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Enjoying Marine Areas: Public Interaction June 12, 2003

Alex F. Brylske, Ph.D. Marine Conservation & Education Specialist Project AWARE Foundation. Enjoying Marine Areas: Public Interaction June 12, 2003. Protect the Living Reef. Project AWARE’s Mission. Conserving underwater environments through education, advocacy and action.

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Enjoying Marine Areas: Public Interaction June 12, 2003

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  1. Alex F. Brylske, Ph.D. Marine Conservation & Education Specialist Project AWARE Foundation Enjoying Marine Areas: Public InteractionJune 12, 2003

  2. Protect the Living Reef

  3. Project AWARE’s Mission • Conserving underwater environments through education, advocacy and action.

  4. Current Programs • Protect the Sharks • Respect Our Wrecks • Protect the Living Reef • Go Eco: Explore, Conserve, Observe • Direct the underwater component of The Ocean Conservancy’s International Clean-Up Day

  5. Our World, Our Water

  6. Professional Development • “Marine Resource Management for Dive Professionals” • 12-hour seminar for dive tour operators, divemasters and resource managers. • Although highly acclaimed, this has reached only about 400 attendees in over five years.

  7. Challenge #1 • How do you engender stewardship for resources that are either unseen, or not perceived as vital, by most people?

  8. Challenge #2 • How do you provide the perspective needed for tourists to appreciate the level and rate of degradation of marine resources? 1960 1989

  9. Challenge #3 • Combating the “what’s in it for me?” mentality.

  10. Recommendation #1 • Promote and expand partnerships between resource managers, the marine science/educational community and the diving industry.

  11. Recommendation #2 • Make certain that at least some resources are protected from further harm by establishing more fully protected (no-take) MPAs.

  12. Recommendation #3 • Improve dissemination of existing educational initiatives, and create incentives for responsible practice.

  13. In the End... we protect only what we love,love only what we understand,and understand only what we are taught.

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