Louis Bacon has sponsored the acclaimed marine artist Guy
Harvey, a former lecturer turned artist, on a two day trip to Nassau in order
to boost a campaign to save the Nassau grouper.
Bacon’s charity, the Bahamas National Trust, will be hosting
Dr. Harvey's visit due to the sponsorship of Louis Bacon's Moore Bahamas
Foundation.
Ann Colley, Executive Director and Vice President of the
Moore Charitable Foundation and Moore Bahamas Foundation, said: “We are very
excited about working with the Bahamas National Trust in its ongoing campaign
to preserve the Nassau grouper,
"Bringing
together local environmental organizations, scientists and Guy Harvey focuses
attention on an issue that needs that kind of attention and creates a platform
for researchers and concerned citizens to come together to share
information."
Harvey will participate in workshops with more than a dozen
environmentalists and scientists and showing his documentary 'The Mystery of
the Grouper Moon' filmed in the Cayman Islands.
The Bahamas National Trust members will also attend the
event with the special guests to show support for the marine environment. These
include representatives from environmental organizations including BREEF, Save
The Bays, The Nature Conservancy, Young Marine Explorers, students from a
special marine program at CV Bethel and many others.
Dr. Eric Carey, BNT Executive Director, said: "The
study of how to rebuild Nassau grouper stock so that The Bahamas avoids the
plight of other countries and islands in the region whose stocks are so
depleted there is no grouper fishing allowed is a critical issue and one that
the Bahamas National Trust considers a top priority,
"We are grateful to the Moore Bahamas Foundation for
adding the Guy Harvey visit to the effort. Celebrity status never hurts and
when the celebrity has demonstrated sincere concern as Guy Harvey has, working
with the Grouper Moon Project based in Little Cayman, it's all that much more valuable."
Louis Bacon’s charity has been instrumental throughout the
campaign which now includes bringing the artist – whose artworks decorate
airport walls and the backs of millions of tee-shirts – to The Bahamas.
Bacon’s Moore Bahamas Foundation recently donated $50,000 to
BREEF, the Bahamas Reef Environmental Educational Foundation.
Conservationist Louis Bacon is a world-renowned environmentalist
and winner of this year’s National Audubon Society's highest award and, according
to Forbes magazine, one of the world's greenest billionaires in the world.
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