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Get Ready for Party for the Planet and World Ocean Day
The March webinar (see recording below) featured: Heidi Faris, Connecting to Nature Coordinator at the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, who provided an overview of Party for the Planet for 2022 Samantha Gibb, the (new as January!) World Ocean Day Manager who provided an overview of exciting opportunities around World Ocean Day on June 8, […]
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The Climate Crisis, COP26, and the Zoo, Aquarium and Museum Community
The First Friday Webinar for November featured a timely talk as COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow continues. The discussion included the intersection between the climate, biodiversity and the pandemic and the importance of nature conservation, as well as what the zoo, aquarium and museum community can do to help. Also included was […]
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Previewing AZA 2021 – Sessions on Engaging the Public and Advancing Conservation
During the September edition of our First Friday Webinar Series we previewed some of the most exciting sessions on engaging the public and advancing conservation that will be part of the upcoming Annual Conference of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which will take place online from September 20-24. Cheryl Andrews, Director of Conferences at […]
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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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Youth-a-thon
To help youth worldwide connect during the pandemic, we developed Youth-a-thon for June 2020 and a created a second one for June 2021. A 24-hour livestream event, this unique event allowed young people to learn more about conservation efforts and environmental issues, connect with a global community of diverse change makers, and join the movement […]
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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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World Ocean Day 2021
Protecting 30% of our blue planet for a healthy ocean and climate World Ocean Day belongs to all groups, collectively everywhere. We look forward to collaborating with you in 2021, and beyond, to help create a healthy ocean, a healthy climate, and a better future – together! World Ocean Day helps unite the world to […]
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Protecting 30% of our blue planet by 2030
Efforts by aquariums, zoos, museums and others to help ocean animals like this sea turtle just got a big boost with today’s announcement of a new national goal to protect at least 30% of U.S. lands and ocean by 2030! The Ocean Project applauds President Biden’s action today to establish a national goal of protecting […]
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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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