Charting the Path Forward: Balancing Conservation and Development in the North Sea
By Belinda Ng, Lotta Baalerud, and Louisa Hoy As alumni of the World Ocean Day Youth Advisory Council, we are passionate about raising awareness of the ocean’s most pressing threats and actively working to protect it as young people. The three of us live in countries connected by the North Sea, a vast body of […]
Mobilize to Protect 50% of Our Blue Planet that is the High Seas
In partnership with the High Seas Alliance, and its many partner organizations around the world, for the month of May and until the job gets done we are dedicated to getting the High Seas Treaty ratified. It’s time to rally together for the protection of our global ocean and the huge diversity of life it […]
Free Youth Advocacy Training Program for Ocean & Climate Action
The Ocean Project will soon be running its next super collaborative and free 4-week virtual Youth Advocacy Training program for youth around the world. The content is designed for youth ages 16-23, although young people of any age are welcome. Since 2022, these training programs have drawn approximately 1100 youth from dozens of countries around […]
You Can Help Secure a Strong Global Plastics Treaty
We need to turn off the fossil fuel tap that produces plastic and its resultant pollution and other harm to humans and the rest of life on our blue planet. Cleaning up the ocean and the beaches is helpful. However, it will never adequately address this issue if we don’t prevent plastic pollution in the first place. […]
Historic Opportunity to Solve the Plastic Problem
Plastic pollution is everywhere: from the highest mountain to the deepest ocean trench, to Antarctica, in our food, and in our bodies. Most of us are aware that plastic pollution is awash in our ocean, killing marine life, clogging waterways, and littering coastlines and beaches. The images of entangled whales, turtles, seabirds, fish, and other […]
12 Months of Action for Our Ocean
New for 2025! Link here! We are looking forward to collaborating with you throughout 2024! The 8th of June is the annual crescendo of celebration and action and throughout World Ocean Day month there will be thousands of activities and events. New for 2024, we will be providing ways to get more involved all […]
Free Youth Advocacy Training Programs for Ocean & Climate Action
Early in 2024, The Ocean Project will be running two of our annual super collaborative 4-week virtual “Youth Advocacy Training” programs, designed for youth ages 16-23 (although any ages are welcome). The content for both will be similar but we will have different presenters for each iteration, including youth leaders and seasoned professionals. The first […]
You can help create a strong Global Plastics Treaty
Our planet – our home – is overwhelmed with plastic pollution; it’s everywhere: from the highest mountains to the deepest ocean trenches, in our food, and in our bodies. Most of us are aware that plastic pollution is awash in our ocean and killing its life. A lot don’t fully understand how much it’s also […]
Momentum Growing to Protect and Restore our Ocean!
Two major victories in three months with a High Seas Treaty and UN Biodiversity Conference commitments to 30×30 Our ocean finally gets a High Seas Treaty! This past weekend, nations agreed on language to protect the world’s biodiversity in international waters of the ocean, a vast area that covers nearly half the planet’s surface. The […]