{"id":379,"date":"2010-02-12T21:14:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/?p=379"},"modified":"2010-02-22T21:41:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:41:06","slug":"maryann-lucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/2010\/02\/12\/maryann-lucking\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryann Lucking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coralations.org\/about_coralations\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.coralations.org\/about_coralations\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puertorico-herald.org\/issues\/2002\/vol6n35\/ConserConster-en.html\">http:\/\/www.puertorico-herald.org\/issues\/2002\/vol6n35\/ConserConster-en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maryann Lucking is the founder and current Director of CORALations , a nonprofit membership coral reef conservation organization based in Puerto Rico.\u00a0\u00a0 Since 1995,\u00a0the tall blond powerhouse\u00a0has worked tirelessly to fulfill the mission of CORALations to CONSERVE, NURTURE, and EDUCATE\u00a0 by working with Caribbean communities to protect and restore their coral reefs.\u00a0 \u00a0She leads CORALations to implement aggressive conservation initiatives with public education and community participation. These initiatives focus on &#8220;real time&#8221; solutions to coral reef\u00a0 <!--more-->conservation and address the modification of two human behaviors impacting Caribbean coral reefs: pollution of coastal waters, and direct physical damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under her leadership, CORALations works to establish &#8220;no-take&#8221; marine fishery reserve areas.\u00a0 It provides assistance to local scientists collecting data to support marine reserve areas and educate the public about the importance of the coral reef ecosystem and threats to this ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Maryann is justifiably proud of the Conservation Youth Corps, where local teens learn ocean conservation issues by participating hands-on in marine biological field research and are then encouraged to take part in educational outreach presentations to share their knowledge and experiences with peers and adults in a public forum.\u00a0 CORALations also distributes bilingual educational materials on the coral reef ecosystem to schools and to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>But Maryann\u2019s most valuable work is as a watchdog for coral reefs.\u00a0 She presses for and supports legislation to protect coral reef and marine fisheries and reviews and comments on the sustainability of environmentally questionable construction projects in Puerto Rico.\u00a0 She is committed to improving the quality of Puerto Rico\u2019s coastal waters through zero-discharge advanced wastewater treatment technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Maryann is one of the worlds foremost grassroots coral reef leaders.\u00a0 We salute you for your continuing stamina in the face of discouraging odds.\u00a0 Thanks for all your good work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.coralations.org\/about_coralations\/index.htm http:\/\/www.puertorico-herald.org\/issues\/2002\/vol6n35\/ConserConster-en.html Maryann Lucking is the founder and current Director of CORALations , a nonprofit membership coral reef conservation organization based in Puerto Rico.\u00a0\u00a0 Since 1995,\u00a0the tall blond powerhouse\u00a0has worked tirelessly to fulfill the mission of CORALations to CONSERVE, NURTURE, and EDUCATE\u00a0 by working with Caribbean communities to protect and restore their coral reefs.\u00a0 \u00a0She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/2010\/02\/12\/maryann-lucking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maryann Lucking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}