The largest and deepest of the world’s five oceanic divisions, the Pacific covers more than 30 per cent of the Earth’s surface, an area greater than the amount of the planet that is land. The western Pacific is home to the lowest known point on the seabed, found in the Mariana Trench around 10,935 metres below sea level.
Blue Marine’s work in the Pacific is predominantly focused on two biodiversity hot-spots found on the western seaboard of the Americas. In Mexico, the peninsula state of Baja California creates a formation known locally as Los Dos Mares – the two seas – made up of the Pacific on one side and the Gulf of California on the other. Here we are advocating with our partners for the creation of a gigantic marine park.
Thousands of miles south, Pacific waters also enrich the part of Patagonia found in Chile. Vast, inaccessible and teeming with life, it is one of the last great wildernesses in the world. From its whales to the forests of kelp to that teem with biodiversity, we are attempting to protect the maze of fjords on Chile’s Pacific coast from intensive salmon farming, overfishing and unsustainable development.
On the other side of the Pacific, we are working in the Philippines to turn abandoned aquaculture ponds back into healthy mangrove forests.
Discover more about Blue Marine’s conservation work in this region by exploring the in-depth reports on each individual project compiled by our expert teams.
