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NC Land and Water Fund honors Freeman Park

Grace Lanham, Staff Writer November 9, 2022
Conservation efforts are being made in the Pleasure Island area. The NC Land and Water Fund honored Freeman Park with a land grant of $4 million dollars this past month, and the money will go towards preserving wildlife and the upkeep of the Carolina Beach sanctuary.
From left to right: Wells Struble, Kelly Struble, and Rocco Quaranto III -- the three founders of Tama Cafe. Each holds one of the three different flavors of sparkling green tea, partial proceeds of which are being donated to help preserve Masonboro Island.

Local alumni help conserve Masonboro Island through Tama Cafe

Jonny Berrios, Staff Writer February 8, 2019

Tama Cafe (formerly Tama Tea) is teaming up with Masonboro.org in order to conserve Masonboro Island, a barrier island located to the southeast of Wilmington. Masonboro.org’s website states that its...

Sara Bayles, 32, collects garbage that includes discarded plastic toys as part of a 365-day project of documenting trash shes gathered in Santa Monica, California, September 2, 2010. She photographs some of the debris and after a 20-minute period she weighs the trash. She blogs about her activities on her post The Daily Ocean along with posting her photographs. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Plastic Ocean Project shows campus eye-opening film on ocean conservation

Megan Romanchok | Contributing Writer January 31, 2017

Sara Bayles, 32, collects garbage that includes discarded plastic toys as part of a 365-day project of documenting trash she's gathered in Santa Monica, California, September 2, 2010. She photographs some of the debris and after a 20-minute period she weighs the trash. She blogs about her activities on her post The Daily Ocean along with posting her photographs. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

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