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Finally, the plight of Black-footed ferret is building awareness by the United States Postal Service. The BFF is North America’s most endangered mammal with only 300 remaining in the wild. Ferret’s live in prairie dog towns across the Northern Great Plains.
Proud to support World Wildlife Funds efforts to restore Black-footed ferret populations.
May 20
Donee partner, The Advocates for Human Rights, highlighted their Women's Progam and International Justice Program during two separate Spring house parties this week. Huge thank you to Alena Levina for sharing on the ground work by brave women activists in her home country of Belarus and Nathaniel Berhardt for fighting for LBGTQ+ peoples in his home country of Ethiopia where the government has consistently stated, such individuals do not exist. The Advocates was able to allow Mr. Berhardt to provide an oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights session. The Advocates have been improving Human Rights throughout the world for 40 years. #advocatesforhumanrights #humanrights
Apr 27
Thanks to the Torrey Pines State Park docents for sharing their knowledge of this beautiful area with the WWF national council members. The Torrey pine is the rarest pine in the world, growing only in this small area of Southern California.
Apr 19
Spent the morning touring Scripps campus. Learned how waves, wind and temperatures are simulated. Also discussed the positive news for coral reefs being tracked in the 100 island challenge. Lastly spent time on the pier where 100+ years of daily tracking of water temperatures, salinity, number of micro- organisms has contributed to our understanding of the oceans. #wwf #scripps #100islandchallenge
Apr 19
Oceans are the focus for this Spring’s World Wildlife Fund (WWF) National Council meeting. #WWF #scripps
Apr 18
Thanks to Recharge America, Minnesota State University, Mankato, the many presenters and participants for an interesting and informative event, highlighting an equitable path to transportation electrification.
Mar 22
Day 3, UN Committee on Human Rights highlights: the special rapporteur addressed the human rights of women and children as both victims and survivors of terrorism. Toured the UN grounds, attached a few favorite sculptures.
Mar 15
The Advocates for Human Rights board chair, Karen Evans provided an oral statement at the Special Rapporteur’s counterterrorism session.
Mar 14
First day of human rights advocacy. The Advocates for Human Rights dozen staff and volunteers had a full day. An oral statement was given, multiple delegate meetings were held and questions arose in a country Q and A review which were directly taken from an earlier statement. All exciting. Human Rights improvements in real time.
Mar 13
Tomorrow human rights advocacy begins. Small but might force from Botswana, Colombia, Montenegro, and the USA. #humanrights #unitednations
Mar 12
Join Will Steger in demanding permanent protection for our beloved Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Mar 8
Join grantee Off The Blue Couch for emergency preparedness this evening, Monday, January 16, 2023.
Jan 16
A favorite day, celebrating with University of Minnesota Olseth scholars. 150 amazing students since 2014. Each one is leaving a positive mark on the University, the state and their local communities.
Pic #1 Event emcee, junior Rachel Hencke.
Photo 2 Freshman - Senior scholars.
Pic #3 Graduating seniors.
Nov 10
Honored to have spent Saturday with Arctic explorer Will Steger at the zero carbon Steger Center which is near completion.
The center has taken 30 years to build, utilizing master trades persons who train younger generations in a skill/ craft, whether it be electricians, glass artisans, stone masons, or carpenters.
The mission of the center is to sustain Will Steger’s legacy in an innovative wilderness setting for leadership, education and training to boldly address our climate crisis.
Should you have interest in learning more, please email me at Cheryl@OlsethFamilyFoundation.org
Oct 31
View from our room. Excited to visit Will Steger’s environmental center tomorrow. The center’s mission is to boldly address the climate crisis through leadership and educational training in an innovative and sustainable wilderness setting.
Oct 29
Audua and Michael Pugh have created a healing, safe space for North Minneapolis residents who have experienced a wide variety of trauma often resulting from decades of systemic racism. They use mediation, healing sound energy, talking circle, chess and even bingo.
Calming the mind, becoming a part of a caring community aides in healing the heart and mind.
Proud to support their efforts at #offthebluecouch #rustyandthecrew
Oct 21
Huge thanks to, two lifelong conservationists, dear friends and fellow WWF National Council colleague, this bright and beautiful jaguar will now be a permanent fixture in the WWF lobby.
Purchased through Jaguars on Parade at this years UN conservation conference in NYC.
Oct 20
This year's WWF / Fuller Symposium explored OECMs. What is an OECM? It is an “other effective area based conservation measures” which offers an alternative to traditional protected areas.
OCEM's are a more equitable form of conservation, that can work for groups previously disenfranchised or sometimes at odds with traditional conservation, such as some Indigenous groups and local communities as well as sustainable agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors.
The primary feature of the OECM is it must effectively contribute toward biodiversity, something currently not required of a traditional protected area such as a National Park.
OECMs will be imperative to reach the target goal of preserving 30% of the landmass and oceans by 2030.
The panel on slide two, included biologists from as far away as Fiji and Indonesia and as near as Montana.
#wwffuller
Oct 20
Weather looks perfect to test drive an electric vehicle (EV) this Saturday, October 15th. The majority of EV owners consistently say they will never purchase another combustion engine.
#electricvehiclesarethefuture #electricvehicles #northfieldmn #rechargeamerica #rechargemn
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