13 min 📽️about @rare.org project in Mozambique 🇲🇿... #OceanOptimism funded by @blueactionfund.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex10...

“Yet again, powerful fossil fuel states are successfully blocking global efforts on climate change. This is not the result the industry wanted, nor one the world’s people can afford. Trump’s aggressive, destructive lobbying has their made this job much harder” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great opportunity to work with a fabulous team spreading #OceanOptimism around the globe 👇

Yesterday we completed Part 1 of @blueactionfund.org visit on Príncipe Island. Thanks to @faunaflora.bsky.social & Fundacao Principe for showing us your important work on the Island. Establishing MPAs & establishing small businesses to help communities becoming more resilient. #oceanoptimism

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

Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New additions: 🌊🐳 @rakraemer.bsky.social from @oceanoazul.bsky.social ⚓🚢 @lr-foundation.bsky.social 🏃🏼‍♀️to 💶 ➡️ go.bsky.app/QPepXsG #OceanOptimism

In a Letter to the Editor to Nature... four marine leaders call for an end to bottom trawling in MPAs tinyurl.com/3pnx952x

A bitter day for the fight against climate change. The decision by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to postpone the decision on the climate protection pathway for global shipping by one year is wrong. Countries may be able to be pressured, but the planet cannot.

Kudos 🇪🇸 👏. #OceanOptimism #MPAs #30by30 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/conserv...

Meanwhile in Honduras 🇭🇳, @rare.org is making 🌊🌊🌊... #OceanOptimism funded by @bmz.de @norad.no @afd-france.bsky.social @irishaid.bsky.social @swedishmfa.bsky.social plus match funding from Becht & others. @oceandreher.bsky.social currently on project visit.

📣 Our new case study, Expanding community-led conservation for fishers in Honduras, spotlights our work with local communities to place over 14K sq km of ocean under sustainable, community-led management. 🇭🇳 🌊 🪸 🐟 bit.ly/4nR7ofN

Meanwhile in Indonesia 🇮🇩... 🦀 Mudcrabs: community-led recovery that turns the tide ➡️ ogy.de/qnw5%F0%9F%A... 📈 Crabs inside no-take zones 16% heavier & 7.5% longer 🎣 In some sites, CPUE up by 78% 📖 Villages leading their own conservation rules

CAMPAIGN WIN! Scottish Government has announced new fisheries management measures which will protect over 176,000km2 of Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas from bottom-towed fishing gear! We're looking back on the 20yrs it took to get here👇 www.mcsuk.org/news/scotland-offshore-mpas-protection-win

#OceanOptimism (even if end of the pipe) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Can we have dinner 🌊🪸🐳 entries?

Magic itching in my fingers.... @blueactionfund.org's Board approved next major investment in #30by30 . More news before end of the month... #OceanOptimism #MPAs @oceanweigand.bsky.social

Sharing some good news from our work at @blueactionfund.org. We just signed a €4.8 million project to strengthen #MPAs in Bangladesh. We have been developing this project over the past months, and it feels rewarding to now see it become reality. #OceanOptimism

#EUOceanWeek discussion: @anaisberthier.bsky.social explains how NGOs filed complaints with the EU on breaches of EU environmental law due to ongoing #BottomTrawling in #MPAs but enforcement by @ec.europa.eu is lacking to ensure #ProtectedMeansProtected

Important news for those tracking #30by30. @protectedplanet.bsky.social merging WDPA & WD-OECM into new 'World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA).' @unep.org @unbiodiversity.bsky.social www.protectedplanet.net/news-and-sto...

Meanwhile in Tanzania 🇹🇿, conservation successes building on past @blueactionfund.org projects... Our Grant Report incl. lessons learned ➡️ ogy.de/wao1 @wwf.de @wwf-ocean.bsky.social @oceancecilia.bsky.social inafrika.co.tz/wwf-tanzania...

Eurostats gentle reminder for discussions re prioritisation of external financial support... 🌊🪸🐋

What do more than 230 scientists and 53 ocean conservation organizations have in common? They just told the Trump administration to protect our marine national monuments. Read more about our work to protect our monuments from industrial fishing: tinyurl.com/4d9xaa6e

Important news for those tracking #30by30. @protectedplanet.bsky.social merging WDPA & WD-OECM into new 'World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA).' @unep.org @unbiodiversity.bsky.social www.protectedplanet.net/news-and-sto...

Please consider following @oceanelders.bsky.social and amplifying their voices... 🌊🐳🪸

Robotic underwater glider sets out to circumnavigate the globe | New Scientist

@wildtrust.co.za is strengthening small-scale fisheries co-management and 17 of 39 committee nominees are women 👏🏾 Women's participation is not only about offering a seat at the table. It’s about building the confidence to take it 🪑 #GenderEquality #Fisheries Photo credits: Mnqobi Zuma | WILDTRUST

Meanwhile in Honduras 🇭🇳...

