Undersea telecom cables could become a global monitoring network. The #EUfunded project is exploring how to repurpose existing cables for environmental and natural-hazard detection. A new frontier for marine science and hazard monitoring. Read more: link.europa.eu/QdM6JJ #Science4EU 🧪

New analysis finds Regional Fisheries Management Organisations are underperforming across key conservation measures, with over half of assessed #fish stocks overexploited. The findings come as the UN’s High Seas Treaty approaches enforcement. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/global-...

Great opportunity to join the wonderful @blueactionfund.org Team - check this out 👇

🇩🇪 Government formally agrees ratifcation of #HighSeasTreaty. Last step approval by @bundestag.de (i.e. Parliament). 👏 well done @umweltministerium.de @oceanunger.bsky.social. Race open to make it before 17th Jan 🗓️ 😉 #OceanOptimism @highseasalliance.bsky.social #BBNJ ogy.de/roxw

Meanwhile in Pemba 🇹🇿...

Meanwhile 🌊♀️💪 in South Africa 🇿🇦... @wildtrust.co.za @oceanthyrza.bsky.social

🇩🇪 🌊 Hörempfehlung: Kollege @kdetloff.bsky.social vom @nabu.de im Gespräch mit @uedio.bsky.social. 👇

Wonderful! ♀️💪

Wonderful 🎄 #BerlinOceanDinner. Everyone brought a book that’s inspired her/him to work in marine conservation 🌊🪸🦈 Perfect timing for gift ideas 🎁

And if I may add - Comprehensive national implementation law agreed as well 🌊💪

I just did my share with @oceanpia.bsky.social eating several plates of lionfish ceviche in Belize...😉

Looking for a meaningful job with a great team and lots of #OceanOptimism ? A chance like this does not come around often 👇 #jobalert @blueactionfund.org

In case you know someone, who knows someone... We are looking for a grant manager based in Berlin. ogy.de/z0hz

🇩🇪 Government formally agrees ratifcation of #HighSeasTreaty. Last step approval by @bundestag.de (i.e. Parliament). 👏 well done @umweltministerium.de @oceanunger.bsky.social. Race open to make it before 17th Jan 🗓️ 😉 #OceanOptimism @highseasalliance.bsky.social #BBNJ ogy.de/roxw

Solar-powered LED buoys developed by U.S. researchers and Gulf of California fishers cut sea turtle bycatch by 63%. The rechargeable lights last days without sun and help turtles see gill nets. Co-designed with fishing communities, the tech could hit commercial production in 2–3 years.

Meanwhile in South Africa 🇿🇦... @wildtrust.co.za

💙 it! Each week 🌊🎣 gender success stories celebrating ♀️💪🏼. Watch out @oceanweigand.bsky.social @katieocean.bsky.social @oceancecilia.bsky.social @verampcoelho.bsky.social @stacyjupiter.bsky.social @kathmaa.bsky.social @oceanthyrza.bsky.social

#OceanGrants 💵🌊 Thanks @iki-germany.bsky.social for investing in #OceanOptimism

Meanwhile in Pemba 🇹🇿... @wcs.org @oceansteinmann.bsky.social

So sorry we couldn't contribute due to other commitments. Wishing you a stellar event. #OceanOptimism ♀️💪🏼 @oceanweigand.bsky.social @oceanpia.bsky.social

Our mission, in 60 seconds. 💙🌊 This Giving Tuesday, Sand Cloud is matching all gifts 1:1 — doubling impact for ocean protection. Watch, share, give if you can: marine-conservation.org/give/ #GivingTuesday #OceanConservation #BlueParks

Want to work with us...

I talked last week with @andrewlewin.bsky.social about How Deep Sea Mining Could Break the Ocean’s Most Important Wildlife Highways - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKV...

