#Coral Restoration Foundation

[fandomtrumpshate]

2024 Supported Org Umbrella: Environmental Orgs

Climate crisis is here, and it's urgent. Rising global temperatures and shrinking wildlands have caused a cascade of disasters for humans and non-humans alike. But although some of the effects of climate change are beyond the point of reversal, many can still be rolled back or avoided entirely -- if we all work together. Thousands of hands-on environmental groups are working to preserve, restore and protect their own small corner of the planet -- and together, they are mitigating and even healing some of the damage.

While important work is being done by large-scale environmental organizations such as the NRDC and the Nature Conservancy, much of the most vital work in environmental preservation and renewal is taking place at the local level. Smaller organizations, working on a particular habitat or ecosystem (or even a particular element of an ecosystem) can pay attention to local conditions, and work with local communities, in a manner that larger organizations rarely achieve.

You can support small, local environmental organizations as a creator in the 2024 FTH auction (or as a bidder, when the time comes to donate for the auctions you’ve won.) You can do this either by selecting one (or more) of the wonderful organizations on our list or by choosing one local to you.

[bumblebeeappletree]

Coral Restoration Foundation, located in Key Largo, Florida, operates the largest coral-reef-restoration program in the world. Jessica Levy, its director of restoration strategy, explains how coral-reef health has an effect on our entire planet and walks us through the steps Coral Restoration Foundation takes to bring reefs back from the brink of extinction.

For more information, visit https://www.coralrestoration.org/

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[mossandfog]

Waters Around Florida Are So Hot, Scientists Are Removing Coral to Save Them

With the recent, massive heatwaves around the northern hemisphere, there’s more than just human suffering when the temperatures get that hot. In southern Florida, the ocean temperatures have reached a shocking 101º F (38.3 C) or higher, the highest recorded. In addition to feeling like a hot tub on a hot day, the extreme ocean temperatures are wreaking havoc on coral reefs, with many of them…

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Restoring Hawai`iʻs Coral Reefs - A Visit With Alika Garcia" 

For years, Alika Garcia was a fisherman on the ocean and during that time one thing kept bugging him. He realized that in fishing, he was taking from the ocean, but he was never giving anything back. And thatʻs how Kuleana Coral Restoration, a group of fishermen, surfers, and ocean advocates working to restore and protect Hawai`iʻs coral reefs, was born. As he told us, what happens to the fish in the ocean directly affects what happens to us. Join us in our visit along the beautiful west coast of O`ahu as he explains why the health of Hawai`iʻs reefs are connected to the health of our people.

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[cheekedupwhiteboy]

The situation in Florida and around the globe has some coral scientists confronting a dark reality: Coral restoration, which started as a noble endeavor back when humans weren’t this far down the road of climate breakdown, is bearing little fruit. It has failed to keep up with wave after wave of loss, yet remains the bulk of what’s being done to help ailing reefs. And scientists in the field are scrambling to figure out what comes next, with no clear consensus. “What we were doing 10 years ago was working, and it was the strategy that we could do at the time, but things are changing fast. This year, in particular, should have been a wake-up call to everybody,” said Ken Nedimyer, who founded CRF in 2007 but left in 2017 to start another outfit called Reef Renewal USA. “What we were doing and are doing is not going to work. We’ve got to do something different.” “To rinse and repeat,” he added, “the results are going to be exactly the same, which is failure.” [...]

When it comes to the threat of human-caused climate change, the world’s fragile reefs are often described as the canary in the coal mine. “If the coal mine is the Keys, the canary is dead,” said Bill Precht, a veteran coral scientist based in Miami. Even before last summer, upwards of 90% of coral on Florida’s reef had vanished due to warming temperatures, pollution and sediment runoff, disease outbreaks — stony coral tissue loss being the worst of them — and other threats. Coverage of stony corals, those that build hard skeletons and are the foundation of Florida’s 350-mile reef, was around just 2%, down from historical levels of 30% to 40%.

