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Global Partner Network
Over 25 years we have built a growing global partner network that continues to evolve and currently includes more than 2,000 youth organizations, aquariums, zoos, museums, and other organizations in 150 countries. Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. – Ryunosuke Satoro Joining as a Partner is open to any organization that shares […]
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Get to Know Your Conservation Impact
Earlier this month, The Ocean Project hosted a second webinar in the Making Conservation HappenBrown Bag Webinar Series.These Friday webinars are geared specifically to helping aquariums and zoos do more in the policy space and are supported in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The May 4 webinar focused on what resources zoos […]
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People want to help! Using your existing resources to help your visitors do even more for conservation action
Recently, I was spending a couple of days by myself at the Southern Delaware shore that advertises itself as “low and slow,” and this time of year it’s more like low and slower, which makes it a great time to get away. But sometimes when you want to get away, you can’t. One night I […]
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The Foxes are Guarding the Henhouse: An unprecedented need to protect the policies that protect our environment
At a watch party for President Trump’s inauguration ceremony in January 2017, I had a conversation with a friend who’s a lawyer at one of DC’s biggest law and lobbying firms – I might as well have been talking to a psychic. A large part of his practice involves negotiating with federal agencies to gain […]
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Collaborating for Conservation in 2018
Happy holiday season! Thank you to all the organizations from around the world that are involved in our partner network and working to advance conservation. Together, we are making a real difference! We hope The Ocean Project’s work to support our partners over the past year – and for nearly 20 years – has been […]
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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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Our team
We like to say that collaboration is in our organizational DNA. For over 27 years, The Ocean Project has worked behind the scenes to support our network of partner organizations to catalyze collective action and grow the movement for our blue planet. We are data-driven and solutions-focused, and we punch far above our weight. Small […]
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Thank you, President Obama, for Designating the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument!
On behalf of its network of 2,000 aquariums, zoos, museums, youth groups, and conservation organizations across all 50 states and 100 countries, The Ocean Project thanks President Obama for designating the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, and creating a lasting legacy for current and future generations of Americans. During this 100th anniversary year […]
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ISG+ New Project: Tasting Sustainability at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
This guest post is submitted by Debbie Colodner, Director of Conservation Education and Science from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and is the first in a 3-part series on their Innovative Solutions Grants+ project where they are partnered with Leading for Good to see if they can move the needle on sustainable seafood in Tucson, Arizona. Some might […]
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Seas the Day in July – Eating for a Better World
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” -Oscar Wilde “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J.R.R. Tolkin “Seas” the days of July by thinking about what you eat. Your well-traveled food comes from all over the world, […]
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