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Grant Manager @BlueActionFund
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Sophie Thayne
Blue Action Fund
3 days ago
Meanwhile in Namibia 🇳🇦: NIMPA+ Showcased at German–Namibian Government Talks in Lüderitz...
ogy.de/fgdj
@oceanthayne.bsky.social
@bmz.de
@rukodzi.bsky.social
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Not every day one of our
@blueactionfund.org
projects features on the agenda of 🇩🇪🇳🇦 Government Negotiations! Wishing the Namibia Nature Foundation team every success as they showcase the
#NIMPA+
project - a great example of collaboration for people and ocean conservation 🌊🐧🛶
#OceanOptimism
7 days ago
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Happy Friday News 🥳 🇳🇦NAMCOB’s very 1st rehabilitation patient Apie has returned to the wild after 412 days. African penguins are officially listed as Critically Endangered - making NAMCOB’s work even more important ➡️
namcob.org.na/news/namcobs...
Funded by
@blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism
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NAMCOB’s First Rehabilitation Patient Returns to the Wild | NAMCOB
https://namcob.org.na/news/namcobs-first-rehabilitation-patient-returns-to-the-wild
11 days ago
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🌊Exciting update from the 🇳🇦NIMPA+ project, funded by
@blueactionfund.org
: The NIMPA Data Mgt Portal is operational!
@saerifi.bsky.social
helped develop it bringing together all available info on MPA NIMPA. The portal will serve as decision-making tool. Trainings are underway. 👇
NIMPA.sari.org
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11 days ago
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How lasting is impact after a project ends?
@blueactionfund.org
is among few donors conducting ex post surveys - revisiting completed projects to measure long-term outcomes for people and nature. Learning of the past to strengthen future marine conservation - cherished. 💙
#OceanOptimism
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15 days ago
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Sophie Thayne
Angelo Villagomez
27 days ago
Fisheries: Creating marine protected areas only displaces fisheries and does not benefit the ocean Costello: No they don't and yes they do
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries | PNAS
Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2412543121
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Meanwhile in Cabo Verde 🇨🇻… Good to see project partner
@projectovito.bsky.social
taking one important step towards getting the wondrous waters around 🇨🇻 more protected
@blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism
#30x30
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about 1 month ago
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Sophie Thayne
Blue Action Fund
about 1 month ago
Meanwhile in Namibia 🇳🇦 ... How Murals Are Bringing Ocean Conservation to Life in Lüderitz
nnf.org.na/how-murals-a...
@oceanthayne.bsky.social
@oceanweigand.bsky.social
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Fair enough-virtual workshops are never the same as being on the ground. But with the political situation preventing our
@blueactionfund.org
trip, teams
@blueventures.bsky.social
@akf-global.bsky.social
& OSDRM in MD made the best of it and pushed through. Huge thanks
@oceancecilia.bsky.social
🙏
about 1 month ago
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Sophie Thayne
🌊Markus Knigge🐟
about 1 month ago
Celebrating grant portfolio of our sister fund
@legacylandscapes.bsky.social
with representatives of all supported protected sites. Amazing 🥳🎉. 👏🏼
@bmz.de
for initiating this crucial
#30by30
@unbiodiversity.bsky.social
financing tool.
@astridschomaker.bsky.social
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Sophie Thayne
Blue Action Fund
about 1 month ago
Meanwhile in 🇳🇦 Namibia...
#NIMPAplus
@oceanthayne.bsky.social
@rukodzi.bsky.social
Ocean Literacy Toolkit ➡️
ogy.de/9y1w
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Great opportunity, great team 🌊✨
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about 2 months ago
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Sophie Thayne
🌊Markus Knigge🐟
about 2 months ago
7th annual Earth Partner Prize open for submissions... 🧑🎨 artists between 14 and 30 years? 🎞️🗽🎨 work that comments on ecological crisis? 💶 8 finalists receive prizes of $10K, $5K or $2K.
earthpartner.com/earth-partne...
