Seacology

Paul Alan Cox

Seacology is an international environmental organization dedicated to the protection of the islands and their special island cultures.

The organization assumes that islands have a particularly rich flora and fauna, which are simultaneously at particular risk, including through introduction of alien plant and animal species and by rising sea levels due to global warming.

Seacology was founded in the USA by Ken Murdock and the ethnobotanist Paul Alan Cox 1993. The main office is located in Berkeley ( California). Since 2007 there is a German branch " Seacology Germany eV " with an office in Berlin. Another national organization, there are in Japan.

Seacology works with local representatives who look after the running projects. The board consists of island - experts such as Cox and Murdock and economic managers like Michael Burbank, founder of the Burbank Group, and Masayuki Kishimoto of Nu Skin International. Accompany the work of a " Scientific Advisory Board" made ​​up of experts in the field of island biodiversity, including Thomas Elmqvist of the University of Uppsala, Robert Jansen, a professor of Integrated Biology at the University of Texas and John McCosker, a professor of marine biology at the California Academy of Sciences.

Seacology works directly with islanders and sought so-called win-win solutions. The environment should be protected and the residents should receive reasonable value in return, such as by building a school, a kindergarten or a solar system.

Paul Cox and the Mayor of Falealupo (Samoa) Fuino Senio received in 1997 for her commitment to the protection of the forest of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize Falealupo.

Projects

Seacology implemented various projects on islands in various areas of the world, such as the Galapagos Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Indonesia since 1993.

• On the Indonesian island of Raja Ampat island belonging Waigeo nine villages have declared a nearly 50,000 -hectare marine area a protected zone. For this, the villages get solar panels to generate electricity, public sanitation, and paved paths for drinking place and at the school.
• The village Manamoc on Palawan (Philippines) receives a solar system for power supply of school and hospital and provides for a 107 -hectare marine area under protection.
• A CO2 compensation fund to offset the carbon dioxide emissions from cars and flights, as the traffic, especially the growing air traffic, contributing to the global greenhouse effect.