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Category Archives: Sam
Putting your best Marine Conservation fin forward: Advice for attending a conference
Heading to your first scientific or conservation conference or symposium can be both intimidating and exciting. Networking with your peers and with those in higher positions than you, proving your worth and absorbing heaps of information isn’t easy but it … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development, Sam, The Zoox Staff
Tagged conservation, coral, coral reef, education, experience, Green Fins, marine conservation, Philippines, SE Asia, Training, Zoox
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Marine Conservation Professionals: What does your social media presence say about you?
Your social media presence can give you an edge over other applicants for your dream job, but only if you do it right. Check out these tips from Sam, our Senior Programmes Officer. Continue reading
Five reasons why we love the Philippines
As many of you know, we run the majority of our courses on a few of the 7,107 (at high tide) islands of the Philippines. SE Asia is home to many beautiful countries and diverse cultures, but this archipelago holds a … Continue reading
Posted in Sam, The Philippines, The Zoox Staff
Tagged conservation, coral triangle, diving, life in The Philippines, Philippines, Pinoy, zoox experience programme
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The Big Zoox Move
After five fantastic years based in the picturesque village of Aninuan, Puerto Galera we made the bold decision to relocate the team and training facility to the quaint city of Dumaguete on the island of Negros Oriental. Aninuan is, and … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Sam, The Philippines, The Zoox Staff
Tagged dumaguete, jeepney, marine conservation, marine conservation philippines, MCP, negros oriental, Philippines
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Terrified of Twitter? Social Media for Marine Conservation
How many times have you heard, or even uttered “I don’t get Twitter”? Or “I don’t see the point of it”. I hear it so often from volunteers, friends, and family and I think it’s a real shame. I am … Continue reading
A love affair with Conservation
It has long been said that it is a fine line between love and hate. When you feel passionate about someone or something it has the capacity to lift you up and bring you down, so so down. So I sit here, in El Nido, on Valentines Day, and … Continue reading
Posted in Sam, The Zoox Experience Programme, The Zoox Staff
Tagged ADEX, CITES, marine conservation, ocean, valentines day
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Bubbling below the surface…
Obligatory-tropical-sunset-shot I was going to write this blog about the plethora of achievements the team here has had in the last couple of weeks. I feel like, Christmas festivities aside, we’re powering through as a team, full speed ahead. The … Continue reading
The Inbetween(ers)
We’re rolling up to the next ZEP, our seventh, and as the Zoox team prepares it struck me that some of you might wonder what we get up to in between the Zoox Experience Programmes. If you’ve been on one of … Continue reading
Posted in Chloe, JJ, Sam, The Zoox Experience Programme, The Zoox Staff
Tagged capacity development, conservation, education, GLOC, Green Fins, Jamaica, Japan, marine conservation, NOWPAP, Philippines, SE Asia, sunshine, The Coron Initiative, Training, Zoox, zoox experience programme
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Week Eight: The end of another era for the ZEP
It’s week eight, and the two ZEP teams are running around finishing off personal projects, Green Fins coordination and trying to squeeze in those activities that “we have to do before we go”, and are evidently too busy to blog! … Continue reading
Half Time
Welcome to Week 4. We’re half way through ZEP #5. That’s right. We’ve only got a month left. My announcement of this during Team Malapascua’s weekly meeting was greeted with large intakes of breath. Assuming their sentiments mirror my own … Continue reading
Posted in Malapascua, Moalboal, Sam, The Zoox Staff
Tagged Asia, biodiversity, bsac, capacity development, cebu, coast, coastal, coral, coral reef, coral triangle, diving, ecosystem, education, fish, Green Fins, ICZM, jonny, malapascua, marine biology, marine conservation, marine protection, michal, moalboal, MPA, ocean, octopus, padi, pescador, Philippines, rachael, rays, reef, scuba, SE Asia, seas, sharks, sunshine, thresher, tropical, tropics, UNEP, wai, warm water, ZEP, Zoox, zoox experience programme
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