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Heartwired to Love Marine Protected Areas
Late last fall, The Ocean Project was pleased to receive an ocean messaging grant from Heartwired to Love the Ocean. This grant complements our current collaborative campaign initiative with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation that has allowed us to support zoos, aquariums, and museums over the last few years in getting more involved to effectively […]
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Americans Are Heartwired to Love the Ocean
In a deeply divided country, here’s how advocates can put that to work to protect the ocean for future generations By Robert Pérez & Amy Simon “The ocean does something to your spirit,” an African-American woman from Charlotte, North Carolina volunteered during a focus group. “You are stressed out when you are driving. You […]
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Prior Campaigns
Since our founding in the late 1990s, The Ocean Project has supported our network of partner zoos, aquariums, and museums (ZAMs) to become bolder leaders for conservation, with their visitors, the public, and through involvement on policy-related issues, both as individual institutions and collectively as a powerful community that engages tens of millions of visitors […]
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Webinar Archive
The First Friday webinar series ran monthly from 2018-early 2023 and focused on how to strategically, safely, and cost-effectively get more involved in conservation engagement, policy, and advocacy. The webinars were developed for those working at visitor-serving organizations who interact with guests, community partners, public officials, and supporters and were made possible thanks in large […]
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New Guide Available to Engage Visitors on Conservation Policy Issues
The Ocean Project is pleased to offer a guide summarizing how to apply a successful approach to engaging visitors on policy issues in a way that will raise their awareness, document their support, and enhance their experience, and then sharing that support with policymakers in a way that resonates. The Guide to Effectively Engaging the Visiting […]
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Forward for our blue planet in 2020!
Thanks to all our partners for doing so much to help with bringing about a better future! In so many ways in 2019, youth, zoos and aquariums, progressive-minded businesses and corporations, and others in our growing global network continued to step up their efforts for conservation action. The Ocean Project is all about collaborative conservation, and our lean […]
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What Happened at the Policy Engagement and Advocacy Workshop at the AZA Conference Shouldn’t Stay in New Orleans
In September at the AZA Annual Conference, The Ocean Project hosted a policy engagement and advocacy boot camp for two dozen registrants with a variety of professional responsibilities at their institutions. The participants represented a diverse range of aquariums and zoos (small, medium and large; non-profit, municipal and for profit; coastal and inland), few had […]
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Round Two of Fisheries Engagement Effort is a Knockout!
A second round of public engagement efforts has expanded our collective understanding of how best to connect with the visiting public about science-based fisheries management policies. “The timing is critical as Congress could revisit these policies as soon as next year and aquariums and zoos can play a vital role in raising awareness of the […]
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Visitor Engagement
The Ocean Project is currently collaborating with our network Partners — zoos, aquariums and museums (ZAMs) — in support of the goal of 30×30 and the need for strong science-based fisheries management, building upon extensive experience gained from earlier efforts including the Innovative Solutions Grants+ Program. Research by The Ocean Project and others has underscored the ways […]
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