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Environmental Leadership Workshop
Providing the skills, confidence & inspiration to make a difference!
This year, we have paired with Miami Dade College's Earth Ethics Institute to bring you up to speed on Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, Clean Energy, Leadership & More with experts in their field.
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You Showed Up for the Bay- Team Jersey & All!
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Save Biscayne National Park's Marine Reserve
Comments Due: August 14
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| Following 15 years of scientific research and overwhelming public support*, 6% of Biscayne National Park was set aside in June to create a Marine Reserve to protect the park's ailing coral reefs and help restore fish populations. Biscayne Bay once flourished with native species such as gray snapper and black grouper. Now, these species are rarely seen and typically undersized when spotted. This sliver of preserve still allows the public to dive, snorkel, swim and enjoy boating in our country's largest marine national park. Members of Congress want to scuttle the Marine Reserve one month after it was created. Their logic; is that the Marine Reserve curtails public access to all of Biscayne National Park. Show your support for the Marine Reserve, which will help revive our coral reef habitats and invigorate fish populations. |
| Please submit your comments for the House Committee on Natural Resources and House Committee on Small Business joint oversight hearing titled: "Restricted Access at Biscayne National Park and Implications for Fishermen, Small Businesses, the local Economy and Environment". Click Here to Email Comments due August 14, 2015: cmlaughlin@npca.org & cc biscayne@tropicalaudubon.org Social Medial: #MoreFishInFl |
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Squelch Applications filed for UDB Expansion
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| TAS Director Laura Reynolds Standing Up for The UDB |
Read More on how TAS is protecting the UDB in the
Miami Herald
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Sign the Petition Against Nuclear Expansion at Turkey Point
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SIGN THE PETITION TODAY- FPL's Turkey Point Nuclear ExpansionDoes Not Account for Climate Change and Should Be Denied!
Turkey Point sits on low coastal land on the edge of Biscayne Bay, an area that is extremely vulnerable to flooding and storm surge. Because the existing Turkey Point power plant was built in the 1970s, the decades-old site should not dictate today's energy decision-making. The plant sits above the Biscayne Aquifer on the edge of Biscayne National Park, endangering, respectively, our only source of drinking water and a National Treasure.
Please sign the petition! Tell elected officials that Floridians want clean, safe affordable energy options, such as solar, that aren't vulnerable to the threats posed by Sea Level Rise.
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Help TAS Keep Salt Water Out of the Everglades:
Funding needed for Litigation, scientific expert advisors and outreach to enforce FPL's corporate responsibility.
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Who needs Green Space?
Sign the Petition to Save Our Parks
During recent difficult budget reviews, Miami-Dade County has suffered dramatic cuts to Parks budgets for operations and maintenance. If not reversed, tthese cuts will erode our parks from community assets to neighborhood blights.
With some additional funding for urgently needed repairs, we can start to restore our parks to community gathering places for our kids, our eldersand our families that we expect in our County.
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Join TAS in Conservation
Become a Member
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Whisk Tithes
10%
to the Birds
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Dine Out @ Whisk
Tonight 6-10pm!
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| Coastal Wetlands Conservation Days Saturday, August 8, 9am-1pm |
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Miami Pine Rockland Coalition Meeting
Thursday, August 13, 7-9pm
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Comments due: Marine Reserve
Friday, August 14
Please submit your comments for the House Committee on Natural Resources and House Committee on Small Business joint oversight hearing titled:
"Restricted Access at Biscayne National Park and Implications for Fishermen, Small Businesses, the local Economy and Environment".
Click Here to Email Comments due August 14:
cmlaughlin@npca.org & cc biscayne@tropicalaudubon.org
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Eco-Restoration Day
Saturday, August 15, 8am-noon
Get your daily dose of Vitamin D & a full body Work Out! (don't forget your sunscreen!)
Learn about indigenous plants and help us maintain our near-native landscape at the Steinberg Nature Center TAS campus. We need you!
Eco-Restoration Days are held on the 3rd Saturday of every month. We're flexible -- show up when you can, between 8:30 am and noon -- you will find a host of conservationists, birders, plant lovers and gardeners just like you lending a hand.
