BioProtect Project

📺AR series: Israel 🇮🇱

Eilat adopts #BioProtect tools:
🛠️ PPGIS Analyser, ABM-DSF, Marine Planner, Recommendations on Governance

To achieve:
➡️ Community-led planning
➡️ Climate & reef resilience
➡️ Ecosystem-based management

🧐Interested to learn more? ➡️ bitly.cx/W6ad

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

📺AR series: Israel 🇮🇱

Eilat in Israel, hosts one of the northernmost coral reefs 🪸 rich in marine biodiversity!

With 3M tourists/year🧳& urban pressures, this unique marine ecosystem needs urgent, ecosystem based action.

👉https://bitly.cx/zu7T

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

YouTube video by Ross Edgley WE SWAM HALFWAY AROUND ICELAND... 500 MILES TO GO!

In the 📽️ Ross Edgley 🏊‍♂️(3:25) and Solomon Weston 🧑‍🔬(34:09) explain how #eDNA sampling works and how it allows researchers to identify the organisms present at a location!

#BioProtect is excited to contribute to this mission!
👉https://bitly.cx/r1msL

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

Watch here: bitly.cx/asb8

📺AR series: #NewZealand 🇳🇿

🛡️We’re protecting #Nelson/#Whakatū’s coastal - marine habitats with #BioProtect tools:
- BioProtect CO₂ Calculator
- BioProtect ABM-DSF
- BioProtect Marine Planner
- BioProtect Biodiversity Toolbox

Interested to learn more?👉https://bitly.cx/mocM
#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

📺AR series: #NewZealand 🇳🇿

Nelson, NZ's coastal ecosystems are under threat from climate change & habitat loss.

#BioProtect solutions through a #KiUtaKiTai approach aims to restore connectivity & support marine planning.

➡️https://bitly.cx/h1if

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU #ABM

🗺️Delighted to present the BioProtect Marine Planner powered by a #GIS-enabled database and a #PPGIS data-gathering tool at the d-real #SummerSchool in @uniofgalway.bsky.social!

🙏Thanks to the organisers & engaged PhD candidates!

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU #BioProtect #BioProtectMarinePlanner

The @allatlantico.bsky.social Photo Competition invites 🫵 to share 📸 capturing traditions, Indigenous knowledge, and coastal community life: from music & dance 💃 to #fishing 🎣 and crafts 🧶

🌍 Submit your story now!

📆 Deadline for submissions: 15 August 2025
ℹ️ bit.ly/4ktrYjM

🗺️Help Map the Ocean with #BioProtect!

Live by the sea? Rely on it for work or life?
💬 Tell us how you use the ocean in Celtic Seas, Dunmore East & Tralee Bay & what matters most.

🎙️Your voice matters!
📝 Take the survey now: bitly.cx/MJc36

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

The Marine Institute showcasing the BioProtect Project during the European Maritime Day in Cork

🌊European Maritime Day in #Cork was such a great chance to share #BioProtect and connect across Europe!

🤔 Still reflecting on the great discussions on #marineplanning!

🙏 Grateful to work with University of Galway and local communities on the future of the Celtic Seas!

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

📺DS series: Portuguese Azores

In this DS, #BioProtect is:
🪸Testing climate & fishing impacts on deep-sea octocorals
📊Using stress-response data in species models under IPCC scenarios
🗺️Mapping human & climate pressures to design resilient MPA networks

➡️ bitly.cx/8JaEw

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

📺DS series: Portuguese Azores

🌋The #Azores EEZ is a #deepsea hotspot shaped by volcanic terrain and rich in marine life, from whales to coral reefs!🪸
🌡️Yet, the effects of climate change remain largely unknown.

➡️https://bioprotect-project.eu/demonstration-sites/portuguese-azores/

#MissionOcean

📺DS series: NW Portuguese Margin

#BioProtect in 🇵🇹 develops and demonstrates tools for marine planning➕biodiversity mapping with local fishers input and citizen science!

🧐Curious to learn more? ➡️https://bitly.cx/H1Db

#LEK #VME #eDNA #Portugal #MissionOcean #HorizonEU

📺DS series: NW Portuguese Margin

#Porto & #Aveiro #canyons are #biodiversityhotspots, yet largely unknown!

#BioProtect maps these deep-sea habitats & co-designs #AreaBasedManagement tools with fishers to protect #VMEs & support sustainable fisheries.

bitly.cx/ZTif

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

The harbour of Dunmore East, one of the Irish local sites where the BioProtect tools will be used.

📺DS series: #Ireland🇮🇪

#BioProtect in the Irish Demo Site, connects marine protection from basin to local scale, using #nestedapproach ,#PPGIS, #CommunitiesofPractice, and #ecosystemmodelling!

