Have you, or someone close to you, ever asked the question, "What can I do, with my own hands, to help ensure a sustainable world for future generations?"
Integra Mare - is an altruistic, hands-on Citizen Science movement anyone who cares about healthy oceans and healthy local food production can take part in.
Integra Mare (IM)
Integra Mare offers an integrated land and sea-based outreach program for adventurous people wishing to make a positive difference in the world utilizing any combination of their time, talent, and treasure applied to 3-Pillars of urgently needed contributions to restore and revitalize planet earth's biosphere, starting with the MesoAmerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), second longest barrier coral reef system in the world. In total, these IM 'voluntourism' missions will encompass over 1200 return miles, by sea, and land, from Caribbean Mexico to Honduras, and continuing south, following a distributed chain of patch and fringe coral reefs, to the turnaround point in Caribbean Panama. Included in the restoration-revitalization missions will be stops at each of Integra Mare's seven national operational bases on land, in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
On-board sailing, motor-sailing, and diving opportunities, including discounted PADI certifications and breath-hold freedive training, as well as local land-based food production and seafood harvesting projects are available for hands-on citizen science volunteers in any one, or all, of the 3-Pillars of hands-on citizen-science activities:
CoralCareCorps - installing artificial coral reefs, utilizing proven, breakthrough technology; producing immediate results by ensuring fully functional and viable coral reef, typically within 2 years of installation.
PermaCultureCorps - transferring proven permaculture technologies and techniques, through interactive design of sustainable agri- and aqua- culture projects for ownership and implementation by peoples of affected coastal communities, propagating from established national land operational bases.
ILEADCorps - Invasive Lionfish Eco-Action Discovery Corps, activating citizen science to control and manage the most extensive marine invasive species plague in human history: the Indo-Pacific Lionfish, whose population explosion in the Caribbean, along the entire length of the MBRS, threatens the native marine biomass, biodiversity and existance of the coral itself. Basic scientific data on invasive-lionfish location and population densities of both invasive-lionfish and the over 70 species of marine fish and crustaceans they prey upon, currently unavailable to conventional science due to funding constraints, will be gathered by IM citizen science volunteers at frequent intervals, along the entire length of the MBRS. This valuable data will then be given to conventional science and marine resource management agencies in order to better inform critical coral reef conservation and fisheries management protocols and decision-making processes, and as a catalyst for further development of national lionfish control and management programs in each of the seven countries.
To learn more about Integra Mare, The 3-Pillars, and to inquire about earning your stripes as a 'Vigilante del Mar' on one of IM's upcoming missions, email: [email protected] (IM website in development)
INTEGRA MARE - for the greater good, now - and for all time.
Why dupe post? Just put #different-topic at the bottom of one.
tks, tuck-fheman.I have to add that the Post page design referencing multiple tags as an option in the tag(s) field is misleading - how does one report that to site admin to be changed to the tag-hash you have recommended? that is what should be referenced prominently on the standard Post page layout, wouldn't you agree?
Can you recommend a comprehensive post on steemit which lays everything out for noobs? That's another point that should be brought to site design/admin attention, although, I guess the Steemit investors have taken the 'we put it up.. and we'll leave it to the users to build it out' tack?
Since my comment was posted, you can now specify multiple topics in the first topic field. But you can still use the old method of using tags within your post.
My main point was, just post it once, instead of spamming 10 topics with the same duplicate content. So if you want it to show up in multiple topics either hashtag the other topics : #charity #ocean-whatever etc or put it in the top topic bar. :)
GOT IT. Tks.
Another question.. How can I change my login password?
Click the avatar in upper righthand corner, then PERMISSIONS, then the pencil icon.