Oceana joined a community-led cleanup in Hopkins this week, collecting 60 bags of garbage! 👏💪 A powerful reminder that protecting our reef starts with us. 💙 This weekend, let’s cut down on single-use plastics & keep trash where it belongs — not in our sea. 🌊

#ThrowbackThursday 🌊🇧🇿 Five years ago, #Belize made history by banning #gillnets! The Fisheries Resources (Gill Net Prohibition) Regulations 2020 have since protected marine habitats, promoted #sustainablefishing, and strengthened marine conservation in Belize.

Corozal Community College #Wavemakers teamed up with community members to build a compost bin & garden for the HelpAge Center in Corozal! We're inspired by our Wavemakers, creating positive change in their communities, one small action at a time. Become an Oceana Wavemaker: https://bit.ly/4er69A6

Can you imagine a Belize without a healthy, vibrant sea? Protecting what sustains us is everyone's responsibility, and your voice has the power to shape a future where we all thrive together. Join the movement at https://bit.ly/3vLutEL.

Happy #WorldJellyfishDay!🪼 These mesmerizing drifters remind us how incredible and delicate our ocean ecosystems are. 💙🌊 Dive deeper into the world of jellyfish and discover fascinating facts in our Marine Life Encyclopedia at belize.oceana.org

November marks the start of #ManateeAwarenessMonth, a time to highlight the importance of protecting one of Belize's most iconic marine species. #Manatees are vital to healthy coastal ecosystems but remain vulnerable. Let's work together to help them thrive.

🎃 Creepy. Scary. Terrifying… plastic pollution! 👻 They haunt our waters, choke marine life, and never truly die. 💀 But here's the twist, we created this monster, and we can stop it.🌊 Together, we can keep the real horror out of our seas.💙

Southern stingrays have a chilling trick to vanish from sight! 😱 When danger approaches, they use their wide fins to bury themselves in sand, disappearing into the seafloor like underwater ghosts, staying hidden from predators like hammerhead sharks!

“Protected” needs to mean something real. Our future depends on it. Read article here: belize.oceana.org/blog/protect...

Let’s cure your #MondayBlues with meaningful action… The #BelizeBarrierReef is vital to biodiversity, fisheries, and coastal protection. Its future depends on us. Add your voice and take action with Oceana: belize.oceana.org.

You're not the only one waiting on the weekend! Okay, maybe this brown pelican isn't waiting for the weekend, just his next meal. These coastal birds usually feed close to shore and spend much of their downtime resting on docks and beaches. 📷: Henry Brown Jr.

Lurking in reef crevices, the green moray eel looks slimy and supernatural. But that eerie green color? It's not its skin! 👀Although they appear green, moray eels have brownish or grey skin that mixes with a layer of yellow mucus, causing a green hue to appear.

Our sea is our life, our economy, our Belizean pride. 🌊 It's time to make ocean protection a constitutional right. Add your voice with @OceanaBelize — let Belizeans vote on the future of our sea. 🗳️💙 Visit https://bit.ly/3vLutEL to join the movement!

Orange Walk residents are proving the power of change is in our hands! 🌱With mangrove seedlings from SACD, community members joined the San Estevan Lions' Save the New River Canoe Race to plant hope-protecting rivers, fish, and livelihoods.

Every creature in our sea plays a vital role in keeping Belize's marine ecosystem alive and thriving. 🐢✨ Together, we can keep their home safe. Join Oceana in calling for stronger protections of our marine treasures. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3vLutEL

Over the past weekend, Shanda participated in the TIDE Fest in Punta Gorda, while Ryan was making waves at the Sarteneja Seafood Festival and at the Save the New River Canoe Race hosted by the San Estevan Lions Club. Thank you to our amazing partners for having us! 💙

Belize’s Indigenous Peoples have long been integral to our nation’s cultural heritage and economic growth. Today, we honour their resilience, spiritual strength, and enduring contributions to Belize’s multicultural identity and the preservation of natural ecosystems that sustain our economy.

🦁🐟👻 Spooky fact: The beautiful #lionfish is actually a nightmare to our reef. With no natural predators in the Caribbean, these invasive hunters devour native fish and upset the balance of our marine ecosystems. Keep our reef from becoming ghost towns: eat lionfish!

October 6th was celebrated as World Habitat Day! 🌍 We might have missed the date, but the message is timeless — Ocean abundance starts with healthy marine habitats, and what happens beneath the waves shapes life above them.

Oceana celebrated its incredible Wavemakers at the 2025 Annual General Meeting on Oct. 4! Over 300 ocean advocates from across Belize came together to honor those making waves for ocean protection. 💙 Read more: bit.ly/4nCx1km

Belize’s Queen Conch fishing season 2025-2026 officially opens today! 🐚 As the season kicks off, be mindful that an open season does not mean free for all. Remember to always fish responsibly! ⁣ Learn more about Belize’s fisheries regulations: www.fishrighteatright.com/consumers

Our sea, our say. 🇧🇿💙 Stand with Oceana to protect Belize’s marine heritage. Demand the constitutional right for Belizeans to decide our future. ✊ Add your voice: bit.ly/3yXQ0lh

This #WorldEnvironmentalHealthDay, join Oceana in safeguarding #Belize’s treasured places — because protecting our natural environment means protecting ourselves. 🌍👉 Learn more at: belize.oceana.org

For too long, decisions about our sea — and our future — have been made without us. #Belizeans, it’s time for change. 🗳️ Join Oceana in calling for the constitutional right to vote on issues that impact #Belize’s marine resources. 👉 Join the movement at belize.oceana.org

Belize@44: Stronger Together, Rising Forever 🇧🇿 Today we celebrate 44 years as an independent nation! ❤️🤍💙 Let us remember that our freedom is both a legacy & a responsibility — calling us to safeguard our people, our voices & our sea for generations to come.