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Earth Partner Prize - Earth Partner
https://earthpartner.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/EPP-Globe-1x1_final.mp4 APPLY HERE The 7th annual Earth Partner Prize (formerly #CreateCOP) is now open for submissions! We invite artists of all na...
https://earthpartner.com/earth-partner-prize/
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Seems like the right time to pay Madagascar a visit! Looking forward to upcoming trip with dear
@blueactionfund.org
colleague
@oceancecilia.bsky.social
, team of
@blueventures.bsky.social
&
@akf-global.bsky.social
➡️Fact sheet:
www.blueactionfund.org/wp-content/u...
#BlueActionProjectVisit
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2 months ago
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Meanwhile in Madagascar: 1,5m ha of new MPA now designated with additional 0.8m ha under progress. 🌊🐟🪸 Maybe with
@blueventures.bsky.social
support, funded by
@blueactionfund.org
, the unique Barren Isles are next?
#OceanOptimism
www.capmad.com/news/sustain...
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Madagascar: a beacon for marine biodiversity 🌊🐠
Madagascar is stepping up efforts to preserve its unique marine biodiversity and protect its ecosystems from current threats.
https://madagasikara.fr/en/madagascar-is-firmly-committed-to-protecting-its-marine-biodiversity/
2 months ago
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Looking forward to today‘s ‚Donor Roundtable on Financing Madagascar Protected Area‘, cohosted by MD Protected Areas and Biodiverdity Fund and KfW. Hoping for valuable insights and fruitful discussions. Ready to ensure that the marine ecosystem is not forgotten 💙
@blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism
2 months ago
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Waves of Changes, part II. Wonderful story and pics from
@gridarendal.bsky.social
‘s team transforming 🇳🇦Lüderitz through art and awareness for its marine life in cooperation with Namibia Nature Foundation. NIMPA+ project funded by
@blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism
news.grida.no/waves-of-cha...
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Waves of Change, Phase II: Return to Lüderitz - GRID-Arendal News
After an eight-hour drive from Windhoek, Hasan and I arrived in Lüderitz and were greeted by the welcome sign we painted last year. The lines were still sharp, a traditional fisherman pulling a boat r...
https://news.grida.no/waves-of-change-phase-ii-return-to-luederitz
2 months ago
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Gender equality & equity are crucial
@blueactionfund.org
projects, esp those co-funded by
@greenclimate.fund
. Check out insightful video from our
@blueventures.bsky.social
showing first hand testimony from local community members in 🇲🇬:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfz1...
@oceancecilia.bsky.social
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The power of gender equality
YouTube video by BV Mada Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfz1j72xNjs
2 months ago
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Project Website of
@blueactionfund.org
‘s funded PaMAR project in Cabo Verde now online, implemented d by
@faunaflora.bsky.social
Check it out and sign up to receive hopefully many updates full of
#OceanOptimism
:
www.projeto-pamar.com/en
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Home | Projeto Pamar
https://www.projeto-pamar.com/en
2 months ago
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Excited about this milestone 🥳🥳 Looking forward to see this project now coming to life in implementation 🌊
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3 months ago
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reposted by
Sophie Thayne
🌊Markus Knigge🐟
3 months ago
Big 👞👞 to fill: 🦈 conservation fund is looking for executive director based in 🇺🇸 ➡️
bit.ly/45rPQz1
Exciting opportunity with great team & several co-investments with
@blueactionfund.org
in 🇿🇦, 🇳🇦, 🇬🇼, 🇨🇻...
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Sophie Thayne
Stacy Jupiter
4 months ago
** Exciting postdoc opportunity in community-based fisheries co-management ** Come work with Patrick Smallhorn-West at JCU & me at WCS to understand patterns of co-management governance and link these to social and ecological outcomes. Full job description here:
careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...
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Maybe I should diversify bedtime stories? 😅
#preschooldrawings
#OceanOptimism
4 months ago
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Follow
@projectovito.bsky.social
to learn more about this NGOs important marine and coastal work done in Cabo Verde on Fogo and Brava Island Proudly funded by
@blueactionfund.org
in the context of project PaMAR!
