The Year in Pictures 2016

Check out Living Oceans Foundation Year in Pictures 2016 of our most memorable moments and events of the year: the Nekton launch, filming in Dakar, the UNESCO Marine Site Manager’s Conference, B.A.M. / J.A.M.I.N. Year-2 Program Launch, and our annual …

BAM Fall 2016

Join along with Living Oceans Foundation Education Director, Amy Heemsoth, as she recounts in these photos her trip back to the Bahamas to kick-off the 2016-2017 Bahamas Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) program with some fantastic new additions: a NOAA Knauss …

Monitoring and Managing Mangroves

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Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Today, it’s absolutely beautiful weather in Abaco, Bahamas. It’s sunny outside and there is a gentle breeze wrestling the branches of the mangrove trees. Along the waterline of the mangroves, groups of students from Forest Heights Academy …

Bahamas Mangrove Program Year 2 Pilot

In this second year of our Bahamian Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) program, we will work with grade 11 Biology students who participated in the first year program to monitor and manage mangroves, again through project-based learning. Students will apply the …

B.A.M.: My Introduction to the Bahamas

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Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Symone Johnson is a NOAA Knauss Fellow who is volunteering with KSLOF for the first phase of our mangrove education and restoration programs in the Caribbean in order to learn about managing, implementing, and …

New Additions

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Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Our Mangrove Education and Restoration Programs are back in session! It’s September and although I’m no longer a formal educator, I still prepare for the beginning of the new school year. I finish writing …

Inside the Mangrove Forest

Inside the Mangrove Forest In this short film you’ll learn what mangroves are and the importance of the complex ecosystem their forests create. Welcome to the mangrove forest, where the daily rhythm of the tides sets the pace. These coastal wetlands create …

Planting the [mangrove] Seed

This article written by Amy Heemsoth (KSLOF Education Director) about the KSLOF Mangrove Program in Jamaica and The Bahamas was recently featured in Seven Seas Magazine. Planting the [Mangrove] Seed Seven Seas Magazine August 1, 2016 Amy Heemsoth As I quietly walk …

BAM! BAM!

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Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Over the past eight months, in partnership with Friends of the Environment, we have successfully piloted the B.A.M. program in two high schools on Abaco Island, Bahamas – Abaco Central High School and Forest …

World Changers… One Student at a Time

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Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog A Bahamas Mangrove Project Teacher Reflection By Michelle Bailey, Science Teacher Abaco Central High School   A few years ago a student’s parent told me that her daughter refused to let her use pesticides …