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In a crisis where the world feels like it stops moving, the ecosystems around us are still blooming, ever-changing, and alive. In times like these, our need for nature becomes even more clear, as we see evidence of this in the abundance of visitors to our parks and reservations. At the same time, that abundance puts the nature we need under stress. At EwA, it is our mission to reconcile our ecological selves with the will and desire to protect the natural world of which we are a part.
Habitat degradation and the massive loss of biological diversity worldwide have contributed to eliminating the natural buffer between dangerous new viruses such as COVID-19 and human society. The pandemic itself has made our relationship with the environment even more precarious. Simultaneously, we are at risk of seeing some of the most dramatic environmental regulatory rollbacks of our lifetime. Conservation work still sees only a tiny sliver of all charitable donations, and it’s important to push back against that trend. Now, more than ever, it is necessary to financially support grassroots work like ours.
In bringing ecological systems knowledge and science to the core of our community, EwA reconnects the people with their immediate environment so that they can know and understand it. With this deep knowledge, we gain the power to make educated decisions, inspire change, and inform environmental policy. We, and our community of citizen scientists, have been hard at work in the field in the past few months, adjusting to changing conditions on the fly and contributing critical data to local and global databases. Continuing to observe and build knowledge of our ecosystems, through thick and thin, is what we have done every day at EwA since 2017.
We do this work because it has to be done, and all of us make sacrifices in the pursuit of a mission we believe in. Your contribution helps EwA in many ways, from providing tools and resources to our citizen scientists to supporting our web infrastructure and online content. By donating to EwA today, you can help make sure this work has staying power, and a lasting effect.
Thanks for your support!
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