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StoryMaps offers a new communication tool for Marine Conservation

A Rocha USA / March 20, 2023

By: Laura Vessey A Rocha USA’s Marine Conservation interns have been busy this year with SCUBA certifications, monitoring horseshoe crabs, biodiversity studies, plastics research, presenting research papers, conservation storytelling and much more. Part of their internship includes communicating …

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Love The Fast

A Rocha USA / February 21, 2023

By: Autumn Ayers "I admit that each year as Lent approaches, I am pricked by a feeling of dread. Traditionally, the Lenten fast involves abstaining from certain foods (meat and meat products) and generally eating less in order to make us mindful of our dependence on God. Especially in the …

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Celebrating 40 Years of Creation Care: A Rocha’s Journey from Cruzinha to a Global Conservation Movement

A Rocha USA / January 17, 2023

By: Autumn Ayers This year, we are celebrating A Rocha’s 40th birthday! In 1983, Miranda and Peter Harris and their four children moved to southern Portugal to establish Cruzinha: the very first A Rocha field center near the Alvor marshes. The region was on a major migratory route for …

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Creating Waters of Hope for International Coastal Cleanup

A Rocha USA / October 5, 2022

by Autumn Ayers Led by The Ocean Conservancy, the International Coastal Cleanup, held on September 17 each year, inspires over 200,000 people to restore marine ecosystems by tackling plastic pollution. From oceans, lakes, and streams to roadsides, parks, and neighborhoods, the A Rocha worldwide …

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Why ‘Seaspiracy’ Won’t Save the Ocean and What Might

A Rocha USA / June 2, 2021

By Robert Sluka There has been a huge amount of coverage around the recent Netflix documentary ‘Seaspiracy’, released at the end of March. It quickly broke into the Netflix ‘Top 10’ most watched list in multiple countries. It stoked controversy. On the one hand, it has generated conversation and …

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Small Things That Make a Big Difference

A Rocha USA / November 16, 2020

by Dr. Robert Sluka, Lead Scientist A Rocha USA's Marine Conservation Program & Florida Project Director   Nurdles – a fun word to say. These are plastic pellets and cleaning them up, though, is no fun. Imagine opening a bag of popcorn in your kitchen and it falls on the ground, …

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A Rocha USA Anti-Racism Statement

A Rocha USA / June 14, 2020

A Rocha USA is deeply committed to responding to suffering in the natural world, recognizing our interconnectedness to Creation. We work toward restoring diminished or broken relationships with Creation that arise from our inaction, injustice, and even violence toward the world around us. In the …

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Interns, Integrity, and Wholeness

A Rocha USA / October 18, 2016

This post originally appeared in A Rocha International's Planetwise blog. By Christie Goode In late August, within twenty-four hours of each other, I was present at two very special events with our summer interns. The first was an evening presentation by our science staff and interns on the …

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You Are There: Conservation and the Local Church

A Rocha USA / October 4, 2016

“The local church is the best way to restore people and their places.” So begins You Are There: Restoring Churches, People and Places, the recent release by pastor and A Rocha board member, Robert Campbell. In it, Campbell examines local conservation work from the vantage of one particular place …

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Conservation and Hope at the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering

A Rocha USA / August 31, 2016

By Ben Lowe This post originally appeared on A Rocha International's Planetwise blog. This August, over 1,000 young Christian delegates from more than 140 countries convened outside Jakarta, Indonesia, for the 2016 Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering (YLG). My colleague Rachel Lamb and I were …

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