Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement extends ‘no take’ zone around the wildlife-rich archipelago.
23 March 2026
Five years after a trawling ban by the Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority, the Sussex seabed shows early recovery, with mussel beds returning and fish populations beginning to rebuild.
18 March 2026
Learn how we can save our planet by protecting 30 per cent of our ocean by 2030.
06 June 2025
Theo James plays a diner at a smart restaurant who orders a seemingly sustainable fish course. But his evening takes a horrifying turn when an enormous net of rotting bycatch and oil is dumped on him and his table as the ‘extras’ to his “sustainable” plaice.
08 June 2025
BBC Radio Jersey interviewed Blue Marine Foundation on the expansion of Jersey’s marine protected area network.
13 March 2026
Jersey has approved one of the most ambitious marine protection plans in the British Isles, nearly quadrupling the area of its seas protected from damaging fishing practices.
12 March 2026
Blue Marine is dedicated to protecting and restoring life in the ocean. Our mission is to see at least 30 per cent of the ocean protected by 2030 and the whole ocean sustainably managed. We support low-impact fishing and equitable use of the ocean and address overfishing – one of the world’s biggest environmental challenges.
4.9M
sq km of ocean under protection, management or commitments
101
marine protected areas influenced
+367K
stakeholders supported
75
active projects with 266 current partners
Blue Marine is working to tackle the emptying of oceans of life, one of the largest, most pressing and yet most solvable environmental challenges we face.
Clare Brook
Blue Marine Foundation CEO
The Convex Seascape Survey is a pioneering five-year research project that is attempting to unlock one of the great mysteries of our time – the role of seabed carbon in mitigating climate change.
The Solent Seascape Project aims to recover a dynamic network of habitats, where ocean meets coastline, as the first project of its kind in the UK.
Greece is transforming its conservation status with a commitment to protect 32 per cent of its waters by 2030. Blue Marine supports ocean protection here across ten different projects.
The reef ecosystem of the island nation is the seventh largest in the world and the most extensive in the Indian Ocean. Blue Marine is working with our locally affiliated NGO to make the reefs more resistant to climate change.
This film showcases the long term conservation journey of St Helena, where Blue Marine Foundation has been working closely with local partners to secure and sustain meaningful marine protection.
09 June 2025
AMORGORAMA is a unique example of cooperation between fishers, scientists, institutions, civil society, local and national authorities with the common goal of protecting the sea and the people that depend on her.
13 May 2025
A compelling documentary that demonstrates how former fishers in Turkey have become rangers, who patrol a Marine Protected Area in the Mediterranean to ensure fish populations can thrive for generations to come.
03 April 2025
Ascension Island is a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, a thousand miles from the nearest land. Since 2019, it has been home to a 100% marine protected area (MPA) of 445,000 sq. km — the second largest no-take zone in the Atlantic and one of the largest in the world.
13 May 2025
Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement extends ‘no take’ zone around the wildlife-rich archipelago.
23 March 2026
Stay informed with the latest top ocean stories—climate impacts, marine life discoveries, coastal policies, and innovations in ocean conservation.
20 March 2026
Five years after a trawling ban by the Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority, the Sussex seabed shows early recovery, with mussel beds returning and fish populations beginning to rebuild.
18 March 2026
BBC Radio Jersey interviewed Blue Marine Foundation on the expansion of Jersey’s marine protected area network.
13 March 2026
Jersey has approved one of the most ambitious marine protection plans in the British Isles, nearly quadrupling the area of its seas protected from damaging fishing practices.
12 March 2026
The area is a protected North Sea nature area, but the Dutch administration currently permits bottom trawling in majority of the area, harming threatened species which continue to live in the area.
11 March 2026
President Gabriel Boric has signed a decree that fully protects 337,000 sq km of the waters around the Juan Fernández and Nazca-Desventuradas marine parks.
10 March 2026
FOI requests have revealed that the UK government is set to cut, or drastically reduce, programmes designed to protect nature and the environment in developing countries.
03 March 2026
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