[noaasanctuaries]

BREAKING NEWS

Thousands of corals, including some of the last known genotypes on the Florida Reef, have been relocated in a pair of rescue events organized by NOAA in response to record-breaking ocean temperatures in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

🎥: Coral Restoration Foundation

[skarsjoy]

NEW PODCAST! ‘Hollywood star Alexander Skarsgård is @Spotify's new voice of conscious capitalism—here’s why Sweden is the world leader’ {Swipe for intro}

Per Ryan Hogg from Fortune, Alexander Skarsgård is launching How We Fix This, a new podcast that seeks to highlight some of the world’s most exciting, planet-saving ventures and give listeners fresh access to climate change-fighting role models.

Skarsgård is hosting and narrating the new podcast series developed alongside impact-driven non-profit foundation Norrsken, started in 2016 by Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth.

“My observation as a Swedish-American, and I’m obviously generalizing here, is that Americans have a real talent for storytelling and big ideas. Swedes tend to be drawn to the more humble and understated, bordering on self-deprecation,” Skarsgård told Fortune.

“The world would probably be a better place with less people like Lukas Matsson and more people like the founders on How We Fix This,” he says.

“But then again, tell a guy like Lukas Matsson there’s no way he can restore all the coral reefs in our oceans.”

This was announced today, June 12, 2024 but the podcast dropped yesterday, June 11. There will be new episodes on Wednesdays.

Listen on Spotify Photo by Magnus Ragnvid. Video from norrskenfoundation on Instagram.

[myulalie]

Both Scott and Stiles get bitten on that fateful night in the preserve, and their choices differ from then on (read on AO3).

Fandom: Teen Wolf

Chapters: 1/11

Words: 48k

Rating: Teen

Archive Warning: None

Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski ; Peter Hale & Stiles Stilinski ; Erica Reyes & Stiles Stilinski ; Jackson Whittemore & Stiles Stilinski ; Scott McCall & Stiles Stilinski ; Background Vernon Boyd/Erica Reyes

Characters: Stiles Stilinski ; Derek Hale ; Peter Hale ; Jackson Whittemore ; Scott McCall ; Erica Reyes ; Vernon Boyd ; Isaac Lahey ; Allison Argent ; Chris Argent ; Kate Argent ; Gerard Argent ; Sheriff Stilinski

Additional tags: AU - Canon Divergence ; Season 1 Rewrite ; Alpha Peter ; Werewolf Stiles ; Beta Derek ; Pack Bonds/Dynamic ; Pack Building ; Found Family ; Canon Typical Violence ; Minor Character Deaths ; Morally Grey Stiles ; Dubious Morality ; Bad Friend Scott McCall

Notes: This work is part of Fandom Trumps Hate 2024 and specifically a gift to panicbutton in thanks for your donation to a nonprofit: Coral Restoration Foundation.

Complimentary: playlist & moodboard.

[kirame90]

Caught pt 30

I swear if Sniper could purr, he absolutely would right now. I hope you guys are ready for some intensive aftercare cuddles and teeth-rotting sweetness that follows the sweaty hotness. You have been warned.

The coloured & uncensored versions are located on my Patreon in case anyone’s interested. Please note that all of the pledges are going to non-profit charities as they always have.

The non-profit of February 2024 is Reef Life Foundation!

The Reef Life Foundation addresses habitat loss through the direct deployment of the ideal coral substrate and community engagement, restoring the critical balance between people and nature. Their approach provides substrate at scale, increasing the speed of coral outplanting and wild coral growth. Hiring local staff, they deploy Oceanite, a new kind of artificial reef that is engineered to mimic the chemistry, mineral composition, and texture of a natural reef for optimal growth of healthy reef species.

Read more about their projects here

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2,600-Year-Old Temple Filled With ‘Exotic Offerings’ Found in Greece

In 2017, while exploring a sanctuary devoted to a goddess in Greece, archaeologists discovered the first traces of a monumental structure at the heart of the sanctuary.

Now, after years of excavations, the team has unearthed what has been identified as a temple filled with treasures, altars and “exotic offerings,” according to a Jan. 8 news release from the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece, which oversaw the excavation with the help of the Ephorate of Antiquities in Euboea.

The temple was discovered “at the heart of the sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia,” researchers said. Artemis was the Greek goddess of wild animals as well as chastity and childbirth.

Archaeologists said the temple — which was built sometime toward the end of the seventh century B.C. — “held a number of surprises,” starting with is floor plan. The building was apsidal, meaning it had a semi-circular dome-like structure at one end.

