Job Title: Pride Program Manager
Role: Course Manager (PPM), Rare Staff (RS)
Organizations: Rare
I knew I was a conservationist when: As an 8 year old I started a fight with another small boy because he purposely squashed an insect on the classroom wall.
Job Title: Conservation and Social Enterprise Fellow in Social Marketing
Organizations: Rare
I knew I was a conservationist when:
I first watched Dr. John McCosker on a National Geographic video.
Role: Campaign Manager (CM), Course Manager (PPM), Rare Staff (RS)
Organizations: Rare
Job Title: Director, Philippines, PEP
Role: Course Manager (PPM), Rare Staff (RS)
Organizations: Rare
I knew I was a conservationist when: I joined my first dynamite fishing trip to the North of Bohol, Philippines (my home in 1995) in a place called the Danajon Bank and watched literally everything blown up by a group of poor fishers (poor literally and educationally) - dynamiting was their "livelihood" and back then there was very little stigma associated with dynamite fishing and they were in fact very proud and macho dynamiters! After seeing that I realized it wasn't so much that these people were "bad", they were just doing what they knew best - but it did tell me the whole "system" was wrong and there was lots for me to do.. I still haven't left 15 years on and there is still lot's to do!