Louis Bacon’s Moore Bahamas Foundation Grants $50,000 to BREEF

The Moore Bahamas Foundation, a branch of the Moore Charitable Foundation created by Louis Bacon, has donated $50,000 to The Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF).

BREEF is a charitable organisation which was founded in 1993 by Sir Nicholas Nuttall, and is designed to educate the people of the Bahamas about the dangers its marine life faces.

The funding will support research in the marine environment, and will sponsor the position of Research and Field Conservation Officer. This role is necessary for aiding students in finding research opportunities in the areas of the south west reef.

Casuarina McKinney-Lambert, the executive director of BREEF, said: “This is a really important position that will enable us to reach thousands more students every year. Until Moore Bahamas offered support, increased demand by teachers to take their students to west New Providence bays could not be met by current BREEF staff.”

The goal of The Moore Bahamas Foundation is to encourage the careful stewardship of the environment in the widely varied ecosystems in the Bahamas. The Foundation was formed as part of the Moore Charitable Foundation, and was inspired by founder Louis Bacon’s passion for environmental causes.

Louis Bacon is a champion of environmental protection and has advocated the conservation of natural resources in the United States for over two decades. His dedication to the natural world began in childhood, but it was the creation of the Moore Charitable foundation  (http://www.moorecharitable.org/index.php/about-us/louis-bacon/)  in 1992 that exponentially increased his input into the protection of the environment.

Other environmentally aware campaigns that Louis Bacon has supported with his Foundation are the conservation easement on Robins Island (in Long Island), which protects endangered shorebirds; the creation of a 50 acre protected zone on Tern Island by The Nature Conservancy, which guards certain bird species; the restoration of the Orton Plantation in North Carolina, which aims to augment the current population of egrets, herons and the rare Red-cockaded woodpecker; and various other efforts to protect the endangered environment.

In 2012, his Foundation supported the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Colorado Open Lands by donating two easements, which are the largest to have been received by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Colorado.