This kind of floor plan, popularized during the Early Christian era between the fourth and eighth centuries A.D., was “quite unusual” for the time the temple was built, the team said.

The temple was “larger than originally anticipated,” measuring about 100 feet, according to experts. This measurement is symbolic, and several other monuments from the same period share the same dimensions.

Inside the structure, researchers found “another surprising discovery”: an abundance of hearths or altars.

Typical Greek sanctuaries of the time built these structure outside of the temple, but archaeologists said they found the stone platforms — covered with thick layers of ash and bones — within the building.

One altar, shaped like a horseshoe, appears to have occupied a pronaos — a vestibule surrounded by columns on the exterior of the temple — and has evidence that it was used as early as the end of the eighth century B.C., predating the temple, officials from Greece’s Ministry of Culture said in a Jan. 8 news release.

The team also discovered a rich collection of offerings, it said.

Among their finds were alabaster artifacts, vases, ritual water jugs, amulets, bronze and iron fittings, and precious jewelry made of gold, silver, coral and amber, officials said in their release.

Experts also identified a “finely chiseled ivory head with Egyptian features,” they said. The “exotic” object was “unrecognizable” when first identified, but it has been restored.

Evidence at the temple indicates that it partially burned down in the later half of the sixth century B.C., according to archaeologists. The building was temporarily restored with mud brick walls until it could be entirely replaced and restored at the end of the century.

EVIDENCE OF AN EVEN EARLIER TEMPLE

Beneath the foundation of the temple, archaeologists said they discovered deep trenches containing remains from a building possibly dating to the ninth or eighth century B.C.

Bronze animal figurines from the same period and a terracotta bull’s head dating to the late Bronze Age — roughly 1200 B.C. — were also found in the trenches, according to researchers. Excavations of the lower levels of remains are ongoing, but early finds indicate that the site was used by Artemis worshipers earlier than the temple’s construction.

BRONZE AGE REMAINS NEARBY

The sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia is at the foot of a hill that was occupied during the Bronze Age, experts said.

Excavations of the hill have identified “imposing walls” that likely belonged to a third millenium B.C. fortification system, archaeologists said.

A tomb, filled with skeletons and offerings, was also unearthed from the hill, according to Greek officials.

Researchers continue to explore the region to determine how the temple and sanctuary fit into the broader “ancient landscape,” they said.

Amarynthos is on the Greek island Evia, also known as Euboea, which is off the country’s southwest coast.

By MOIRA RITTER.

[fandomtrumpshate]

Where we stand with donations, March 16

If we hadn't had all the Google troubles, today would be the deadline to get your high bidder donation in - we've bumped that back to Tuesday the 19th, so you have a couple more days if you haven't donated yet!

We are very excited about the totals we're racking up for MECA and Sherlock's Homes, our top two nonprofits this year, but we do hope all our groups get enough donations to make a real difference.

Some people wait to see which orgs are getting fewer donations before submitting their own; if that's you, here are the five nonprofits on our list with the smallest share of donations so far:

Wildlands Restoration Volunteers 0.5% Deploy/Us 0.6% Together Bay Area 1.2% Life After Hate 1.7% Violence Policy Center 1.8%

All five of these still have yet to reach $1000 each in donations, which we really hope all our groups will be able to hit during a record-breaking year like this!

The full list of which nonprofits are getting what share of donations is under the cut!

Middle East Children's Alliance 36.7% Sherlock's Homes Foundation 13.2% Pollinator Partnership 7.4% In Our Own Voice 6.6% National Network to End Domestic Violence 4.6% Razom 4.5% Coral Restoration Foundation 4.0% VoteRiders 3.9% Spread the Vote 3.6% Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center 2.8% Bellingcat 2.1% Never Again Action 1.9% Violence Policy Center 1.9% Life After Hate 1.7% Other (non env.) 1.5% Other (env.) 1.3% Together Bay Area 1.2% Deploy/Us 0.6% Wildlands Restoration Volunteers 0.5%

[sterekbros]

Hey everyone! So I'm participating this year in FTH fanworks auctions for non-profits! I'm open to any organizations you may want to donate to for the auction, but I'm especially interested in the Coral Restoration Foundation and Pollinator Partnership because of my passion for the environment.

