Marine Life & Conservation
Join Project AWARE In Celebrating What Divers Everywhere Love About The Ocean
Following Valentine’s Day on Saturday, Project AWARE are feeling the love – the love for our oceans – and they want to share it with you.
Share your favourite ocean pic on Instagram or Twitter and inspire others to want to protect the underwater world in the #WhatILoveAbouttheOcean campaign.
Here’s what you can do:
- Share your favourite ocean picture on Twitter or Instagram using#WhatILoveAbouttheOcean. Your image will be automatically added to the campaign photo grid.
- Don’t have a Twitter or Instagram account? Don’t worry – you can still participate by adding your photo directly to Project AWARE’s #WhatILoveAbouttheOcean grid. Don’t forget to add a caption.
- Make a donation to help protect what you love for future generations.
The ocean is an incredible resource – it gives us life, food, recreation and is home to some of the most majestic and mindblowing species on the planet. Yet only two percent of our ocean is protected with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declaring that at least 30 percent of the world’s ocean should be protected as marine parks where fishing and mining are banned.
“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.”
That famous saying, by the Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum, sums up how love plays a vital role in inspiring people to take action. Through educational outreach and their shared passion for the underwater world, Project AWARE empower the dive community to better understand the threats facing our oceans and they inspire them to take action to protect it.
Use the power of love during Project AWARE’s #WhatIloveAbouttheOcean campaign. Project AWARE will spread the love far and wide by featuring some of your best pics to inspire others to love and protect the ocean.
For more information about Project AWARE visit www.projectaware.org.
Marine Life & Conservation
Double Bubble for Basking Sharks
The Shark Trust is excited to announce that, for two more days only, all donations, large or small, will be doubled in the Big Give Green Match Fund!
Donate to Basking in Nature: Sighting Giants
The Shark Trust is hoping to raise £10k which will be doubled to £20k. This will go towards Basking in Nature: Sighting Giants. And they need YOUR help to reach they’re goal.
The Shark Trust’s citizen science project is to monitor and assess basking sharks through sightings; encouraging data collection, community engagement, and promoting nature accessibility. This initiative aims to enhance health and wellbeing by fostering a deeper connection with British Sharks.
Campaign Aims
- Increase citizen science reporting of Basking Sharks and other shark sightings to help inform shark and ray conservation.
- Provide educational talks about the diverse range of sharks and rays in British waters and accessible identification guides!
- Create engaging and fun information panels on how to ID the amazing sharks and rays we have on our doorstep! These can be used on coastal paths around the Southwest. With activities and information on how you can make a difference for sharks and rays!
- Promote mental wellbeing through increasing time in nature and discovering the wonders beneath the waves!
Donate, and double your impact. Click Here
Marine Life & Conservation
Leading UK-based shark conservation charity, the Shark Trust, is delighted to announce tour operator Diverse Travel as a Corporate Patron
Corporate Patrons provide a valuable boost to the work of The Shark Trust. The Trust team works globally to safeguard the future of sharks, and their close cousins, the skates and rays, engaging with a global network of scientists, policymakers, conservation professionals, businesses and supporters to further shark conservation.
Specialist tour operator Diverse Travel has operated since 2014 and is committed to offering its guests high quality, sustainable scuba diving holidays worldwide. Working together with the Shark Trust will enable both organisations to widen engagement and encourage divers and snorkellers to actively get involved in shark conservation.
“Sharks are truly at the heart of every diver and at Diverse Travel, we absolutely share that passion. There is nothing like seeing a shark in the wild – it’s a moment that stays with you forever!” says Holly Bredin, Sales & Marketing Manager, Diverse Travel.
“We’re delighted to celebrate our 10th year of business by becoming a Corporate Patron of the Shark Trust. This is an exciting partnership for Diverse and our guests. We will be donating on behalf of every person who books a holiday with us to contribute towards their vital shark conservation initiatives around the world. We will also be working together with the Trust to inspire divers, snorkellers and other travellers to take an active role – at home and abroad – in citizen science projects and other activities.”
Paul Cox, CEO of The Shark Trust, said:
“It’s an exciting partnership and we’re thrilled to be working with Diverse Travel to enable more divers and travellers to get involved with sharks and shark conservation. Sharks face considerable conservation challenges but, through collaboration and collective action, we can secure a brighter future for sharks and their ocean home. This new partnership takes us one more valuable step towards that goal.”
For more information about the Shark Trust visit their website here.
For more about Diverse Travel click here.
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