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Project AWARE welcomes new Associate Director Policy and Campaigns to its team
Project AWARE has welcomed Ian Campbell as its new Associate Director, Policy and Campaigns.
Ian Campbell draws from 20 years’ experience in marine conservation, working in the public, private and NGO sectors. His extensive international work experience and background as marine surveyor, commercial diver, fisheries officer, and author and consultant on policy matters including the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy, have led Ian to focus, throughout his professional career, on reducing impacts of commercial fisheries, habitat protection and sustainable shark and ray tourism.
Ian comes to Project AWARE from World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) where he was leading and managing complex shark and ray conservation initiatives and projects including heading up the Pacific Shark Heritage Programme and overseeing engagements with the international fisheries bodies, global conservation agreements and development of national conservation policies. In 2014, Ian was the technical specialist for the Fiji government delegation to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), successfully adding manta and mobula rays to the Convention. This success was repeated in 2016 when mobula rays were adopted under the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES).
“Collaborating with Project AWARE is not new to Ian Campbell. In 2017, he served as WWF’s lead for the development of the world’s first-ever guidelines for shark and ray tourism operators – Responsible Shark and Ray Tourism: A Guide to Best Practice – in partnership with Project AWARE and Manta Trust.” says Danna Moore, Project AWARE Global Operations Director. “We’re thrilled to have new opportunities to work together and build on his experience and passion for marine protection to carry forward the long-term strategic vision of Project AWARE”.
“Growing up in a small fishing village in South Wales, my love of the ocean developed from an early age. I remember watching early ocean documentaries and films like Jaws which led me to study Marine Biology at university. I am very lucky to have had a career which has covered a wide range of marine issues, from fisheries, habitat protection and of course, sharks and ray issues.” says Ian Campbell. “After 20 years of working across the spectrum of marine conservation roles, I’m excited to join the Project AWARE team and its global community of ocean enthusiasts to drive the organisation’s overall policy work and conservation outcomes”.
Ian joins the Project AWARE global team working to empower a movement of ocean adventurers to take action for a return to a clean, healthy ocean. As Associate Director of Policy and Campaigns, Ian leads Project AWARE’s development and implementation of key strategic conservation projects and initiatives with a view to influencing policy developments at the local, national and global levels.
For more information about Project AWARE visit their website by clicking here.
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Dive Worldwide Announces Bite-Back as its Charity of the Year
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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