Volunteer to Get Your Hands Dirty! (We provide gloves!)
This is a great way to earn community service hours and a fun team-building activity!
Call: 305-667-7337 orEmail us to Volunteer to Volunteer!
Tropical Audubon Society 5530 Sunset Dr., Miami, Fl 33143
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Conservation Committee Meeting:
Wednesday, August 26, 7:30pm
We come together to do the little things that make a big difference, and to tackle the big things that take a village on the 4th Wednesday of every month.
You don't need to be a scientist or TAS member to know that clean water, green space and solar energy are good things. Participate and make a difference. We welcome diverse viewpoints and skill sets.
Help us peck away at the challenging conservation
issues of our time.
With your assistance, we can build capacity, infrastructure and increase our reach!
Please collaborate in and contribute to our Mission to conserve South Florida's wildlife, habitats and natural resources.
Tropical Audubon Society: 5530 Sunset Dr., Miami, Fl, 33143
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Rally for The Bay
w/the Biscayne Bay Coalition
Monday, August 29, 4-6pm
Take Action:
Your voice matters. Please share your viewpoint with the environmental agencies responsible for permits; be sure to cc your elected officials as to why the National Marine Manufacturers Association
should take all appropriate measures to protect the environmental resources that Biscayne Bay and Virginia Key offer residents and visitors.
Click Here for a few points to jump-start your Letter & Where to send it
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Full Moon Paddle Out: Chapman Field
Saturday, August 29, 7:30pm
This leisurely twilight paddle-out through Biscayne Bay will remind you of why we all live here in the first place. BYO food and drink to enjoy while we float by the light of the moon. There will be glow sticks!
Minimum age 9 years, accompanied by an adult. Wear closed-toe water shoes, long sleeves, recommend swimwear. Bring lunch and water. A $50 donation per paddler ($25 for TAS members), which includes Paddle Out map, sticker and annual TAS membership.
Please RSVP with name, email and phone number to paddleout@outlook.com
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What's Your Thing?
Join a Coalition Today!
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| Watch this Video to Understand why Pine Rocklands are important |
Pine Rockland is one of two types of pineland that occurs in the Everglades, and is characterized by outcroppings of oolitic limestone on the Miami Rock Ridge. In his "Everglades National Park and the Surrounding Area"
guidebook, TAS Honorary Director Roger Hammer writes that "Fewer than 4,000 acres of Pine Rockland remain outside of Everglades National Park, and that due to the mixture of temperate and tropical plants, Pine Rockland communities have the greatest wealth of biodiversity to be found in Florida."
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Endorsing smart growth projects
within our urban core
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Created in 1975, the Urban Development Boundary (UDB) is an invisible line running along the south and western areas of the county hemmed by a buffer of agricultural lands. The agricultural corridor separates high-density zoning of urban Miami from the low-density zoning of the Everglades -- the main source of water for 8 million Floridians.
The objective of the
Hold-the- Line Coalition
is to ensure that South Florida becomes sustainable and resilient by protecting the rural and natural resource areas to the west and south of the UDB, and by endorsing Smart Growth projects within our urban core.
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Biscayne Bay Coalition (BBC) is on the Biscayne Bay frontlines to protect this vast body of water. Stretching 35 miles along South Florida's Atlantic Coast, the bay is home to fish nurseries that feed our herons, spoonbills and other wading birds; it provides drinking water for a large human population, as well.
TAS is a BBC founding member, and recruits civic groups and concerned citizens to join the BBC. The Coalition advocates for the integrity, preservation and restoration of a healthy, viable Biscayne Bay.
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Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir Project Coalition (EAA) #BuyTheLand & #SaveFLWater!
Click here to join.
The current level of water flowing through the Everglades ecosystem is not enough! More clean, fresh water needs to flow south if we are to successfully restore our River of Grass and recharge our aquifer.
Encourage Legislators and Governor Scott to identify land south of Lake Ockechobee so we can purchase it to build a reservoir and send water south to the Everglades.
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