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Oikonos is a non-profit 501(c) (3)
organization working locally and internationally to increase awareness
and understanding of human impacts on marine ecosystems and improve biodiversity
conservation on imperiled islands.
What's New for Summer 2009: New Partnerships
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Creative Minds Coming
Together to Restore an Island Refuge
Talented organizations are working with Oikonos
to protect and restore biodiversity on Año Nuevo Island: one
of the few islands off California for marine wildlife to raise young
and rest free from mammalian predators.
Concrete and metal from the old Coast Guard
Lightstation will be 'remixed' to create auklet nesting crevices
and transform this human trash.
Since 2001, Go
Native has provided invaluable services and expertise to the
restoration. Go Native is dedicated to preserving and restoring
the wild and open places in California.
Now
Rebar joins the team. Rebar is an art and design collective
based in San Francisco. Their work spans numerous disciplinary boundaries,
including landscape installation, environmental art and absurdity.
Learn more
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Community
Efforts to Control Invasive Plants on the Juan Fernández
Islands
As on many islands around the world, the biodiversity
of the Juan Fernández Archipelago
off Chile, is threatened by invasive plants. Local experts, volunteers,
and U.S. researchers are learning from each other the best methods
to improve the habitat.

Paola, one of the local project coordinators,
teaching volunteers about seedling identification.

Sweat together, stay together. Collaborative
group working together on experimental plots to exclude herivores.
Learn
more
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San Francisco Bay Marine
Debris Collaborative
Under the leadership of Carol Keiper, Oikonos
has joined a new collaboration to conduct floating marine debris
research on San Francisco Bay. Their goals include sharing knowledge
about debris accumulation, transport, and wildlife affects to improve
management and policy. Oikonos is proud to be developing projects
with the following organizations:
Romberg
Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies (SFSU)
California Audubon
Society
Baykeeper

Contact Carol
Keiper for more details
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