Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/12/2016
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location
New England Aquarium
After a near-drowning accident in which she was temporarily paralyzed, environmental activist Liz Cunningham crisscrossed the globe in an effort to understand the threats to our endangered oceans. She tells the story of her journey in an intimate new book, Ocean Country: One Woman’s Voyage from Peril to Hope in Her Quest to Save the Seas, involving unexpected encounters with conservationists, fishermen, sea nomads, and scientists in the Mediterranean, Sulawesi, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Papua, New Guinea.
Cunningham will read excerpts from her book and sign copies afterward. Twenty-one percent of royalties from the book are being donated to the New England Aquarium’s Marine Conservation Action Fund (MCAF) which funds small-scale conservation projects around the world – from protecting manta rays in Peru to saving sea turtles in Florida and Costa Rica. MCAF Manager Elizabeth Stephenson will discuss various successes of the long-standing micro-funding program.
Pre-registration is encouraged at: http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=106429&view=Detail
