Living on the Edge with Mangroves by Susie Hairston When I saw that International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem was coming up on July 26th my mind immediately went to the Sundarbans, located in India and Bangladesh where the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers meet and form a delta in the Bay of Bengal. The Sundarbans is…
by Susie Hairston Ever since the movie Jaws came out, a large portion of the American public has viewed sharks in a negative light — as scary killers rather than the keystone species critical to the health of ocean ecosystems and thus fisheries humans rely on for food and jobs that they actually are. We have been taught to look at sharks…
This question and answer session was inspired by a poem written by Jim Blackburn and released in January, 2025, called “Bring It On,” written in response to Isabelle Scurry Chapman’s collage (shown above) The poem is provided below to give some context to the discussion. In honor of World Environment Day, CEC’s Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters had the opportunity to check-in with noted…