One Ocean, One Climate, One Future – Together
A semi-annual newsletter for partners and friends of The Ocean Project
as we advance collaborative conservation for our blue planet
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This newsletter provides updates and opportunities to help you advance your mission for conservation. It's part of our efforts to catalyze and support collaborative action for conservation in partnership with youth organizations, youth leaders, aquariums, zoos, museums, and others from all sectors in our growing global network. Together, we can effectively engage the public, grow a broad and diverse constituency, ensure that policymakers take action, and unite the world to protect and restore our blue planet!
- Safeguarding our blue planet through collaborative action on “30×30”
- Announcing the 2022/2023 World Ocean Day Youth Advisory Council!
- Rising Blue: Supporting diverse youth leadership
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Check out the World Ocean Day 2022 Annual Report
- Our commitment to collaborative conservation
- Discover the latest with our blogs and social media platforms
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Safeguarding our Blue Planet through
Collaborative Action on 30x30
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Over the last year, The Ocean Project has continued to support the global movement towards "30x30," the goal of protecting at least 30% of our blue planet's lands, waters and ocean by 2030. Collaborating with our partners, we have been promoting 30x30 as the Conservation Action Focus for World Ocean Day for the third straight year; integrating 30x30 into our global youth engagement and leadership initiative; and advancing 30x30 within the zoo, aquarium and museum (ZAM) community, including through coordinating a 30x30 working group in the United States.
This 30x30 working group has created a comprehensive set of tools and resources available at no charge for other organizations to use in their own outreach and engagement efforts around 30x30, including a messaging kit that has proven especially popular as a training tool for staff and volunteers, two videos that are being used to introduce 30x30 to various audiences, and a creative concept for a 'recording booth' used to capture visitor opinions so that they can be shared with decision makers.
We also collaborated on a letter related to 30x30 that was signed by three major US ZAM associations (AZA, ASTC, and AAM) and 200 ZAMs from 50 US states in an unprecedented show of support for conservation, and delivered it to leaders in Washington, DC. And with the UN Biodiversity Summit (COP15) in Montreal this December, we will continue to encourage organizations and individuals to ask global leaders to adopt the goal of 30x30.
→ To learn more about the efforts of the 30x30 working group and explore the various tools and resources available to other organizations, go to the 30x30 landing page.
→ To see some of the resources being developed by our partners at the Campaign for Nature in advance of COP15 in Montreal, check out their social media toolkit.
→ To stay updated on the opportunities to show support for 30x30 and the America the Beautiful initiative, members of AZA can join the “30x30 Community" on the AZA network or contact us directly.
→ To explore ideas and options for how your zoo, aquarium or museum can get more actively involved, please contact us at [email protected].
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Announcing the 2022-2023
World Ocean Day Youth Advisory Council!
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We are proud to introduce the new cohort for 2022-2023! Representing 20 nations, these young leaders come from all types of backgrounds and experiences and will help power World Ocean Day forward throughout the year ahead.
Thank you to all who applied; thank you to the 2022 Selection Committee who helped with this challenging process!
→ Click here to learn more about the new Council members.
→ For young people and youth-focused organizations, you can subscribe to a monthly update that helps connect and empower youth around the world with opportunities for individual and collective action.
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Rising Blue: Supporting Diverse Youth Leadership |
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Supporting youth leadership and advocacy in collaboration with youth-led and youth-serving organizations has been a top priority of The Ocean Project since 2009. We are committed to radically collaborating with others around the world to develop a broad, diverse, active, and united youth constituency for our blue planet.
This past year we have collaborated with youth organizations and youth leaders worldwide to help secure national commitments for 30x30. Through our training programs, we provide diverse youth with training and support to push for stronger conservation policies, provide platforms for them to share their stories and have their voices heard with national and world leaders and decision-makers. For the year ahead, we plan to expand these advocacy and leadership training opportunities for youth worldwide.
→ If you work with youth (ages 16-22) who want to join with like-minded young people and grow the global movement to protect our ocean and climate, please forward this or have them subscribe here to get monthly updates on exciting leadership opportunities!
→ Learn more about the Rising Blue Youth Initiative here.
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Check out the World Ocean Day 2022 Annual Report
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World Ocean Day unites and rallies the world to protect and restore our blue planet. With thanks to thousands of organizations from all sectors that got involved, the leadership of the Youth Advisory Council, and contributions from the World Ocean Day Supporters who help make it possible, this year's activities engaged millions of people, both online and onsite in 140 countries, raised the profile of the ocean with decisionmakers and the media, and grew in exciting ways after two years of the pandemic!
For the third consecutive year, the Conservation Action Focus for World Ocean Day 2022 showed support for 30x30. By incorporating actionable resources, and working in collaboration with the Campaign for Nature, the collective efforts of World Ocean Day event organizers generated over 70,000 individual signatures from 120+ countries and an endorsement of support from 1,100+ organizations in support of 30x30. More than 100 countries have committed to the conservation goals of 30x30. We are now working with global partners to make the summit in Montreal a success, and ensure those countries that have made a commitment follow through on implementation.
→ If you'd like to become a World Ocean Day 2023 Supporter/Sponsor, please contact us.
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Our Commitment to Collaborative Conservation |
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For 25 years, The Ocean Project team has intentionally worked behind-the-scenes to support our partners -- especially youth leaders, aquariums, zoos and science museums, and others in our global network -- to be bolder leaders for conservation action. We are committed to inclusivity and providing opportunities for all, radically collaborating to help grow the movement for a more equitable and sustainable society and a healthy ocean and climate that we all need to survive and thrive, no matter where we live.
to protect and restore our blue planet -- together!
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Discover the Latest with our Blogs & Social Media Platforms |
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