by Kate Longley-Wood | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
With a global spread, mangrove tourism is much bigger than most people would imagine, worth billions of dollars with tens of millions of visitors In a new study researchers used User Generated Content (ie. TripAdvisor) to tell this story, which allowed them to not...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Mar 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you’ve visited oceanwealth.org recently, you may notice a few subtle, but meaningful changes. During the first phase of Mapping Ocean Wealth the primary focus was on the data — identifying existing sources, consulting experts, deriving new models, and...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Jan 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Caribbean is more dependent on tourism than any other region across the globe, and a new study by The Nature Conservancy and JetBlue shows the powerful value of coral reef ecosystems to both the tourism industry and to the to the economic success and stability of...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Dec 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Climate change is a portfolio problem. There’s no one cause, nor is there a silver bullet to fix the problem. Rather, the solution will lie in a portfolio of measures, and many of the solutions will stem from nature. To explain how natural solutions to carbon storage...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Oct 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Healthy mangroves are a precious, almost priceless resource, and yet over the past 50 years the world has witnessed staggering levels of mangrove loss and degradation. Mangroves can, quite literally save lives during storms, but losing mangroves also means losing...