On track to disburse > €20m of #OceanOptimism in 2026. Support to @unbiodiversity.bsky.social 🌊 #30x30 funded by 🇩🇪 @bmz.de 🇳🇴 @norad.no 🇸🇪 @swedishmfa.bsky.social 🇫🇷 @afd-france.bsky.social 🇮🇪 @irishaid.bsky.social & @greenclimate.fund

Yesterday in Hamburg: Afterwork talk on economy, #SDG14 and #30x30. #OceanOptimism @blueactionfund.org

🎉🥳 #OceanOptimism

#OceanGrants 💶🌊 sponsored by @saveourseas.bsky.social 💙 #OceanOptimism

40,000 hand-raised baby corals bring hope of restoring Great Barrier Reef Tens of thousands of baby corals, grown on land or settled from wild spawn slicks, have been transplanted onto the Great Barrier Reef.

No alternative to continue fighting #ForCorals 🪸. We wouldn't give up the rainforest neither. #OceanOptimism
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

10% milestone reached 🎉🥳: In the last year, #MPAs coverage increased by around 1% to 9.75%. With most recent designations in 🇨🇱 & 🇧🇷, we should have surpassed the 10% Milestone (& thus reached former Aichi Target) 🕺💃. #OceanOptimism #30x30 #COP17

🥳🎉3 new #MPAs in 🇩🇪.
Detailed descriptions about the sites, process etc. (in German) ➡️ ogy.de/eh6k #OceanOptimism #30x30 @umweltministerium.de @oceanunger.bsky.social

3 new MPAs in 🇩🇪 Baltic Sea. Well done Minister Goldschmidt
#OceanOptimism #30x30 @gruenesh.bsky.social @steffi-lemke.de @baltica.bsky.social @janalbrecht.bsky.social @goering-eckardt.de

Gerne Meeresschutz, starke Stimme im @bundestag.de geben und @steffi-lemke.de unterstützen, diesen einzufordern. Sagt Bescheid, wenn ich helfen kann. 🌊🐳@blueactionfund.org #OceanOptimism #COP17

How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures Nets equipped with water bottles and other tricks can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others

Very nice article on bycatch by @gennarotomma.bsky.social including lots of solutions - much more to do but progress definitely being made. #OceanOptimism knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

hand holding tiny hermit crabs

That some people REALLY care about (and for) hermit crabs is my news to me good news fir Mar 26 #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...

Programme director @oceanweigand.bsky.social presenting our EUR 55m eba funding window in the Western Indian Ocean. #OceanOptimism

Thanks @oceanunger.bsky.social for opening & setting the scene for 🌊 EbA event co-organised with @blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism @umweltministerium.de @bmz.de

New Study Highlights Success in Open-Coast Seagrass Restoration New research led by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is shining a spotlight on one of the ocean’s most overlooked habitats: seagrass.

A restoration success in the more challenging open coast is my news to me good news for Mar 25 #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism today.ucsd.edu/story/new-st...

#30x30 #OceanOptimism

The world’s oldest wild bird has a new grandchick Biologists have been tracking Wisdom, the roughly 75-year-old Laysan albatross, since the 1950s.

Totally relate - being a grandmother brings joy that words can't capture... Congratulations #Wisdom #OceanOptimism www.popsci.com/environment/...

Pharmaceutical companies move away from horseshoe crab biomedical testing Amgen and Abbott are ditching horseshoe crab blood for synthetic alternatives — a win for a 450-million-year-old species edging toward extinction.

These lovely creatures adorned the beaches of my childhood but are now rare. I have been waiting for this announcement for years! My news to me good news for Mar 16 #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

High level 🌊 exchange in the 🇨🇭 🏔️🏔️, incl. @sylviaearle.bsky.social and so many others. Thanks #VillarsInstitute for concerning. #OceanOptimism

Following Lizzies brilliant interview I was then delighted to be invited onto BBC Radio Scotland to highlight the #OceanOptimism that is our incredible volunteers recording a 23% drop in litter on Scottish beaches.

Excited to join #VillarsOceanForum next week, bringing together leaders from science, policy, business, and exploration to tackle the urgent challenges facing our ocean
🌊. #OceanOptimism #VillarsInstitute

It’s Friday—start your weekend with something uplifting. After rescue and treatment at The Marine Mammal Center for a painful fishing line injury, California sea lion Bond is headed back to the wild. Watch his release—and the moment recovery turns into freedom.
#OceanHoptimism #OceanOptimism

The Spiritual Movement Saving a Gentle Giant In India, whale shark worshippers are cultivating a form of conservation as powerful and sublime as the species itself.

Whale sharks revered in #India is my news to me good news for Mar. 12 #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism reasonstobecheerful.world/whale-sharks...

One million square kilometres of ocean gains full protection in Chile - Oceanographic Chile expands full protection across 946,571km² of ocean around the Juan Fernández and Nazca-Desventuradas marine parks.

Pure #OceanOptimism: 🇨🇱 granted full protection to 360,000km² of 🌊 around Juan Fernández & Nazca-Desventuradas marine parks, creating one of the world’s largest fully MPA & surpassing 50% ocean protection. #30x30
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/one-mil...

The German City That Defied McDonald's and Dumped 'To-Go' Waste Tübingen's hard-won crusade is a lesson in how to deflect single-use packaging from landfills — and life itself.

plastics are a hard problem so successes are welcome. My news to me good news for Mar 11 #EarthOptimism #OceanOptimism reasonstobecheerful.world/tubingen-ger...

Champions of the Earth UN’s highest environmental honour celebrates outstanding figures from the public and private sectors and from civil society

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@unep.org's Champions of the Earth award focus this year on leaders at the forefront of ocean conservation 🌊🪸🦈🐠🌱 #OceanGrants 💶🌊 #OceanOptimism
www.unep.org/championsofe...

Sex and the sea snail: how a plucky marine lab brought a mollusk back from the brink Once abundant in California, the white abalone had all but vanished. Now, thanks to an innovative breeding program, it’s staged a remarkable comeback

#OceanOptimism www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Latest from South Africa 🇿🇦...
@wildtrust.co.za @oceanthyrza.bsky.social #OceanOptimism

One of the projects @blueactionfund.org is heavily invested in. Fact sheet about our €4.1million grant ➡️ ogy.de/5w9s
#OceanOptimism @fondoaccion.bsky.social @orraanews.bsky.social @globalfundforcoral.bsky.social

Shark Conservation Fund's 2026 Small #OceanGrants 💶🌊
🦈 up to $25,000
🦈 management reforms, protection of habitats, endemic shark & ray species.
🦈 Deadline 31 March
More info ➡️ bit.ly/4spMMNG #OceanOptimism
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social @elasmoproject.bsky.social @sharkcolin.bsky.social @cms.int

Markus Knigge - Blue Action Fund from global pledges to local actions | Blue Builders

Behind the scenes of funding 🌊 #30x30...
@blueactionfund.org 💶🌊 #OceanGrants #OceanOptimism
shows.acast.com/blue-builder...