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C H A R T E R
Just 2 per cent of all philanthropic donations go towards preserving and even reversing the decline
in natural biodiversity.
Our first Island Preservation project in Ibiza concerned five themes: landscape and marine
conservation, food production, fresh water provision, waste management and renewable energy.
We now have projects in Mallorca and Menorca, Italy’s Aeolian Islands, the Cyclades in Greece and
St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean.
We work with the local experts who are best placed to understand ecological and management
issues and also have most to gain from the improved condtions.
While this is an appeal for donations, it is also the opportunity for you to
become involved. Come and see where your money goes, meet the locals and
even participate in the works – for an hour, a morning or as long as you wish.
BEN GOLDSMITH
Island Preservation Fund
For more information visit aeolianpreservationfund.org
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BLUE MARINE FOUNDATION PLASTIC OCEANS
Dedicated to creating marine reserves and establishing Working with Plastic Ocean’s, we are conscious of the
sustainable fishing rights, the Foundation’s 14 initiatives issue of plastic water bottles being discarded into the
include work in Lyme Bay in the UK, the plight of sturgeon in sea. Edmiston is producing reusable aluminium containers
the Caspian Sea, safeguarding coral in Belize and protecting to be distributed at regattas and boat shows throughout
the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean. the summer. For a set of aluminium bottles contact your
www.bluemarinefoundation.com
Edmiston broker.