Protect our Oceans.
Secure our Future.

Join us in increasing charitable funding for

ocean conservation from less than 1% to 10%.
Together, we can turn the tide for a sustainable future.

School of Fish

Oceans in Crisis

Our oceans are in crisis. Their vital role in sustaining life on Earth is at risk, due to unprecedented threats from pollution, overfishing, and climate change.

Scientists now know that small changes at sea can create significant shifts in our planet's climate. Despite this, ocean conservation receives less than 1% of global charitable funding. That needs to change. Immediately.

Our mission is to create a unified approach to ocean conservation, pooling global charitable contributions in a central fund and delivering unrestricted grants to a selected group of the world's most impactful ocean organisations: our Ocean Recovery Network. This way, we are targeting the most critical and most harmful issues, raising awareness and supporting science to accelerate ocean recovery and encourage sustainable use of marine resources.

Sea bed in Arran MPA

Why the Ocean?

Our very existence depends not on the land, but on the oceans. They regulate our climate, generate most of the oxygen we breathe and are home to 80% of life on Earth. The more we learn about them, the more important they become.

Not only do they produce more oxygen than the world's forests and jungles combined, they are also pivotal in moderating climate change, absorbing about 93% of the Earth's excess heat since the 1960s. Without them, temperatures would be 30 degrees higher.

Despite this, oceans are not in the spotlight. Their important role is being ignored, and we do this at our peril. If the planet is to have a secure future, they need to be placed front and centre in the world's climate change strategies.

Organisations and initiatives we have supported

The conservation programme for the Antillean Manatee in the protected area of Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge (CSWR) in Honduras. This programme is implemented hand in hand with a local partner, Funación Cuero y Salado (FUCSA), and the collaboration of several local stakeholders, including local community groups, academia, government agencies, and private enterprises. Key initiatives included manatee surveys, developing a conservation strategy, and launching a communication campaign to raise local awareness.

Community-led conservation projects that have helped to restore the marine environment in the Kenyan island design to create sustainable and long-lasting change.

Amongst other results, the foundation efforts protected and restored of over 300+ hectares of mangrove forests, created sustainable livelihoods through ongoing training and providing equipment in beekeeping and crab farming for over 150 people, collected over 30 tonnes of plastic from the environment to be recycled by small-scale recyclers in Lamu, educated over 150 fishermen on the practice of sustainable fishing and built the governing capacity of 4 local beach management units.

improve the achievement of the coral restoration project located in the Maldives. To scale up the project by planting more frames and thus more corals, but also to engage more locals both in the direct action of planting corals, in learning the importance of a healthy reef around their home island, and create an initial small-scale revenue.

A 101-day scientific expedition in Antarctica, one of the most extreme marine environments. This included the deployment of dissolved ocean sensors on an Autosub Long Range, a new type of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle often better known as Boaty McBoatface! Dissolved oxygen is a critical measurement in understanding the health of the ocean and the measurements taken as part of this project will enable us to learn more about what is causing ice loss from the glacier and better predict how its deterioration could contribute to global sea level rise.

Strengthen the public education program to increase awareness about SDG14 and the critical importance of protecting the Coral Triangle to schoolchildren, university students, and the wider public, through interactive learning exhibits and at CTC's Center for Marine Conservation in Sanur, Bali. Funds from 10% for the Ocean were used to develop a Mangrove Wave Tanka to show how protecting mangrove ecosystems help coastal communities adapt to climate change by serving as a buffer against large storms caused by rising ocean temperatures. The interactive exbibit also illustrated how mangroves help mitigate climate change by storing large amounts of carbon in their roots. From January 2022 to June 2023, the Centre has received over 6,000 visitors.

Running the Iceland field seasons, particularly focusing on the Scars from Above project, which uses drones to assess the prevalence and impact of entanglement in fishing gear for humpback whales, using scarring patterns. The major result arising from the funding from 10% for the Ocean is the collection of data for the Scars from Above research project. In 2022, they collected aerial images from 91 whales in North Iceland and work is currently underway to assess body condition and entanglement scars using these images.

Campaigning and advocacy endeavours at the national, regional, and global levels to seek a) An end to bottom trawling on seamounts, and other vulnerable marine ecosystems in the deep sea on the high seas, as well as within national waters in the EU, and b) The adoption of a moratorium on deep-sea mining by the International Seabed Authority.

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