#OceanOptimism
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4 months ago
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🌊3 yrs
@blueactionfund.org
– never a dull moment!✨ - Managed 5 grants across 4 countries - Project visits to MD, NAM & CV - Collected & analysed site + MPAGuide data for 180+ sites - Learned the ropes of mapping - Worked with an amazing team💙 And above all: a ton of
#OceanOptimism
Excited for more.
5 months ago
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Meanwhile in Madagascar…impactful
@blueventures.bsky.social
story on learning exchanges between fishing communities from 🇲🇬 and 🇰🇪, funded by
@blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism
explore.blueventures.org/madagascar-t...
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Madagascar to Kenya - Blue Ventures - Photo Stories
Tucked away from other beach management units in Kenya’s Kwale County lies Mwamdudu beach, a fishing village amid mangrove channels and estuaries, where local fishers cast their nets for prawns and ot...
https://explore.blueventures.org/madagascar-to-kenya
5 months ago
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Sounds like a great opportunity for students -
@uwiceland.bsky.social
for example 😎
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6 months ago
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reposted by
Sophie Thayne
Blue Action Fund
6 months ago
Heart of Conservation Initiative 🌊 1-2 million USD 2026-2030 🌊 On-the-ground projects 🌊 Focus IPLC Deadline for EoI June 30 2025
www.worldwildlife.org/pages/wwf-ge...
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WWF GEF Expressions of Interest | Pages | WWF
Call for Expressions of Interest
https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/wwf-gef-expressions-of-interest
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reposted by
Sophie Thayne
Blue Action Fund
6 months ago
Meanwhile in Honduras 🇭🇳... Excellent example of a grievance mechanism...👇 Grant fact sheet for our €4.9 million project with
@rare.org
➡️https://ogy.de/2lt5
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Meanwhile in Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 - funded by
@blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism
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6 months ago
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Who would have guessed? Good thing that
@blueactionfund.org
, we collect this data for all our almost 300 sites at project start - and end!
#OceanOptimism
#MPAGuide
#EffectiveMPAs
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6 months ago
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Inspired and grateful for teaching future marine managers. Good discussions and a lot of
#oceanoptimism
Takk fyrir
@uwiceland.bsky.social
and
@blueactionfund.org
🙏❤️🇮🇸
6 months ago
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What a day! After an inspiring morning at Icelands Ministry for Foreign Affairs, I drove through the stunning westfjords - returning 10 years after my time as a student
@uwiceland.bsky.social
, now as a guest lecturer on MPAs and part of
@blueactionfund.org
A full-circle moment I won’t forget.
6 months ago
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Getting ready ✈️🇮🇸👩🏫 🥳
@blueactionfund.org
@uwiceland.bsky.social
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6 months ago
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How awesome is that? Well deserved
@oceanweigand.bsky.social
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6 months ago
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reposted by
Sophie Thayne
Blue Action Fund
6 months ago
Save the date:
#CoastalClimateHeroes
9 June
#UNOC3
, featuring several of our grants incl. in 🇧🇿 & 🇲🇬. Cohosted with
@wwf.de
@bmz.de
&
@giz.de
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Changing times politically in 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇦 but some things stay the same like us
@blueactionfund.org
enjoying to welcome grantees in Berlin - this time Namibia Nature Foundation - hopefully soon joining Bluesky!
#oceanoptimism
7 months ago
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reposted by
Sophie Thayne
Blue Action Fund
7 months ago
3x
@blueactionfund.org
at next week's 🇩🇪 Ocean Conference hosted by
@bmuv.de
: 🌊 MPA funding deep-dive with
@oceanweigand.bsky.social
🌊
#30by30
panel with
@oceanknigge.bsky.social
🌊 & Climate Change panel with former board chair
@heikehenn.bsky.social
from
@bmz.de
We are looking forward to it!
