Oceans Worldwide

The Ocean Foundation

(www.oceanfdn.org)

The Ocean Foundation’s Mission is to Support, strengthen, and promote those organizations dedicated to reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world.

The Foundation operates around the world in Anguilla, Australia, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, China, Guatemala, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, St. Kitts, Tanzania, Thailand, United States, among others.

Selected projects include:

Australia- Our organization provided support to The Australian Institute of Marine Sciences’ in the creation of their Coral Geographic project. The project consisted on the creation of an advanced website designed to integrate all biogeographic knowledge of coral into one user-friendly site.

Belize- The Ocean Foundation assisted The Toledo Institute for Development and Environment in the improvement of their surveillance efforts to safeguard the Port Honduras Marine Reserve. The Port Honduras Marine Reserve is a 160m² protected area critical to the biodiversity of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor.

Caribbean- In agreement with the Caribbean Conservation Corporation’s mission, to protect sea turtles and their habitats within the Wider Caribbean and Atlantic, the Ocean Foundation has provided support for their ongoing sea turtle research and conservation activities.

Guatemala- The Ocean Foundation was pleased to support the development of The Mesoamerican Reef Fund (MAR Fund); an environmental fund whose primary goal is to protect the Mesoamerican Reef Ecoregion shared by Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. Our organization also provided the MAR Fund with the necessary funds for the start-up process of their Community Marine Reserves Program. The program was created to diagnose the community fishermen’s groups in the region and their potential and needs for the establishment of community marine reserves.

Thailand- Our organization was happy to provide the New England Aquarium with travel and research support for their Tsunami Coral Reef Damage Assessment Expedition. This expedition was launched to do an assessment on reef damage after the December 26, 2004 Sumatran tsunami in the Indian Ocean. A summarized article of the expedition results appeared in the December 2005 National Geographic issue, Rapid Assessment Survey of Tsunami-affected Reef of Thailand, and received world-wide media coverage.

United States- The Ocean Foundation’s work in the US has focused on education, coral reef conservation, scientific research, bluefin tuna conservation, support for various marine scientific and management meetings, public awareness campaigns, documentary productions, sea turtle conservation.