在W&M启动2025年环境年之际，综合保护研究所成为焦点
At the 2025 Charter Day ceremony on February 7, William & 玛丽 will launch the Year of the Environment. Charter Day marks the founding of Willam & 玛丽 and looks forward to the future. It is a time of reflection on the past and commitment to building a strong future for the university and the W&M community, and for shaping resilient cultural, social, and natural environments.
The Year of the Environment highlights W&M’s commitment to campus sustainability, climate resiliency, healthy ecosystems and healthy communities. The observance brings the estuarian environment of the W&M campus into focus and highlights W&M’s biodiversity and environmental research and impact on healthy ecosystems locally, regionally, and around the world.
This yearlong observance demonstrates W&M’s support for and alignment with the IIC vision of “a future in which people and nature are inextricably, equitably, and justly connected, and the natural environment thrives for current and future generations”. This vision comes alive in 2025 as W&M spotlights environmental initiatives, including many that the IIC leads or collaborates on, and hosts special events convening around environmental themes.
The IIC Conservation Speakers Series bridges the 2024 Year of the Arts and the 2025 the Year of the Environment with its 2024-25 theme “Creativity and Innovation in Conservation”. In March we welcome artist and author Katie Holten, and on Earth Day in collaboration with Vital Impacts, we host underwater photographer, whale whisperer, and National Geographic Fellow Brian Skerry. Join us in April for our annual Earth Week launch party and Conservation Research Program preview of 2025 applied research that W&M students will conduct with IIC conservation partners around the world.
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At the IIC we celebrate biodiversity every day, recognizing the urgent need and many opportunities we have to protect it. We look forward to celebrating the W&M Year of the Environment with you and to fostering a deep, lasting commitment to preserving the natural world for generations to come.
