of protein for the communities that live on the island & therefor are under a great deal of fishing pressure and prone to habitat destruction. To ensure that there are fishing stocks for future generations, the local community understand that they must protect certain areas of the reef
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This project engages the local communities around the Fijian Islands and neighbouring countries to identify areas with a critically low fish population in the ocean and train local people to assist with data collection. Alongside this training and development program to up-skill the local community, we will also be running an outreach program with local partners to build awareness, understanding and help re-train local fisherman. $25 will purchase snorkeling gear for one local researcher.
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Feb 3, 2021
A New Year, A New Focus
By Tyrone Bennett | CEO / President
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Where are all the fish?
Dear Supporters,
Thank you for your continued support to our Marine Project. Working with our partners over the past few months we identified the alarming issues that illegal and overfishing is having on our ocean and after several discussions we felt that our focus needed to be amended to deal with the issue.
Up until now this project has worked with local communities to champion marine conservation and research and we have broken down the barriers to get locals into the water and training up in the conservation world and the results have been very successful due to the donations and support of you and the rest of the action change family.
As we begin 2021 we now are looking to fundraise vital funds so we can work with community groups and key influencers to run outreach programs and training programs to educate communities across Fiji and other Islands about the alarming issue of how fish stock is at a seriously low level.
We are very excited and ready to launch our project but the focus from today for the next 3 months will be actively fundraising so we can put our strategy in place.
Thank you,
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