Spread The Word

My name is Darci Escandon. I'm the publicist for Jason Kelly's picture book, No Fish In My Dish. It shows in just 2,300 words and a dozen or so charming illustrations how we can solve the world's overfishing problem. It's oh-so-simple: for five days a week, don't eat fish. That's it. In the words of the book's main character, "The fish will have time to have babies and then, slowly the oceans will fill up again." You can read the book at its site. Here, I report on my adventure publicizing the book, getting the word out, saving the world's fish. Glad to have you!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

NEW FISH WELCOMES WILDCOAST

Jason and I would like to welcome the folks at Wildcoast, www.wildcoast.net . WiLDCOAST has partnered up with No Fish to help save the world, one fish at a time.

WiLDCOAST protects and preserves coastal ecosystems and wildlife in the Californias and Latin America by building grassroots support, conducting media campaigns and establishing protected areas.

Some of their programs are:

Clean Water Now
Clean Water Now! is the rally cry for thousands of coastal residents in south San Diego County and Tijuana who are demanding an end to the ocean pollution threatening their way of life. It is time for our elected officials and policy makers to support a real comprehensive solution to this pollution. Clean Water Now! is the rally cry for thousands of coastal residents in south San Diego County and Tijuana who are demanding an end to the ocean pollution threatening their way of life. It is time for our elected officials and policy makers to support a real comprehensive solution to this pollution.

Laguna San Ignacio
Laguna San Ignacio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is home to sea turtles, peregrine falcons, ospreys, and hundreds of thousands of migratory waterfowls and shorebirds, and is the last undeveloped gray whale birthing lagoon on the planet. Laguna San Ignacio is part of a 248-mile-coastline wetland complex that includes intertidal mudflats, salt flats, sandy beaches, and mangroves. This wetland complex is a global treasure and one of the world’s most biologically significant coastal sites.

Sea Turtles
Sea turtles have existed on Earth for more than 150 million years, meaning that they co-existed with dinosaurs. There are seven species of sea turtles, five of which spend long periods on Mexican coasts, especially on the coasts of the Baja California peninsula.
They come from places as far as Japan, southern Mexico and Hawaii. Sea turtles symbolize SURVIVAL, if they survive our destructive and ethnocentric civilization, all other species can survive as well.

Defiende el Mar
Defiende el Mar (Defend the Sea) is a movement in which all individuals, organizations and communities play a very important role. Everyone should be a part of it. We all need to have a basic knowledge of what is happening in our oceans, so we can take action and defend the sea

Check out thier blog at:
http://www.wildcoast.net/site/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=135


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