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Sophie Thayne
Nuri
7 months ago
Good reminder from
@taotaotasi.bsky.social
...
#OurOcean
#UNOC
news.mongabay.com/2024/04/it-w...
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It will take 880 years to achieve UN ocean conservation goals, at this rate (commentary)
The ninth Our Ocean conference takes place this week in Athens, Greece. It is the largest and highest profile conference of its kind, and attracts presidents and celebrities, who all try to outdo one ...
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/it-will-take-880-years-to-achieve-un-ocean-conservation-goals-at-this-rate-commentary/
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Sophie Thayne
🌊Markus Knigge🐟
7 months ago
👇 one for
@blueactionfund.org
grantees plus
@oceanthayne.bsky.social
&
@idelamer.bsky.social
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New research on LMMAs in MD confirms it: strong local governance is key, but gaps remain.
@blueactionfund.org
supports
@blueventures.bsky.social
in addressing this very issue in the Barren Isles. 📖 Study:
tinyurl.com/LMMAstudy
📄 Grant:
tinyurl.com/BVfactsheet
#LMMA
#Madagascar
#OceanOptimism
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https://tinyurl.com/LMMAstudy
7 months ago
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A warm welcome to
@projectovito.bsky.social
on Bluesky, subgrantee in the
@blueactionfund.org
funded PaMAR project in 🇨🇻 Follow their important work on Fogo and Brave Island! More about our project ➡️
www.blueactionfund.org/wp-content/u...
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7 months ago
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Sophie Thayne
Environmental Justice Foundation
8 months ago
In Senegal, fishing is central to livelihoods and the country’s economic development. However, fish populations are dwindling due to largely foreign-owned industrial fishing fleets plundering their coasts and profits.
@remykaller.bsky.social
& Hans Wetzels report on the impact of EU-owned vessels:
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European fishing boats hurt West Africa's future
Follow the Money travelled to the West African coast and discovered how fishing companies from Spain and France are plundering Senegalese waters while siphoning off the profits. As Senegal strives to ...
https://www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-fishing-companies-are-emptying-senegalese-seas-stealing-the-country-s-future?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebuttonleden&utm_source=linkbutton&share=QPqSR5j0DSaVjWoidnWHIiRc4oHxpDiiqX3tA1igoUBnfjnM%2FP7Uzfufw2iOWwI%3D
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Looking forward to many more adventures and endeavours with the one and only
@oceanweigand.bsky.social
- thank you!!
@blueactionfund.org
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8 months ago
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@blueactionfund.org
wouldn‘t be where it is without
@oceancecilia.bsky.social
🥳🥳
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8 months ago
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Using the
#MPAguide
@
@blueactionfund.org
to assess progress of supported MPAs ❤️ ➡️ Clear progress on level of protection & stage of establishment ➡️ size of bubble indicates MPA size! ➡️ MPA ≠ MPA
#MPAinsights
🌊📊
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8 months ago
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Sophie Thayne
🌊Markus Knigge🐟
8 months ago
How to best visualise progress of
@blueactionfund.org
's grant programme?
@oceanweigand.bsky.social
&
@oceanthayne.bsky.social
testing re progress in MPA management 👇... Any thoughts?
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MPA ≠ MPA
@blueactionfund.org
supports a wide range of MPAs under different forms of governance Only one missing so far ➡️ : privately governed MPAs
#MPAinsights
🌊📊
8 months ago
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🌊 New Series! We’ll start sharing insights from our
@blueactionfund.org
program - tracking protection levels, governance & more! 📊💙 Why? Because data drives impact! Stay tuned for our first post & let us know what interests you most! ⬇️
#BlueAction
#MarineConservation
#30x30
#OceanOptimism
8 months ago
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Excited to guest lecture
@uwiceland.bsky.social
on MPA mgt in May! 🌊✨I’ll be discussing the role of NGOs in marine conservation, esp in the Global South, along with effective mgt approaches and the 30x30 Agenda. Looking forward to great discussions!
@blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism
8 months ago
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