🎉BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty has reached 60 ratifications — enough to enter into force! This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y

It’s #WorldMantaDay!! 🌊 #Didyouknow that these gentle giants play an important role in keeping marine ecosystems balanced? Swipe to find out how!

Patriotic colors aren’t just on our flag, they thrive beneath the waves [and in the air] too. ❤️🤍💙 Belize is home to incredible marine life that wears our red, white, and blue. Protecting them means protecting our identity. 🇧🇿🌊 Join Oceana in safeguarding what we love.

It’s the 227th Anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye! 🇧🇿 Today, we honour the courage and unity that protected our shores during that historic fight. May that same strength continue to inspire us to safeguard our precious Jewel. 📷: @jccuellar.bsky.social

🇧🇿💙 This September, let’s give our national pride purpose. True patriotism means protecting our history and our future. Oceana stands with Belizeans calling for transparency, accountability & constitutional rights that give all of us a voice. Join us 👉 belize.oceana.org

A win for Belize’s fisheries & marine life! 🌊🐬 Belize has earned a comparability finding from NOAA Fisheries, recognizing our fisheries as meeting U.S. standards. ✅ Exports to the U.S. continue beyond 2026 ✅ Commitment to best practices & marine protection @noaafisheries.bsky.social

Belize is ready to celebrate! 🎉 This September, let’s choose plastic-free options and keep our marine treasures safe & healthy.

Mark your calendars 🗓️ The National Coastal and Riverways Cleanup 2025 is only weeks away! We invite you join us and our partners on Saturday, September 27th, as we come together to keep our waters plastic and litter free!

#Backtoschool… of fish! 🐟 Fish thrive in schools for: 👀 Protection from predators 💨 Saving energy 🍴 Better food finding Just like them, we thrive when we work together to protect our ocean classroom. 🌊 Happy schooling!

It’s #InternationalWhaleSharkDay and we’re celebrating the biggest fish in the ocean! 🐋🦈 These majestic ocean dwellers can grow up to 65 feet long and weigh as much as 40 tons. 🤯 Here’s a fin-tastic #DYK for you: Each whale shark’s spot pattern is unique as a fingerprint.🫆

Oceana is proud to have been a part of so many summer programs this year. Next week, all students will be back in the classrooms. We wish all our Wavemakers and Belizean students a wonderful academic year ahead. Go make waves for our future! 📚✨

Oceana is advocating with Belizeans for our constitutional right to be consulted before decisions on offshore oil & gas. At Splash Dive Center’s Lionfish Derby artisan market, we connected with Belizeans to strengthen this call. 🌊✊🇧🇿 Your voice matters!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! 🗓️ We’re gearing up for our 2025 AGM! Sign up at the link below. ⬇️ belize.oceana.org/blog/mark-yo...

A thriving sea means healthy food on our tables and fair catches for our fishers. 🎣 🐟🌊 Oceana works to protect Belize’s invaluable marine resources and we want you to join us. Visit belize.oceana.org to learn more.

Meet the Whitelined Toadfish, Belize’s own underwater VIP! It’s only found hiding under corals between Carrie Bow Caye & South Water Caye (5–30 m deep). But with such a tiny population, it’s listed as Vulnerable. That’s why we need to protect its home. 🌊💙

Monday motivation: Belizeans committing to protecting what they love. New Wavemakers at Corozal Junior College 🌊& engaging talks with the Child Advisory Body on their right to be consulted before ANY offshore oil activity in Belize. 🚫🛢 Join the wave ➡️ belize.oceana.org

Stinky seaweed is piling up on Belize’s coast, and it’s not just here. Massive sargassum blooms are hitting shores from Mexico to the U.S. Scientists at Oceana are investigating the possible cause. Find out more: oceana.org/blog/sargass...

Our sea is our legacy 🌊 But right now, Belizeans don’t have a guaranteed say in protecting it. That needs to change.🗳️ Join the call: bit.ly/Constitution...

Today, we remember the courage, sacrifice, and resilience of those who came before us. Their fight for freedom laid the foundation we stand on. #EmancipationDay

We recently engaged with fishers from Corozal to discuss the importance of participatory governance and improved management of our marine resources. Sustainable fisheries resources management requires all of us, united and committed to working towards informed decision-making. 💡🤝

In honour of #WorldMangroveDay, we’re spotlighting a woman whose passion for conservation is deeply intertwined with these vital coastal forests. Check out our latest blog to read about her story: belize.oceana.org/blog/qa-meet...

Ryan repped Oceana at the Mesoamerican Exchange in Honduras, sharing on Belize’s fight against offshore oil, including Oceana’s call for a constitutional right to protect Belize’s marine resources from the dangers of offshore oil.

We teamed up with BTIA Dangriga to lead a beach cleanup and collected 39 bags of trash, mostly plastics! 🌊💪 Plastic pollution threatens our seas, fishers & future — but we can change that. Take action: bit.ly/4ohDvWT

#FunFact The Caribbean reef squid can “speak” with its skin. It uses colour pattern changes on various parts of the body, as well as different gestures, to communicate with other individuals. 🦑🗣️ 📷 Turneffe Flats/Turneffe Atoll Trust

#DYK Laughing Bird Caye, named after the laughing gull, is a stunning island in southern Belize with such abundant and diverse marine habitats. This led to the caye being declared a protected area in 1991 under the National Parks System Act.