>Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:45:53 -0700
>To: Mark Dubois/Earth Day 2000
>From: Monitoring Group (by way of Dive In To Earth Day)
>Subject: Report Dive In to Earth Day - Reef Care Curacao
>Status: O
>
>
>
>Dive In To Earth Day wrote:
>
> >
> > Your Name:
>Paul Hoetjes
> >
> > Name of your company/organization:
>Reef Care Curacao
> >
> > Name and date of event:
>Curacao Reef Check
>
>Coral Reef Monitoring survey
>
>Number of participants/attendees: 22
> >
> > Was your event successful? If so, how was it successful?:
>
>Yes, four locations along the Curacao coast were surveyed to gather Reef
>Check
>data on the reef. On April 22 due to the added promotion of Earth Day,
>10 new
>volunteers joined the Reef Care monitoring program. Many people on the
>beach on
>Earth Day were confronted with the Reef Care stand and learned about
>coral
>reefs of the island and the danger they are in.
>
> > Would you organize a Dive In To Earth Day event again next year?:
>
>Probably
>
> > Do you have any suggestions on how Dive In To Earth Day coordinators
> > support event organizers?:
> >
> > What tools or resources would help make an event like this more successful
> > in the future?
> >
> > Comments / Quotes (please include any comments you would like about the
> > general success of your event, any quotes made by your participants, etc.):
>
>It has been said before, and this Dive In to Earth Day again emphasizes
>and demonstrates this, that divers are not the reef's problem, they are
>part of the solution. All that is needed is to make them aware.
>
> > Please attach or send digital pictures to divein@coral.org
>
>Here they are:
>Photo 1: Preparing for the day, setting up an information stand of Reef
>Care
>Curacao.
>Photo 2: Briefing the participating vounteers about why Reef Care
>monitoris the
>reef, and what they can do to help.
>Photo 3: volunteers busy with the reef survey,noting down bottom cover
>along a
>transect line.
>Photo 4: What's all the ruckus?
>
>Regards, and great going people.
>
>Paul Hoetjes
>Reef Care Curacao
>Monitoring program coordinator
>
R.E.I.(Realize Earth day Internet) project
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