Maps? Sharks? Blue Action? Sounds like my kind of fun @oceanknigge.bsky.social On it 🦈

Grant fact sheet about our new €4.7m project with Coral Triangle Centre in Indonesia 🇮🇩. ogy.de/9fih
#OceanOptimism @oceanthayne.bsky.social

A quick, helpful overview of stages of establishment for MPAs💙

Much appreciated by the team @blueactionfund.org as a quick way to assess where sites stand and track progress over a project’s lifetime.

🔗 mpa-guide.protectedplanet.net/MPAGuide_Sta...

We are looking for a Programme Manager Environmental & Social Safeguards based in Berlin. Thrilling job with one of the globally leading 🌊 MPA funders ogy.de/l4xt

Meanwhile in Madagascar 🇲🇬...
@blueventures.bsky.social @oceanthayne.bsky.social

Looking for a meaningful job with a great team and lots of #OceanOptimism ?

A chance like this does not come around often 👇

#jobalert @blueactionfund.org

Surely there is some score for 🌊 projects...

Meanwhile in Namibia 🇳🇦: NIMPA+ Showcased at German–Namibian Government Talks in Lüderitz... ogy.de/fgdj
@oceanthayne.bsky.social @bmz.de @rukodzi.bsky.social

Not every day one of our @blueactionfund.org projects features on the agenda of 🇩🇪🇳🇦 Government Negotiations!

Wishing the Namibia Nature Foundation team every success as they showcase the #NIMPA+ project - a great example of collaboration for people and ocean conservation 🌊🐧🛶

#OceanOptimism

Happy Friday News 🥳

🇳🇦NAMCOB’s very 1st rehabilitation patient Apie has returned to the wild after 412 days.

African penguins are officially listed as Critically Endangered - making NAMCOB’s work even more important

➡️ namcob.org.na/news/namcobs...

Funded by @blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism

🌊Exciting update from the 🇳🇦NIMPA+ project, funded by @blueactionfund.org :

The NIMPA Data Mgt Portal is operational! @saerifi.bsky.social helped develop it bringing together all available info on MPA NIMPA. The portal will serve as decision-making tool. Trainings are underway. 👇 NIMPA.sari.org

How lasting is impact after a project ends?

@blueactionfund.org is among few donors conducting ex post surveys - revisiting completed projects to measure long-term outcomes for people and nature.

Learning of the past to strengthen future marine conservation - cherished. 💙

#OceanOptimism

Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries | PNAS Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries

Fisheries: Creating marine protected areas only displaces fisheries and does not benefit the ocean

Costello: No they don't and yes they do

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Meanwhile in Cabo Verde 🇨🇻…

Good to see project partner @projectovito.bsky.social taking one important step towards getting the wondrous waters around 🇨🇻 more protected @blueactionfund.org

#OceanOptimism #30x30

Meanwhile in Namibia 🇳🇦 ... How Murals Are Bringing Ocean Conservation to Life in Lüderitz nnf.org.na/how-murals-a...
@oceanthayne.bsky.social @oceanweigand.bsky.social

Fair enough-virtual workshops are never the same as being on the ground. But with the political situation preventing our @blueactionfund.org trip, teams @blueventures.bsky.social @akf-global.bsky.social & OSDRM in MD made the best of it and pushed through. Huge thanks @oceancecilia.bsky.social 🙏

Celebrating grant portfolio of our sister fund @legacylandscapes.bsky.social with representatives of all supported protected sites. Amazing 🥳🎉. 👏🏼 @bmz.de for initiating this crucial #30by30 @unbiodiversity.bsky.social financing tool. @astridschomaker.bsky.social

Meanwhile in 🇳🇦 Namibia...
#NIMPAplus @oceanthayne.bsky.social @rukodzi.bsky.social
Ocean Literacy Toolkit ➡️ ogy.de/9y1w

Great opportunity, great team 🌊✨

Earth Partner Prize - Earth Partner https://earthpartner.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/EPP-Globe-1x1_final.mp4 APPLY HERE The 7th annual Earth Partner Prize (formerly #CreateCOP) is now open for submissions! We invite artists of all na...

7th annual Earth Partner Prize open for submissions...
🧑‍🎨 artists between 14 and 30 years?
🎞️🗽🎨 work that comments on ecological crisis?
💶 8 finalists receive prizes of $10K, $5K or $2K.
earthpartner.com/earth-partne...

Seems like the right time to pay Madagascar a visit!

Looking forward to upcoming trip with dear @blueactionfund.org colleague @oceancecilia.bsky.social, team of @blueventures.bsky.social & @akf-global.bsky.social

➡️Fact sheet: www.blueactionfund.org/wp-content/u...

#BlueActionProjectVisit

Madagascar: a beacon for marine biodiversity 🌊🐠 Madagascar is stepping up efforts to preserve its unique marine biodiversity and protect its ecosystems from current threats.

Meanwhile in Madagascar: 1,5m ha of new MPA now designated with additional 0.8m ha under progress. 🌊🐟🪸

Maybe with @blueventures.bsky.social support, funded by @blueactionfund.org, the unique Barren Isles are next?

#OceanOptimism

www.capmad.com/news/sustain...

Looking forward to today‘s ‚Donor Roundtable on Financing Madagascar Protected Area‘, cohosted by MD Protected Areas and Biodiverdity Fund and KfW.
Hoping for valuable insights and fruitful discussions.
Ready to ensure that the marine ecosystem is not forgotten 💙
@blueactionfund.org #OceanOptimism

Waves of Change, Phase II: Return to Lüderitz - GRID-Arendal News After an eight-hour drive from Windhoek, Hasan and I arrived in Lüderitz and were greeted by the welcome sign we painted last year. The lines were still sharp, a traditional fisherman pulling a boat r...

Waves of Changes, part II.
Wonderful story and pics from @gridarendal.bsky.social ‘s team transforming 🇳🇦Lüderitz through art and awareness for its marine life in cooperation with Namibia Nature Foundation.
NIMPA+ project funded by @blueactionfund.org

#OceanOptimism

news.grida.no/waves-of-cha...

The power of gender equality YouTube video by BV Mada Videos

Gender equality & equity are crucial @blueactionfund.org projects, esp those co-funded by @greenclimate.fund.

Check out insightful video from our @blueventures.bsky.social showing first hand testimony from local community members in 🇲🇬: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfz1... @oceancecilia.bsky.social

Project Website of @blueactionfund.org ‘s funded PaMAR project in Cabo Verde now online, implemented d by @faunaflora.bsky.social
Check it out and sign up to receive hopefully many updates full of #OceanOptimism : www.projeto-pamar.com/en

Excited about this milestone 🥳🥳 Looking forward to see this project now coming to life in implementation 🌊

Big 👞👞 to fill:
🦈 conservation fund is looking for executive director based in 🇺🇸 ➡️ bit.ly/45rPQz1
Exciting opportunity with great team & several co-investments with @blueactionfund.org in 🇿🇦, 🇳🇦, 🇬🇼, 🇨🇻...

** Exciting postdoc opportunity in community-based fisheries co-management **

Come work with Patrick Smallhorn-West at JCU & me at WCS to understand patterns of co-management governance and link these to social and ecological outcomes.

Full job description here: careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Maybe I should diversify bedtime stories? 😅 #preschooldrawings #OceanOptimism