Global Eco Adventures to celebrate Earth Day with gala
April 8, 2016
Internationally acclaimed zoologist Jim Fowler among event’s special guests
CAMDEN, SC – Global Eco Adventures (GEA) will celebrate Earth Day 2016 with a lineup of special guests – including wildlife expert Jim Fowler, who for years hosted the Emmy-award winning television program, MUTUAL OF OMAHA’S WILD KINGDOM – at the first annual Global Eco Gala to be held in Camden at the Historic Robert Mills Courthouse on Apr. 22 at 7:00 p.m.
In addition to Fowler, Dr. Diego Quiroga will deliver the keynote address. Quiroga is a former Olympian the vice-pres. of Research at Universidad San Francisco de Quito and co-director of the Galapagos Academic Institute of Arts and Sciences. Other guests will include Jason Waskey, Deputy Director for National Strategy of the Climate Action Campaign.
“This will be our first annual gala,” says GEA’s founder and president Tom Mullikin, an environmental expert and global expedition leader. “We’ve paired our celebration with Earth Day because, through Global Eco Adventures, we are truly taking our environmental research and discussion worldwide.”
GEA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established to create awareness of global environmental sustainability through education and dissemination of information about protected areas that are considered natural phenomena with exceptional aesthetic importance and fragile ecosystems for future generations. But it’s not simply environmentalists, the variously involved stakeholders, business leaders and policymakers that Mullikin seeks to inform. “GEA is also committed to educating young people and informing the broader general public about the environment and protecting our precious natural resources,” he says.
Through GEA, Mullikin and his team have led fact-finding missions to every continent on Earth, exploring and gathering information about the world’s most fragile ecosystems. Mullikin (along with son Thomas Jr.) has summited many of the highest mountains on Earth and logged SCUBA dives in every ocean in an effort to research, make information widely available, and create meaningful discussion about the environment. “This has allowed me to move beyond the hysteria and focus on substantive issues and offer market-based economically sustainable solutions,” says Mullikin.
The GEA Gala will be held on Earth Day; exactly 46 years after the first Earth Day (in 1970) which achieved “a rare political alignment” between both Democrats and Republicans. That first Earth Day led to the establishment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by then-Pres. Richard Nixon.
Among the sponsors of the 2016 Global Eco Gala are Kohn-Spring Group, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management; BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina; Sheriff (Kershaw County) Jim Matthews and Mrs. Heather Matthews; NBSC, First Palmetto Bank; Savage, Royall & Sheheen, LLP; Fenwick Farms; Kershaw Health; Nexsen Pruet; The UPS Store; the Special Forces Foundation; Target Distribution Center; The Backpacker Quality Gear; the Mullikin Law Firm and others.
The 2016 Global Eco Gala will be held Friday evening, Apr. 22, at 7:00 p.m. at the historic Robert Mills Courthouse, 607 Broad St., Camden. Tickets are $50 per person. For more information, visit https://geagala2016.splashthat.com/
