Living Oceans Trip April 2018
In April 2018, we’re building relationships with oceanic and marine protection organisations to take a journey exploring the impact of plastic waste on marine life in the Indonesian archipelago, and what we can do about it. Joined by marine biologist and micro-plastics researcher, Abby Barrows, the trip will look at not only the scientific aspects but also social, cultural and spiritual connections to embed our learning and tell a deeper story.
CERES trips are not tours but journeys to build real and lasting connections with local communities and groups based on shared understanding and experience.
“I still have close contact with people I met in Sembalun village, I learnt so much about their culture and the issues that they face in those two weeks and I have been back to visit my friends multiple times since then, CERES helps build lasting and enriching friendships.” (Indonesia, 2015)
This will be an incredible journey of learning, exploring and building genuine friendships and connection with local communities and organisations that we visit.
For more information:
Visit: http://ceres.org.au/glo
Loose Itinerary:
Bali
Commencing in Bali we will connect with key organisations innovating solutions to protect out oceans and reduce pollution. This will give us a background to the major issues of plastics pollution in Indonesia and how it can be tackled.
Nuda Penida
From there we will visit with the Coral Triangle Centre and travel by boat to the Nuda Penida Marine Protected Area to participate in a coral gardening project, visit the mangrove forest and snorkel the reefs.
Gili Islands
We will stop briefly at the Gili Islands, to connect with the Gili Eco trust and learn from them of their mammoth task in combating the impact of tourism on the islands. Here we will have the opportunity to join them on a paddle-board ocean plastics clean up safari (optional).
Lombok
In Lombok we will be visiting with our friends and partners and learn from locals, fishermen and small grassroots organisations about their relationship to the ocean and how the impacts of pollution are affecting them.
Pulau Sulat
Pulau Sluat is a small island off Lombok where we have been asked by the locals to come and talk with them about eco-tourism possibilities in their community. We would like to invite a few members of their community to join us on the trip so they can see for themselves the impacts of tourism and pollution on the beautiful environment of Indonesia.
Facilitator
Abby Barrows
Abby is a marine biologist and microplastics researcher who grew up on a small Maine island with the ocean as her playground. Her passion for travel and the outdoors brought her to the University of Tasmania, where she earned a degree in Zoology with a focus on Marine Biology. After spending time mapping the canopy of old-growth temperate rainforests and trapping Tasmanian devils, she studied seahorse diversity, distribution and trade in Papua New Guinea and sea turtle populations in Central America. Her fascination with wildlife and different cultures spurred travels from the South Pacific to the Himalayas, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, North Africa, Europe and South America.
Since 2012 she has directed microplastic research, initiating one of the first baseline data maps of microplastic pollution in global aquatic systems. Her plastic pollution research has taken her on expeditions to the Coral Triangle and Southern Oceans.
Why Travel with CERES Global
Our trips are not tours but rather journeys of exploration and learning that we share together.
They are real, lived experiences, where the people who travel with us immerse themselves in the culture and places we visit in a meaningful and mutually respectful way.
Our facilitators are not tour guides but facilitators or enablers.
They work with the group as a whole to achieve insight and understanding of the communities we visit. The facilitator’s role is to engage discussion within the group and with community members we are visiting to allow the sharing of ideas on social and environmental issues.
The people and places we visit are not tourist destinations or third party providers but rather real friends who we approach as true partner organisations.
All of our partners do exceptional work in the areas of sustainability, the environment, community development, social equity and education. We celebrate each other’s work through mutually beneficial exchange and two way learning.
The trips are open to people of any age or background wanting to travel with meaning and purpose, willing to open their hearts and minds to another culture and way of life.
Kind regards
In April 2018, we’re building relationships with oceanic and marine protection organisations to take a journey exploring the impact of plastic waste on marine life in the Indonesian archipelago, and what we can do about it. Joined by marine biologist and micro-plastics researcher, Abby Barrows, the trip will look at not only the scientific aspects but also social, cultural and spiritual connections to embed our learning and tell a deeper story.
CERES trips are not tours but journeys to build real and lasting connections with local communities and groups based on shared understanding and experience.
“I still have close contact with people I met in Sembalun village, I learnt so much about their culture and the issues that they face in those two weeks and I have been back to visit my friends multiple times since then, CERES helps build lasting and enriching friendships.” (Indonesia, 2015)
This will be an incredible journey of learning, exploring and building genuine friendships and connection with local communities and organisations that we visit.
For more information:
Visit: http://ceres.org.au/glo
Email: rose.samson@ceres.org.a
Loose Itinerary:
Bali
Commencing in Bali we will connect with key organisations innovating solutions to protect out oceans and reduce pollution. This will give us a background to the major issues of plastics pollution in Indonesia and how it can be tackled.
Nuda Penida
From there we will visit with the Coral Triangle Centre and travel by boat to the Nuda Penida Marine Protected Area to participate in a coral gardening project, visit the mangrove forest and snorkel the reefs.
Gili Islands
We will stop briefly at the Gili Islands, to connect with the Gili Eco trust and learn from them of their mammoth task in combating the impact of tourism on the islands. Here we will have the opportunity to join them on a paddle-board ocean plastics clean up safari (optional).
Lombok
In Lombok we will be visiting with our friends and partners and learn from locals, fishermen and small grassroots organisations about their relationship to the ocean and how the impacts of pollution are affecting them.
Pulau Sulat
Pulau Sluat is a small island off Lombok where we have been asked by the locals to come and talk with them about eco-tourism possibilities in their community. We would like to invite a few members of their community to join us on the trip so they can see for themselves the impacts of tourism and pollution on the beautiful environment of Indonesia.
Facilitator
Abby Barrows
Abby is a marine biologist and microplastics researcher who grew up on a small Maine island with the ocean as her playground. Her passion for travel and the outdoors brought her to the University of Tasmania, where she earned a degree in Zoology with a focus on Marine Biology. After spending time mapping the canopy of old-growth temperate rainforests and trapping Tasmanian devils, she studied seahorse diversity, distribution and trade in Papua New Guinea and sea turtle populations in Central America. Her fascination with wildlife and different cultures spurred travels from the South Pacific to the Himalayas, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, North Africa, Europe and South America.
Since 2012 she has directed microplastic research, initiating one of the first baseline data maps of microplastic pollution in global aquatic systems. Her plastic pollution research has taken her on expeditions to the Coral Triangle and Southern Oceans.
Why Travel with CERES Global
Our trips are not tours but rather journeys of exploration and learning that we share together.
They are real, lived experiences, where the people who travel with us immerse themselves in the culture and places we visit in a meaningful and mutually respectful way.
Our facilitators are not tour guides but facilitators or enablers.
They work with the group as a whole to achieve insight and understanding of the communities we visit. The facilitator’s role is to engage discussion within the group and with community members we are visiting to allow the sharing of ideas on social and environmental issues.
The people and places we visit are not tourist destinations or third party providers but rather real friends who we approach as true partner organisations.
All of our partners do exceptional work in the areas of sustainability, the environment, community development, social equity and education. We celebrate each other’s work through mutually beneficial exchange and two way learning.
The trips are open to people of any age or background wanting to travel with meaning and purpose, willing to open their hearts and minds to another culture and way of life.
Kind regards
Rose Samson
CERES Global Team
CERES Community Environment Park
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E rose.samson@ceres.org.au
W http://ceres.org.au/ceres-global/
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