Blue Marine Foundation

By funding this project you are contributing to their work. You will receive impact reports and measurements but you won't receive a carbon credit.

The ocean is the world’s largest carbon sink. It provides us with half the oxygen we breathe. It stabilises the Earth’s temperature providing food and livelihoods for billions of people around the world. While the ocean covers over 70% of our planet, less than 3% is properly protected from destructive activities such as overfishing. Our mission is to see at least 30 per cent of the ocean effectively protected by 2030. To date, Blue Marine alongside our global partners, has contributed to the protection of over 4.5m square kilometres of ocean.

Protecting the ocean is good for biodiversity, good for the climate, for communities and for those who depend on fishing for their livelihoods. Blue Marine is devoting everything it has achieving our mission to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030 as part of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

To deliver meaningful marine protection, Blue Marine uses a top down and bottom-up strategy, meaning that we work with our partners, fishing communities and in collaboration with government to deliver meaningful marine protection.

One example is 'The Lyme Bay Reserve' covers an area of 236 sq km where bottom towed fishing gear has been banned - over 206 sq km has been protected since 2008. We brought together fishermen, conservationists, researchers, and regulators to manage  and support local small-scale, static-gear fishing within sustainable limits. Since then, More than 15 years of research in the Bay has shown that removal of bottom trawling can increase reef species by 95%, and the abundance of fish by almost 400%, while also making the seabed more resilient to storms. 

Greece , Kenya, Mozambique , UK