When your former colleagues turns vice president.... Massive congratulations to you @verampcoelho.bsky.social 🎉🥳 @oceanaeurope.bsky.social @oceana.bsky.social

More Happy News: since end of September São Tomé & Príncipe is the first country with 100% of its land designated as UNESCO Biosphere Reserve! Now we are just waiting for ✍️ of the decree law by the president to establish the first MPAs in the country 👇 A lot of #oceanoptimism & #conservationoptimism

Visit to @blueactionfund.org project (👉 tinyurl.com/ypn86tru) in La Moskitia, Honduras wrapped up - intense and inspiring! Deeply grateful to connect with local Indigenous communities and an incredible team on the ground. Full of #OceanOptimism 🌊💙

Back from Holiday, I had my preferred task on my desk... Thanks for your investements in 🌍 #OceanOptimism & support to @blueactionfund.org 🌊 @bmz.de 🇩🇪 🌊 @norad.no 🇳🇴 🌊 @afd-france.bsky.social 🇫🇷 🌊 @irishaid.bsky.social 🇮🇪 🌊 @swedishmfa.bsky.social 🇸🇪

Snow Storm Steam Boat Off A Harbours Mouth. 1842 by 🧑‍🎨 Joseph Mallord William Turner. #muSEAum

Packed few days in Príncipe 🇸🇹 visiting the @blueactionfund.org -funded project led by @faunaflora.bsky.social, implemented by local partner Fundação Príncipe. 📸 Small-scale enterprises, grievance mechanism in action, fish catch data collection. More on the project👇 sl1nk.com/U2BAb

First two days of our project visit in La Moskitia 🇭🇳 completed ✅ — feeling grateful for the warm welcome and meaningful first insights into the Wan Kabu Ka (Our Ocean) project led by Oikos and funded by @blueactionfund.org 🌊☀️ tinyurl.com/ypn86tru

Our EbA funding window hitting the ground in Berlin... Thanks @ecologic.eu & @bfn-de.bsky.social, for allowing us and our partners to share experiences & lessons learned. #OceanOptimism cofunded by @bmz.de & @greenclimate.fund. @umweltministerium.de @oceanthyrza.bsky.social

Meanwhile in STP 🇸🇹.., @oceanweigand.bsky.social @idelamer.bsky.social

Meanwhile in South Africa 🇿🇦... @wildtrust.co.za @oceanthyrza.bsky.social www.goodthingsguy.com/environment/...

Rumah Foundation launches programme to support publishing costs (💵1.5 to 5k) for researchers & small organisations based in Southeast Asia to help bringing their 🌊🐟🪸🧪 knowledge into the scientific community. ogy.de/d6x9

@endangeredlands.bsky.social offers Planning Grants <US$120K to support early stages of landscape & seascape restoration across Europe: · Building strong collaborations · Establishing biodiversity baselines · Preparing proposals for larger-scale funding 📅 Deadline: 20 January 2026 ogy.de/fbgc

💵 25K National Geographic / Buffet Award for leadership in conservation in Africa & Latrin America 2026. Any marine heroines and heroes out there 🪸🌊🐟? Deadline 17 Oct. ➡️ ogy.de/nybr

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 🙏

Meanwhile in São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹... Thanks also to cofunding from #Oceans5 & @schorstmeyer.bsky.social @faunaflora.bsky.social project currently visited by @idelamer.bsky.social & @oceanweigand.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce that Lavinia Currier and Kristine Tompkins have joined Ocean Elders. Incredible warriors for the planet. 🌎🌍🌏

Research from #Fiji is showing high integrity and intact coral reefs had high resilience to category 5 cyclone, bouncing back in 4 years. These are reefs protected by communities in partnership with local tourism operators. #oceanoptimism

Colleges for now -- but we all know he'll eventually come for the NGOs

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Eurostats gentle reminder for discussions re prioritisation of external financial support... 🌊🪸🐋

Mainly thanks to 🇵🇫*, global MPA coverage increased around 1% to 9.61%. To reach #30by30, we 'only' need to create & equitable manage 38,697 km² of new MPA (roughly the size of Butan) EVERY SINGLE DAY till end of 2030. Work to do @blueactionfund.org & others. @protectedplanet.bsky.social (1/2)

Upcoming OCTO webinar introducing the new IUCN guidebook on 'Assessing and Improving Social Equity in Marine Conservation' - 28 October 15.00 CET us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...