Big day this past Monday. Along with volunteers and MOI staff, we began constructing the structures for the coral nurseries. PVC pipes, iron bars, an electric grinder, saw blades, safety goggles, concrete, duct tape, and some canola oil were all in play. All integral components for getting our partnership’s nurseries

Laughs, soil-covered hands, and newly rooted trees.  I will call this one a win for ELI Africa.  On February 16th, twenty of our Roche Bois and Pamplemousses students clambered off a bus onto the simmering asphalt of Sookha Road in Plaine des Roches, as did a photographer for L’Express, the

The old, mangy mutt walked up from the beach.  Pausing a few feet in front of my bench, he looked up at me with a watery gazed look as he eyed the slice of pizza in my hand. Turning away, he dug at the ground with a few strokes of

It’s not too often that I’m waking up at 3:30 AM to watch the Super Bowl with Vedant, the US Embassy Political and Technology Officers and nuclear waste specialists, but it was certainly an exciting way to watch one helluva entertaining game in Mauritius, and one that for once actually

The big day is nearly here. After over three months of site surveys, fundraising meetings, and marching my boots through fertilizer, we finally secured the initial 500 seedlings for the ELI Forest and brought them to Plaine des Roches. If all goes as planned, planting the forest will start next

Greetings, all. Hope you have each had a happy and healthy start to 2013. Things have been busy for me, but in the best ways possible. In the next week or so, we will begin planting our endemic seedlings in Plaine des Roches, and the coral farming project is moving

So 2012 has come to a close, and in advance of what had been the pending apocalypse (or because we wanted our kids to have some fun while learning about the environment, one or the other), we decided to take all of ELI Africa’s students from our Roche Bois and

Greetings ELI friends and family. It was a busy November for me, and I do apologize for my irregular appearances on the Blog. “What’s been keeping you so busy Sam?” Well it’s funny you should ask, because I was planning to write about it. And the answer is our coral