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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘All creatures look to you to give them their food at the proper time. When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they […]
By Robert Sluka When guests visit us in Titusville, Florida we often suggest a “good news” trip to Orlando Wetlands Park. Created to mitigate errors in the past, it filters […]
How one farmer’s dogged persistence and a resolute faith in God has successfully brought back forest to over 6 million hectares in West Africa and counts 240 million trees to […]
How would it look to live in close relationship to the land? Ronia and I are standing at the vegetable washing station on farm in Austria. Boxes full of freshly […]
When I was a young lad, there was a mission society which had a young adult’s newsletter which I read avidly. The title of one article has stuck with me […]
By Betty Cynthia Baidoo ‘By faith we see the glory; to which thou shalt restore us, the cross despise for that high prize which thou hast set before us.’ ― […]
