Robert D Sluka, Ph.D. leads A Rocha’s Marine Conservation Programme. He is a curious explorer, applying hopeful, optimistic and holistic solutions to all that is ailing our oceans and the communities that rely on them. Robert’s research focuses on marine biodiversity conservation, plastic pollution, and fisheries, particularly marine protected areas. The ultimate goal is to glorify God through oceans and communities being transformed using holistic marine conservation.
My first visit to the Florida Keys happened 40 years ago. Growing up far from the ocean, I nonetheless decided I wanted to SCUBA dive. Passing my course in a […]
A personal view of the collaboration between finance and nature Peter Harris A Rocha co-founder Key ideas Modern environmentalism emerged partly in opposition to industrial capitalism, highlighting how profit-driven business […]
Cycling along a stream that runs through the parkland and forest of Milton Keynes, the UK city where I live, I came to an abrupt halt. Something wonderous had caught […]
Sylvia Muia For a long time, being a Christian was more of an identity chosen for me by default, having been born into a Christian family. You start with Sunday […]
“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.” Isaiah 9:2 These words from the prophet […]
Through this year, we’ve been looking at the natural world from micro to macro, from tiny organisms to global ecosystems. Migration is a theme that links both. Butterflies cross continents; […]
In 1986 my mother, Miranda Harris, was tasked with furnishing the first A Rocha field study centre, Cruzinha. She spent a huge proportion on one item, a beautiful, dark chestnut […]
That’s the question A Rocha Kenya is wrestling with in the Dakatcha Woodlands on the coast of Kenya. That’s the question facing the world as our planet undergoes a global […]
By Stuart Blanch, Chair, A Rocha Australia. I love trees. Standing under a tree, I am in awe, still, observing: trunk towering, branches arching, leaves filtering, birds calling, cicadas buzzing. Reaching upwards […]
By Noah Guthrie Beside the coiling waters of Bull Creek, three A Rocha USA interns waded through thorns, waging war against the Glossy Privet. As we heaved our shoulders through […]
