Help Mary Save Coral!
Mary Hagedorn is coral’s guardian angel. She’s a Smithsonian scientist heading up an effort to cryopreserve coral reef genetic data, so that if reefs are ever wiped out (and they look to be headed that way quick), we’ll be able to regrow them. Reefs are quite literally the lungs of the planet; crucial for filtering the air that we breathe and keeping the oceans stocked with life. Without them we would be done for. Yet, astoundingly, this woman is running her operation on personal credit card debt because the Smithsonian can’t properly fund her.
Check out this website I wrote to help raise money for her. These are the kind of people who change the world, and it’s those tiny PayPal donations that are what keep them going, for all of us.