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Fisher livelihoods depend on the sea, and the sea depends on inclusive fisheries management and decision-making. 💬 Add your voice: Support fisher inclusion in decision-making today:
https://bit.ly/strongfutureforourfisheries

Your voice can help to protect #Belize's sea and everything that calls it home, every livelihood that depends on it, every community that needs it. Your voice holds that power.
Take action with us at https://bit.ly/3Mz2O8H

#Funfact 🦀: The shy face crab gets its name because it literally hides its face. 🫣 It tucks in its legs and folds its large claws over its face, forming a compact, box-like shape for protection when it feels threatened. Which is why it’s also called a box crab!

📷 Jody Leslie

Great blue herons are common along Belize's coastline, where they patiently hunt fish, crabs, and other small prey. You can identify them by their tall stature, long yellowish bill, blue-gray body, and the black stripe that extends from the eye to the back of the head.

📷: Augustine Flores

While we're enjoying cooler temperatures this week, cozied up in our sweaters and blankets, have you ever wondered how marine mammals stay perfectly adapted to their chilly aquatic home?

Marine life, but make it art. 🐢✨ #TurtleTuesday views from a canvas.

🖼️: Kevin Moralez (Moralez Art)

From the New River Lagoon to our coastal mangroves, wetlands sustain lives and strengthen our resilience to climate change. But they face growing threats from clearing & unsustainable development. #WorldWetlandsDay reminds us to protect what protects us.

Views like this remind us why we love and protect Belize.

Happy Friday, ocean lovers!

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#TBT In 2017, Belizeans joined hands nationwide to stand against offshore oil in #Belize. Proof that people power can protect our sea and our future. Join us as we continue to call for our voices in decisions that shape our future: https://bit.ly/4gfPUW6

Your voice should help shape Belize’s future. 🌊✊

👉 Join the movement at belize.oceana.org

Healthy coastal and marine ecosystems are vital to coral reef survival. Protecting them is a shared responsibility. Support conservation efforts — our future depends on the choices we make today. 🌊🐠

A healthy sea starts with listening to the people who depend on it, especially our local fishers.

Belize's fishers deserve transparent data, stronger enforcement, and a real voice in fisheries management. 🌊🐟 Show your support to their call: bit.ly/strongfuture...

Belize is home to an array of marine life and remarkably biologically rich ecosystems. Protecting our marine treasures is essential to sustaining fisheries, supporting coastal communities, and preserving the natural heritage that defines our identity.

🎥: Go Slow Tours

Oceana was proud to join partners for Little Stewards in Action, engaging 100 students at Holy Family R.C. School in #Hopkins on protecting #Belize’s blue future. The day ended with a community cleanup collecting 60+ bags of waste, proving stewardship starts with our youth.

Ready to turn your love for the ocean into action? 🌊💙
Become an Oceana Wavemaker and help us create change that ripples across our sea. Sign up and make waves with us! https://bit.ly/45XbyfV

Belize’s beauty thrives when we care for it together. Take action with us at belize.oceana.org
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#toloveandprotectbelize #belize #yourfutureyoursay #thrivetogether #oceanabelize

How can Belize strengthen its fisheries? By putting fishers at the center of decision-making.
Fisher-led decisions are grounded in knowledge, lived experience, and stewardship of our sea. 🌊🎣
Support fishers' call for transparency in decision-making: https://bit.ly/strongfutureforourfisheries

Did you know this about nurse sharks? Check out https://bit.ly/48Y8stX to learn more!

Mangroves protect Belize’s coast by reducing erosion, buffering storms, storing carbon, and serving as vital fish nurseries. Protecting them safeguards communities like Placencia (pictured here) and the marine life they depend on. 🌱🌊

On December 30, 2017, the Petroleum Operations Maritime Zone Moratorium Act became law.
We call it "the People's Law" for good reason - a reflection of the determined voices of Belizeans who stand for the protection of our waters from offshore oil exploration and drilling.

Rise and shine your way into the last Monday of the year!

✨ Happy Holidays ✨ - from your Oceana Belize team

A YEAR OF WAVES WITH YOU We’d like to think of 2025 as a year of empowering voices for change. We were able to strengthen our partnerships and expand our outreach efforts through engagement with community groups, in classroom...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆: Before 2025 ends, we take a look back on an amazing year of advocacy and action with you. 💙
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Happy Friday, ocean lovers! 🏝️ So blessed to call views like these an everyday gift in Belize.

📷: Ameera Marin

The holidays are a time for gratitude and reflection. Belizeans share a deep connection to the sea: a source of food, jobs, culture, and natural beauty. Protecting our marine resources is how we honor that connection and ensure a healthy sea for the future. Take action here: bit.ly/4pGKdpn

At Oceana, we're proud to be part of marine conservation efforts in Belize, advocating with Belizeans and championing science-based policies that protect our sea and the livelihoods that depend on it for generations to come. Visit bit.ly/3vLutEL to find out how you can take action with us.

Like many other species, the parrotfish plays an important role in maintaining the health of our reef. Their constant grazing with their parrot-like beaks gives coral space to breathe and grow, just like weeding helps flowers flourish in a garden.

Belize's fishers are more than workers, they're guardians of the sea. Every fisheries decision affects their communities. Stand with fishing communities calling for fairness and transparency in how they're represented at the decision table: https://bit.ly/strongfutureforourfisheries

Every action matters when it comes to protecting and preserving our sea. Join us in calling for the constitutional right to be consulted about the future of our marine treasures, our future: bit.ly/43XmEAz

Dennis has played a significant role in helping to shape national conservation policy through decades of dedicated advocacy and has made a lasting impact on the global fly-fishing community. He leads with purpose and heart. Meet our Ocean Hero, Dennis Garbutt! belize.oceana.org/blog/meet-oc...