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Dr. Philip Kramer, the director of The Nature Conservancy’s Caribbean program, first fell in love with the region from under the sea. Originally from South Carolina and with degrees in biology and marine geology, he has completed more than 2,500 dives all across the Caribbean, exploring the incredible biodiversity found in an area comprised of some 7,000 islands, cays and reefs. “I still don’t really have a favorite island,” he says. “As a geologist, I’ve always approached the region as a whole.”
Approaching the Caribbean as a whole is also central to The Nature Conservancy’s efforts to protecting and conserving its diverse ecosystems for future generations. The perils facing the region are great: overfishing, thoughtless coastal development, and climate change are just three of the top threats Kramer outlined during a recent conversation. Besides building a wide-reaching commitment to sustainable environmental change among the Caribbean’s governments, he and his team are also passionate about educating visitors to the region.
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