EOCA's autumn Project Funding Vote starts today, plus updates on current projects and Green Friday Fundraiser.
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Project Funding Vote OPENS Today
Vote for your favourite conservation projects NOW!
Dear Friends
Our Project Funding Vote starts today (Friday 15 October). We had a tremendous response to our call for applications. With the invaluable help of our Scientific Advisers team we have selected a shortlist of 17 very worthwhile projects. Tell your friends, family, customers, colleagues and everyone you know to vote for their favourite project in each of the three categories: Forest, Water, Wild Places! Make a difference in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss and vote now!
On 26 November, we are holding our next online conservation fundraiser - Green Friday. With the urgent need for action on a global scale to help mitigate biodiversity loss and the climate emergency, we are extremely keen to make our online fundraisers as successful as possible to enable the funding of many more projects.
Governments around the world are currently trying to agree a new set of goals to address the deterioration of nature and biodiversity at COP15, which is taking place in China. From 31 October, world leaders will again meet at COP26 to commit to urgent global climate action. Read more below about why EOCA has partnered with Business for Nature, and hundreds of other businesses, to address biodiversity loss and climate change.
Also in the newsletter are updates on the progress made by seven of our previously funded projects. A few have been successfully completed, while others have made a great start.
We may be coming towards the end of another year, but we still have much more planned. We will keep you updated via our newsletter or follow us on social media (links at the bottom of the newsletter).
Thanks from all the team at EOCA and don’t forget to vote for your favourite conservation project!
Tanya, Catherine, Cat and Sharon.
Voting is now OPEN!
The Project Funding Vote starts today! You can help choose the next projects that EOCA will support. The 17 projects, in three categories: Water, Forest, Wild Places, all address loss of biodiversity and climate change, focussing on conservation, protection and reconnection of habitats.
Full project details and voting can be found here. Please share the link below and encourage everyone you know to get involved in conservation, choose their favourite projects and vote!
Link to vote - https://bit.ly/ProjectVote2021
Green Friday Conservation Fundraiser
Following the success of our Green (Black) Friday conservation fundraiser last year, we are delighted to announce that we will be holding the event again on Friday 26 November. EOCA members have already started to generously donate items to the Outdoor Gear for Good eBay site. Keep checking for more great outdoor gear!
Keep checking our social media pages and website for the latest updates.
COP15 and COP26 - Addressing biodiversity loss and climate change
The race is on for a nature positive world! The two intricately linked issues of biodiversity loss and climate change are key threats facing the world today.
The UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, currently being held in China, and COP26, starting on 31 October in Glasgow (UK), will bring together world leaders to commit to urgent global climate action to address the deterioration of nature and biodiversity.
These conferences highlight the urgency and relevance of EOCAs work and we thank all of our members for enabling us to continue to fund vital conservation work around the world.
EOCA is proud to be a partner of Business for Nature, joining more than 1,000 businesses calling for ambitious and collective action for nature. Business for Nature’s Call to Action is asking governments to adopt policies now to reverse nature loss in this decade.
Read more about why EOCA has joined Business for Nature to influence ambitious outcomes for nature.
Project update: Dos Manos - Spain
Save the Med Foundation - 270 volunteers joined beach cleans and microplastic survey events to clear a growing form of single-use pollution resulting from the pandemic.
Project update: Stop the ALPs becoming plastic mountains - Italy
European Research Institute - Working with four mountain huts to eliminate plastic bottles and single-use cutlery, as well as organising volunteer clean-up events and holding nature training workshops.
Project update: Clean up Himalaya to sustain high altitude heritage - Nepal
Resources Himalaya Foundation - Volunteers cleared 65kg of rubbish along the Gosaikunda trail and Dunche area. Another clean-up event earlier this year with a number of colleges in Kathmandu and local people, cleared an additional 110kg of waste.
Project update: Paddling, cleaning, teaching - Brazil
APRENDER Ecology - Paddling 430km between Guaratuba and Praia Grande, collecting an incredible 1 tonne of rubbish! All waste collected has been given to Eco Local Brazil for recycling and will be reused to produce benches, toys, surfing fins and other useful items.
Project update: 10,000 native trees for Froxan community – Spain
The Froxan Foundation - Exotic invasive species have been eradicated, native tree undergrowth nurtured, 11,384 native tree species planted and 26 hectares of important habitats restored.
Project update: Protection of critical orangutan habitat - Borneo
Borneo Nature Foundation - Forest fires in the Sebangau Forest are on track to be reduced by 25%. A total of 48,902 local tree species have been planted, reforesting a 50ha area of burnt peat-swamp.
Project update: Reforestation and wildfire prevention - Indonesian Borneo
Yayasan Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) - Five hectares of garden have been converted to forest through the planting of 3,050 seedlings. Forest and Land Fire Management Training was delivered to representatives from local communities in addition to 30 Forest Guardians to help prevent future wildfires.
