Save the Fort Worth Prairie Park
The Fort Worth Prairie Park is older than the birth of civilization itself, yet fresh and alive as if born this morning. Our human ancestors grew up nourished by the fruits and beauty of this land. With your help, we will save what’s left for all future life.
This biodiverse land is a living remnant of 10,000 year old native Fort Worth Prairie, has never been plowed, and is of exceptional quality. It will benefit from some clearing of brush overgrowth and, in a few places, invasive species removal to return it to its highest quality native Texas prairie wildlife habitat.
Shark Therapy™
Great Plains Restoration Council is proud to announce expansion of our Ecological Health programming with Shark Therapy™, a new initiative in partnership with Shark Addicts Diving, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, and Gangstas to Growers.
Based out of South Florida, and linked with Atlanta, people who have had some struggles in life, including veterans, front-line health workers, formerly incarcerated folks, people with mental and physical health challenges, and more, dive with sharks and work to protect them while improving their own mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health at the same time.
Details coming soon. The prairie and the ocean are two halves of a whole.
100 million sharks are killed each year, with 73 million of them for the shark fin trade alone. By taking care of others, we take care of ourselves.
Remember to ask your Senator to support S.877 – Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2019 which Senator Cory Booker introduced and is getting bi-partisan support.
Thank you!
Some basic info:
- Fins from up to 73 million sharks wind up in the fin trade every year!
- Sharks are an apex species; therefore they have a huge influence over the health of ocean ecosystems,
- Finning is illegal in the US (since 2000); so why would we support the trade of fins?
- More and more people around the world are starting to say no to the shark fin trade. Many local activists in China and Hong Kong have launched successful public awareness campaigns to reduce the demand for shark fins. In fact, China has officially banned shark fin soup at official state events, and multiple Chinese airlines have banned the shipment of fins.
- Because some sharks reach sexual maturity late, grow slowly, and produce few offspring, they are particularly vulnerable to any added mortalities, such as those imposed by unsustainable fishing. Some open-ocean sharks take more than a decade to mature to an age at which they can reproduce and will only have one or two pups as infrequently as every three year.
- We don’t know enough about shark populations, about 64% of stocks don’t have enough data,
- But we do know that some are threatened populations, and some are even endangered,
- A lot of livelihoods are made on healthy oceans
- Healthy oceans need sharks, .Americans need healthy oceans,
We need a #FinBanNow
- Please contact all your senators are ask them to support S. 877.
- On the House side, H. R. 737 has huge bipartisan support with over 220 reps fro across the US.
Here are some helpful links – you may even want to create your own talking points from:
“Texas Southern University Hosts a Plenary Offering GPRC’s Restoration Not Incarceration™ to the Public for Adoption”
In Houston, Texas Southern University recently hosted a marquee event that delivered to the country a baseline explanation and exploration of GPRC’s Restoration Not Incarceration™ program. As a starting point, the full video of the event is now available on the Internet as a permanent open-source body of work for entities wishing to adopt this program in their own municipality.
Great Plains Restoration Council has launched a $2.1 million #WeRestore campaign to complete these legacy goals and wrap up nearly 20 years of non-profit work:
- Help Southern Plains Land Trust (SPLT) create a stunningly beautiful new Refuge for buffalo, prairie dogs, pronghorn antelope and more that is larger than Manhattan on the shortgrass prairie of southeastern Colorado, about 200 miles from Amarillo, TX. 50% of funds raised after expenses will go directly toward SPLT’s purchase of this new preserve.
- Gift our program Restoration Not Incarceration™ to others across the country as an Open Source initiative and pay the work wages for 2,500 work days in Ecological Health for people formerly or currently entangled with the criminal justice system.
- Provide $100,000 in work scholarship funds for Plains Indian people working in ecological restoration.
- Complete the Fort Worth Prairie Park, an urban wildland prairie on the backdoor of 7 million people, as a national epicenter for Ecological Health.
- Support the public education and advocacy work of Great Plains Restoration Council.
- Support GPRC’s literary fund.
Fear & Loving: Where Sea Level Meets the Deep
— a non-profit literary project of Great Plains Restoration Council
Great Plains Restoration Council
is building the framework and infrastructure for a national expansion of its Ecological Health movement, especially Restoration Not Incarceration™, with a particular focus on the prairie and the ocean.
Together, we will build Ecological Health so that generations of people take care of their own lives through restoring and protecting the Earth.