🧐Curious to learn more?➡️https://shorturl.at/Whxl8

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

📣 Webinar Alert‼️
📆 17 July ⏰ 13.00 CEST

ℹ️ The @emarineboard.bsky.social will hold a webinar to discuss Marine Protected Areas #MPA in the European Union, with speaker Juliette Aminian Biquet from CCMAR @cnrs.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social france.bsky.social!
👉 Find out more & register:
bit.ly/4k87Pjm

📺DS series: Ireland

From deep offshore canyons to #kelpforests and #saltmarshes, Ireland's waters are biodiversity hotspots!

However, these ecosystems face mounting pressure from human use & #ORE!

🧐➡️ bioprotect-project.eu/demonstratio...

#MissionOcean #BioProtect #CelticSea #Ireland

🏊‍♂️ In May 2025, Ross Edgley started a historic 1,000-mile swim around Iceland!

Ross, supported by #BioProtect and in collaboration with @mfri.bsky.social and Matís, collects #eDNA samples to reveal marine life!🧬🐋

Curious to learn more? ➡️ bitly.cx/QUNCF

#GreatIcelandicSwim #MissionOcean #HorizonEU

Lofoten, Norway by Tobias Bjorkli

📺Meet our DS series: Norway

🪿Lofoten’s rich marine life, spawning grounds, seabird colonies & seals, is under threat due to human pressure and climate change!
#BioProtect is working to preserve this unique ecosystem.

🧐Curious to learn more: ➡️ bitly.cx/rywFv

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

#HappeningSoon 🤗

📆 11 June ⏰ 13.00-15.00 CET
📍 RV Meteor, Nice 🇫🇷
👉 Don't miss our event at #UNOC3
✍️ Register here: bit.ly/43M4elV

#MPA #MissionOcean #SaveOurSeas 🌎 🌊

📺DS series: Iceland

🔧 #BioProtect employs tools like autonomous #eDNA samplers and #ImageAnnotation to monitor #MarineBiodiversity and #InvasiveSpecies in Iceland's waters.

🧐Curious to learn more?
➡️https://bioprotect-project.eu/demonstration-sites/iceland/

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

🌊 This spring, cousin projects #MeCCAM & #OCCAM
launched to tackle #climatechange in #fisheries & #aquaculture. 🐟
#BioProtect partners are also involved!

🫂Together, we aim for sustainable ocean food systems that adapt to a changing climate.

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

📺Take a tour of our DS series!

Iceland🐋

🪸Iceland's EEZ is a biodiversity hotspot with unique habitats like cold water coral reefs and maerl beds!

🌡️However, climate change and human activities pose significant threats.

Curious to learn more?➡️https://bitly.cx/P7QXH

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

🤗 Join #BioProtect at the 🌊 UN Ocean Decade 2025 METEOR side-event for a fun game session where you will receive all the clues needed to design an #MPA corridor! 🧩

🤩 The best part? It's aboard a ship! 🛳️
😉 Don’t miss it!

✍️ Register here: bit.ly/43M4elV

#UNOC3 #MissionOcean #SaveOurSeas 🌎 🦈

🚀 Our newsletter 🗞️ is out today 🥳
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#MissionOcean #EUMissions #BioProtect 💙

🍃 Today we are celebrating #BiodiversityDay!🌎

ℹ️ #BioProtect will provide innovative, replicable & scalable ecosystem-based solutions for the protection and restoration of #biodiversity in European seas!

💙 Learn more about us & be part of the change!
🔗 bit.ly/4jc2EOM

#MissionOcean #EUMissions 🌊

🏊 Swimmer #RossEdgley is taking on 1,000 miles in 100 days - alongside killer whales 🐋 through 130ft waves 🇮🇸 🌊
🧑‍🔬 This epic #swimforscience is also an innovative #citizenscience mission‼️
🧬 Ross will collect #eDNA for 🧐 in #BioProtect in 🤝 with
@mfri.bsky.social & @matisiceland.bsky.social
🤗 Coming 🔜

The Super Swimmer Ross Edgley plans to swim 1,000 Miles in 100 Days in cooperartion with MFRI for the sake of science and in connection with the BioProtect project.
More here: www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new...
#DNAoceanresearch @bioprotectproject.bsky.social
Photo: Courtesy of the BBC

✨ What a blast we had in Iceland! 🇮🇸 🥳

🤝 This #BioProtect Annual Meeting had it all:

✅ collaborative atmosphere
✅ great team spirit
✅ incredible amounts of fun! 🤗

💙 Proud to be part of this project!

🙏 Thank you to our hosts & all partners for their participation!

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU 🌊🐋

#BioProtect partners got really creative 🎨 this morning with a storyboarding workshop on Day 3️⃣ of our 1st Annual Meeting! 👏

🤗 Together we are co-creating our Demonstration Site Videos! 📽️🌟

#MissionOcean #HorizonEU

I’m excited to be brought on to a small part of the amazing @bioprotectproject.bsky.social 🌊 Here’s to participatory GIS with knowledge holders and community members!