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Speak for the fish!
Photo thanks to Jordan Robins The Lorax spoke for the trees, but who will speak for the fish? Our shared ocean, its life and its vast resources are put in the hands of our government for all people. It is no one’s private property but a commons that the government, and all of us, need […]
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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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Engaging on policy issues: Good for your organization, and good for conservation
Many zoos, aquariums, and museums have been actively engaged for many years on educating and informing their elected officials. Many more could be, and The Ocean Project encourages all to do so, to help advance your conservation mission. As a reminder, the public opinion research as well as the application of that research in pilot […]
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Getting Fishy with It
There certainly was something fishy about our First Friday Webinar for April. For this episode, entitled, “Getting Fishy with It,” we were joined by two speakers with information and insights on the importance of fisheries policies and the role that aquariums, zoos and museums can play in ensuring that those polices remain strong and science-based. […]
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Getting ready to celebrate World Ocean Day and Party for the Planet!
In the latest installment of the First Friday Webinar Series, we were joined by three speakers with insights and advice on how aquariums, zoos and museums can make the most of World Ocean Day and Party for the Planet® in 2021. A recording of the webinar can be found here , and the highlights are below. Emma Shahabi of […]
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A Global Perspective on Effective Ocean Messaging
In our latest First Friday Webinar, we had the pleasure of welcoming Sophie Hulme, a cofounder of Communications Inc and one of the essential organizers of the OneOcean Flotilla. Check out the webinar recording below. The Flotilla, as Sophie explains is, “an unbranded, collective drive to achieve maximum impact for the ocean.” This innovative effort […]
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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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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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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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First Friday Webinar Series and News You Can Use
The next webinar in our “First Friday Webinar Series” will be on March 6 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific and will feature the public engagement toolkit we developed from our successful fisheries policy effort. You can join us by clicking: First Friday Webinar. It is hard to believe that The Ocean Project launched this […]
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