Marine Life & Conservation
Make Father’s Day Gift-Giving Easy, Adopt-A-Manatee®!
A naturally, notable gift this Father’s Day is a manatee adoption from Save the Manatee Club. The thoughtfulness and kindness behind giving a unique present to dad is certain to be a special moment on his well-deserved day.
Check out 34 manatees up for adoption at the Club’s website at savethemanatee.org/adoptees. Doc, Rocket, Howie, Gator, Flash, Floyd, Margarito, Nick, and Merlin are just some of the popular male manatees in the adoption program. New to the Club’s Blue Spring State Park manatee adoptees is Una, who was rescued as an orphan in 2003. She was released and gave birth to several calves over the years. Una was rescued again because of fishing line entanglement on both flippers. Once treated she was returned to the wild. All manatees in the Club’s adoption programs are real, living manatees with known histories, like Una.
It costs $25 to adopt a manatee for Father’s Day, and dad will receive a color photo, biography, and adoption certificate, along with a membership handbook, plus a year’s membership in Save the Manatee Club. He’ll receive the official printed newsletter, The Manatee Zone, four times a year, as well as the Club’s e-newsletter, Paddle Tales, throughout the year. Adopt at the $35 level and get a free exercise towel, another special surprise for dad. Shipping is free if mailed within the United States.
Young sisters Kasin and Karson from Georgia chose to adopt Gator for their dad last Father’s Day from Save the Manatee Club’s Blue Spring adoption program. Together with their grandmother, Patricia Stone Sanders, they had searched how to help the manatees. When they saw that “Gator” was available on Save the Manatee Club’s website, it was an easy choice because their father, mother, and grandparents grew up in Florida, and their dad is a University of Florida graduate. All are ardent Gator fans, however, the girls claim their dad is the biggest Gator in the house.
“Dad loved it!” declared Kasin and Karson when their dad, Kevin Obarski, had received his Father’s Day present. According to their grandmother, Kevin especially liked that the girls made the gift count by helping to “sustain these wonderful creatures for the future.”
Adopt-A-Manatee® for Father’s Day by visiting Save the Manatee Club’s website. Visit the Club’s online catalog for additional gift ideas for dad.
Follow the Club using Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest , and Instagram . Watch manatee videos on YouTube.
Save the Manatee Club is an international nonprofit 501(c) (3) manatee conservation organization, co-founded in 1981 by singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett and former U.S. Senator, Bob Graham, when he was governor of Florida. The Adopt-A-Manatee® program helps raise funds to support the Club’s various conservation efforts, which include education and public awareness projects and extensive conservation work to protect Florida’s official state marine mammal and its aquatic habitat.
The Shark Trust is excited to announce that, for two more days only, all donations, large or small, will be doubled in the Big Give Green Match Fund!
Donate to Basking in Nature: Sighting Giants
The Shark Trust is hoping to raise £10k which will be doubled to £20k. This will go towards Basking in Nature: Sighting Giants. And they need YOUR help to reach they’re goal.
The Shark Trust’s citizen science project is to monitor and assess basking sharks through sightings; encouraging data collection, community engagement, and promoting nature accessibility. This initiative aims to enhance health and wellbeing by fostering a deeper connection with British Sharks.
Campaign Aims
- Increase citizen science reporting of Basking Sharks and other shark sightings to help inform shark and ray conservation.
- Provide educational talks about the diverse range of sharks and rays in British waters and accessible identification guides!
- Create engaging and fun information panels on how to ID the amazing sharks and rays we have on our doorstep! These can be used on coastal paths around the Southwest. With activities and information on how you can make a difference for sharks and rays!
- Promote mental wellbeing through increasing time in nature and discovering the wonders beneath the waves!
Donate, and double your impact. Click Here
Marine Life & Conservation
Leading UK-based shark conservation charity, the Shark Trust, is delighted to announce tour operator Diverse Travel as a Corporate Patron
Corporate Patrons provide a valuable boost to the work of The Shark Trust. The Trust team works globally to safeguard the future of sharks, and their close cousins, the skates and rays, engaging with a global network of scientists, policymakers, conservation professionals, businesses and supporters to further shark conservation.
Specialist tour operator Diverse Travel has operated since 2014 and is committed to offering its guests high quality, sustainable scuba diving holidays worldwide. Working together with the Shark Trust will enable both organisations to widen engagement and encourage divers and snorkellers to actively get involved in shark conservation.
“Sharks are truly at the heart of every diver and at Diverse Travel, we absolutely share that passion. There is nothing like seeing a shark in the wild – it’s a moment that stays with you forever!” says Holly Bredin, Sales & Marketing Manager, Diverse Travel.
“We’re delighted to celebrate our 10th year of business by becoming a Corporate Patron of the Shark Trust. This is an exciting partnership for Diverse and our guests. We will be donating on behalf of every person who books a holiday with us to contribute towards their vital shark conservation initiatives around the world. We will also be working together with the Trust to inspire divers, snorkellers and other travellers to take an active role – at home and abroad – in citizen science projects and other activities.”
Paul Cox, CEO of The Shark Trust, said:
“It’s an exciting partnership and we’re thrilled to be working with Diverse Travel to enable more divers and travellers to get involved with sharks and shark conservation. Sharks face considerable conservation challenges but, through collaboration and collective action, we can secure a brighter future for sharks and their ocean home. This new partnership takes us one more valuable step towards that goal.”
For more information about the Shark Trust visit their website here.
For more about Diverse Travel click here.
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