#OceanGrants 🌊💶🐟 Thanks @iki-germany.bsky.social & @umweltministerium.de for 💰 #OceanOptimism

#OceanGrants 🌊💶🐟

#OceanGrants 🌊💶🐟 Thanks @wwf-ocean.bsky.social for 💰 #OceanOptimism

Decision at first #highseastreaty COP in NY

#OceanGrants 🌊💶🐟 Thanks @endangeredlands.bsky.social for 💰 #OceanOptimism

Decision at first #highseastreaty COP in NY

Any views/ideas for hashtag to highlight 🌊💶, such as call for proposals, awards? 🌊 #OceanFunding 🌊 #OceanFinance 🌊 #OceanGrants 🌊 #SEAthemoney I myself could use one to avoid losing overview... Paging @oceansteinmann.bsky.social @taotaotasi.bsky.social @katieocean.bsky.social for💡.

Exchanging if we should use design of our bags also for posters... @blueactionfund.org @oceanhugues.bsky.social

Some inspiration for our @blueactionfund.org projects around the world. 🧊🧊🧊 www.seafoodsource.com/news/environ...

JPI Oceans has launched a Joint Call on #BlueCarbon to build understanding of its role in climate mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity protection. The call provides €5.3 million in funding and remains open for proposals until 2 March 2026. www.jpi-oceans.eu/en/joint-cal...

🌊 Marine conservation starts with people... Thanks @wildtrust.co.za. @blueactionfund.org @oceanthyrza.bsky.social

Sweeping trade protections adopted for sharks and rays at #CITESCOP20. “It’s taken 20 to 30 years to get recognition that sharks and rays — keystone predators in marine ecosystems globally — need that protection,” says WCS’s @lukedavid301.bsky.social. 🌏 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Starry Night over the Rhone. 1888 by 🧑‍🎨 Vincent van Gogh. #muSEAum

Very proud to be Colombian right now! 🇨🇴 I hope all neighboring countries follow suit soon! news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Mini grants (💶34K) to identify & safeguarding blue corridors for 🐳🐬 in the Wider Caribbean & Coral Triangle Seascapes. Deadline: 12 December. Sponsored by 🐼 @wwf-ocean.bsky.social wwfwhales.org/conservation...

Scope for more: If you call your luxury watch line 'seamaster' & use plenty of 🌊 pictures on your highly expensive advertisement, I would 💙 to see this reflected in 💶 support to #MarineConservation. What about some % of all sales go into #OceanOptimism projects?

Least surprising news of the day...

“This is one of the greatest days in the history of shark and ray conservation.” Historic trade protections were adopted at #CITESCOP20 today. The next step is strong implementation on the ground, says WCS’s @lukedavid301.bsky.social. 🌏

For all seaweed lovers 👇🏼 #PhycologyFriday @adlysia.bsky.social

Online: Final report, incl achievements, challenges & lessons learned from our grant to Island Conservation re Galapagos and Cocos MPAs ➡️ ogy.de/jbot. 💙 for administering this on our side @oceandreher.bsky.social

It's really hard to overstate the conservation significance of this, and what doors it unlocks for future conservation. Mood among my global endangered species conservation colleagues is off-the-charts happy today.

A major victory for sharks and rays at #CITESCOP20. All CITES shark and ray proposals pass – marking the most comprehensive advance in global shark conservation in CITES history. This took a true partnership effort to achieve the outcome. @lukedavid301.bsky.social newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

Done for 2025.... Next @blueactionfund.org board meeting 26 in Dublin. Me & @oceanweigand.bsky.social as well as special guest @idelamer.bsky.social are looking forward to it. #OceanOptimism

A new Reef Exchanges episode dives into how #MERMAID grew from simple spreadsheets into a global tool helping scientists and MPA teams collect and report coral reef data more efficiently. Happy to support this effort through several @blueactionfund.org grants. reefresilience.org/reefexchange...

I can personally vouch—these roles are genuinely exciting…

Interestingly, promoters of 'innovative' financing instruments rather often seek supposedly not so innovative grant funding (which is has difficulties to attract 💶 as it is not considered sufficient 'innovative'). 🤔

#OceanOptimism funded by 🌊 🇩🇪 @bmz.de 🌊 🇳🇴 @norad.no 🌊 🇫🇷 @afd-france.bsky.social 🌊 🇮🇪 @irishaid.bsky.social 🌊 🇸🇪 @swedishmfa.bsky.social List of our investments ➡️ ogy.de/mlsp