You can find my creator page here.

Obviously I'm offering Sterek for the auction. Here's a sneak peak of what I'm offering on the creator page:

Romantic Sterek, Stiles & Lydia as BrOtp (within Sterek fics), A/B/O (Omegaverse) with Alpha Derek and Omega Stiles, Mpreg, Kid fics, Slice of Life, Derek and Stiles as Eli's parents, fluff, domestic fluff, established relationships, Sci-fi, most AUs. (send a message on Discord to ask), Space AUs, Happy Endings Only

If you have any questions feel free to contact me here or on Discord!

[deepdowninshipperhell]

Bidding for the Fandom Trumps Hate charity auctions is now open, and will remain open until March 9th at 8:00 PM EST.

I am once again participating as an author under the nick IetjeSiobhan, so if you’d like me to write a fic just for you – and support a good cause – this is your option! You can find my FTH entry here.

To get an overview of my writing, you can find my ao3 account here.

What exactly am I offering?

A written work within the Haikyuu fandom, F1 RPF, or an Original Work.

Word count: 5-10k

Max Rating: Explicit (so whether you’d like something G or T rated or something more spicy is up to you – I’m happy to work with you).

What am I especially interested in?: For Haikyuu, I especially enjoy writing Kuroken or any of the Haikyuu girls in any combination. Generally, themes I enjoy include (but are not limited to) Mutual Pining, Secret Relationships, Idiots to Lovers, Fantasy, Shapeshifting, and Omegaverse. I am also happy to write kink content and darker themes, but if you have a very specific theme in mind, it’s probably best to dm me before bidding to ascertain that I’d be a good fit for writing it!

What am I unwilling to write?: I feel uncomfortable writing ships I have not written for before (you can check my ao3 to get an overview). For F1, there might be exceptions to this rule – best dm me if you have something specific in mind! Femslash ships are also generally exempt from this rule. Additionally, I am unwilling to write angst without a happy ending, unrequited love, MCD, and themes of heavy mental illness, such as self-harm and eating disorders.

Other notes: I both enjoy working with very specific prompts, very loose ideas, and anything in-between! If you only have a vague thought, that’s fine for me and I’ll most likely have a lot of fun with it, but if you’d like to be more involved and have a very specific idea, I’d also be delighted about working with that! I generally tend to check in several times during the writing process, even if I don’t have immediate news or anything that requires input, just to let you know how things are progressing!

Which organisations is my auction open to benefitting this year?: Bellingcat *, Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center *, In Our Own Voice *, Life After Hate, Middle East Children's Alliance *, National Network to End Domestic Violence *, Never Again Action *, Razom *, Sherlock's Homes Foundation *, Violence Policy Center *, Environmental Org: Pollinator Partnership *, Environmental Org: Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, Environmental Org: Coral Restoration Foundation * (*-marked organisations can be donated to internationally)

The Minimum Bid for my auction: $5

If you’re not interested in my works, (or even if you are,) do check out the other great offers this year! The FTH auction was a great joy to participate in last year, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. And hey, have I mentioned yet that it’s for a good cause?

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the Associated Press (AP):

The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history, a $100 million gift the fundraising group described as transformative for the country’s national parks.

The National Park Foundation, which Congress created in the 1960s to support national parks, will receive the donation from Indianapolis-based foundation Lilly Endowment Inc. The park foundation described the gift on Monday as the largest grant in history benefiting U.S. national parks.

The money will be used to address the needs of the country’s more than 400 national park sites, said Will Shafroth, president and CEO of the National Park Foundation.

The foundation hopes to announce the first round of grants stemming from the donation later this year, Shafroth said.

Exactly how the money will be utilized remains to be seen, but one of the foundation’s priorities is restoring coral reefs at Biscayne National Park in Florida, Shafroth said, while another priority is the restoration of trout species in western national parks. Those are among the foundation’s recent investments.

In addition to funding initiatives that protect fragile ecosystems and species, Shafroth said the money will also be used to create opportunities for young people to visit national parks.

The National Park Foundation is in the midst of its “Campaign for National Parks,” a $1 billion fundraising effort to support parks. Lilly Endowment made the gift to support that effort, said N. Clay Robbins, chair and CEO of Lilly Endowment.

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