@oceanthayne.bsky.social
Grant Manager @BlueActionFund
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 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 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 📌 0Big 👞👞 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 📌 1Follow @projectovito.bsky.social to
learn more about this NGOs important marine and coastal work done in Cabo Verde on Fogo and Brava Island
Proudly funded by @blueactionfund.org in the context of project PaMAR! #OceanOptimism
@projectovito.bsky.social @uwiceland.bsky.social
02.07.2025 08:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌊3 yrs @blueactionfund.org – never a dull moment!✨
- Managed 5 grants across 4 countries
- Project visits to MD, NAM & CV
- Collected & analysed site + MPAGuide data for 180+ sites
- Learned the ropes of mapping
- Worked with an amazing team💙
And above all: a ton of #OceanOptimism
Excited for more.
Meanwhile in Madagascar…impactful @blueventures.bsky.social story on learning exchanges between fishing communities from 🇲🇬 and 🇰🇪, funded by @blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism
explore.blueventures.org/madagascar-t...
Sounds like a great opportunity for students - @uwiceland.bsky.social for example 😎
30.05.2025 16:57 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Heart of Conservation Initiative
🌊 1-2 million USD 2026-2030
🌊 On-the-ground projects
🌊 Focus IPLC
Deadline for EoI June 30 2025
www.worldwildlife.org/pages/wwf-ge...
Meanwhile in Honduras 🇭🇳...
Excellent example of a grievance mechanism...👇 Grant fact sheet for our €4.9 million project with @rare.org ➡️https://ogy.de/2lt5
Meanwhile in Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 - funded by @blueactionfund.org
#OceanOptimism
Who would have guessed?
Good thing that @blueactionfund.org, we collect this data for all our almost 300 sites at project start - and end!
#OceanOptimism #MPAGuide #EffectiveMPAs
Inspired and grateful for teaching future marine managers. Good discussions and a lot of #oceanoptimism
Takk fyrir @uwiceland.bsky.social and @blueactionfund.org 🙏❤️🇮🇸
What a day! After an inspiring morning at Icelands Ministry for Foreign Affairs, I drove through the stunning westfjords - returning 10 years after my time as a student @uwiceland.bsky.social , now as a guest lecturer on MPAs and part of @blueactionfund.org
A full-circle moment I won’t forget.
Getting ready ✈️🇮🇸👩🏫 🥳 @blueactionfund.org @uwiceland.bsky.social
09.05.2025 14:54 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0How awesome is that? Well deserved @oceanweigand.bsky.social
09.05.2025 14:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Save the date: #CoastalClimateHeroes 9 June #UNOC3, featuring several of our grants incl. in 🇧🇿 & 🇲🇬.
Cohosted with @wwf.de @bmz.de & @giz.de
Changing times politically in 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇦 but some things stay the same like us @blueactionfund.org enjoying to welcome grantees in Berlin - this time Namibia Nature Foundation - hopefully soon joining Bluesky! #oceanoptimism
05.05.2025 16:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
3x @blueactionfund.org at next week's 🇩🇪 Ocean Conference hosted by @bmuv.de:
🌊 MPA funding deep-dive with @oceanweigand.bsky.social
🌊 #30by30 panel with @oceanknigge.bsky.social
🌊 & Climate Change panel with former board chair @heikehenn.bsky.social from @bmz.de
We are looking forward to it!
