"Funded by 11th Hour Racing, Healthy Soils, Healthy Seas RI is a two-year project that aims to tackle ocean pollution at its root: on land. The initiative brings together existing composting efforts across the state in an integrated waste management model that diverts food waste from the landfill...."
Launch date: December 7, 2018.
From the launch announcement, November 28, 2018.
Providence is one of several cities in the US Fish and Wildlife Service Migratory Bird program, the Urban Bird Treaty.
"The New England Fishery Management Council, one of eight regional councils established by federal legislation in 1976, is charged with conserving and managing fishery resources from three to 200 miles off the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut"
- From the website, July 20,2018
The council also connects the fishing industry with information about the development of offshore wind projects.
"The South Kingstown Land Trust, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was founded as a private trust in 1983, and later incorporated as a private nonprofit corporation in 1999, with the mission of conserving the natural resources of the Town of South Kingstown through preservation and stewardship of open space."
- From the website, July 11, 2018
This is a program of the New England Wild Flower Society, a collaboration of professional and amateur botanists, state agencies, and conservation organizations in each New England State. Their goal is to conserve the region's endangered native flora.
Training for the field season is in February or March each year.
"Roger Williams Park Zoo strives to engage guests in an extraordinary and unique educational experience to improve their understanding of and appreciation for the natural world. We contribute significantly to the conservation of our earth’s animals, plants and other natural resources by challenging ourselves and our audience to act as responsible environmental stewards.
"Roger Williams Park Zoo is supported and managed by the Rhode Island Zoological Society and is owned by the City of Providence."
- From the website, July 8, 2018
