Berkley Conservation Institute

Conservation Implementation Partnerships

Outdoor Media Contacts

Berkley Conservation Institute will:

• Work regularly with outdoor media contacts from ESPN/BASS, TRCP and other conservation partners to inform individual freelance writers about important conservation issues.
• Use our membership in the TRCP as a way to add our voice to the sportsmen’s community voice on conservation issues.

Conservation Advocacy

Berkley Conservation Institute will:

• Partner with organizations such as the American Sportfishing Assn., the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and the National Fisheries Network (FishNet) to advance conservation policy advocacy.
• Work with partners at the state, region and national levels to affect funding and policy on sustainable natural resource management.
• Establish a website for the BCI that includes key conservation partner links and action updates on breaking conservation issues.

BCI continues to partner with regional and local conservation organizations and projects. An example is the Fish Smart project of the American Sportfishing Association (ASA) and the University of Maryland. This project is designed to develop gear that advances survival of sport released fish in catch and release fisheries and to improve communications with anglers to adopt these new gear approaches. BCI continues to support the Berkley Award for Conservation, given annually to the BASS Federation Nation chapter or state organization outstanding conservation project each year.