Overfishing has blighted the waters of the Aeolian Islands. But Blue Marine is supporting the local community in establishing a Marine Protected Area that could restore their once–bountiful seas. 

From kelp forests and cold-water corals to blue whales and orcas, Patagonia teems with exceptional biodiversity. Blue Marine works with multiple partners to keep this wild place wild.

Blue Marine has helped establish the first Marine Protected Area in this vast inland lake – home to the critically endangered sturgeon, whose ancestors swam with the dinosaurs.

From kelp forests and cold-water corals to blue whales and orcas, Chile teems with exceptional biodiversity. Blue Marine works with multiple partners to keep this wild place wild.

Warm and cool Mediterranean currents combine to upwell productive water, which leads to high biodiversity.  

The six islands of the Dutch Caribbean waters are host to a huge variety of species. In recent years, their governments and local conservation organisations have made major ocean conservation commitments — and we are supporting them to achieve these.  

Blue Marine’s innovative programme in Greece aims to recover fish stocks, protect endangered species and preserve carbon-trapping seagrass beds. 

Blue Marine’s innovative programme in Greece aims to recover fish stocks, protect endangered species and preserve carbon-trapping seagrass beds.  

Almost two–thirds of the ocean is beyond national jurisdiction — can a new global treaty help protect it? 

Many of Italy’s estimated 14,000 marine species, are found nowhere else on Earth. Our very own Italian Job is a network of marine protected areas that offer them a haven.

Blue Marine has ten projects in Italy, stretching Tuscany, Sardinia and Puglia to Sicily. In 2023, protected the largest known aggregation of eagle rays in Sicily, saw the return of monk seals to Tuscany, worked to install anti-trawling devices around a marine protected area (MPA) in Puglia, ghost nets in Sardinia preserving coralligenous habitats, and protected sandbar sharks in South Sicily.  

The Maldives’ atolls are the jewels of the Indian Ocean. Its reef ecosystem is the seventh largest in the world and the largest in the Indian Ocean