Maps? Sharks? Blue Action? Sounds like my kind of fun @oceanknigge.bsky.social On it 🦈
27.01.2026 12:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Maps? Sharks? Blue Action? Sounds like my kind of fun @oceanknigge.bsky.social On it 🦈
27.01.2026 12:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
08.12.2025 14:56 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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...
17.11.2025 23:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
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 🙏
10.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
07.10.2025 10:00 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Meanwhile in 🇳🇦 Namibia...
#NIMPAplus @oceanthayne.bsky.social @rukodzi.bsky.social
Ocean Literacy Toolkit ➡️ ogy.de/9y1w
Great opportunity, great team 🌊✨
30.09.2025 10:25 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
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 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...
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 🌊
15.08.2025 11:28 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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
29.07.2025 19:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1