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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · 16d

Happy to add 🐟 @worldfish.bsky.social 🎣 to our list of grantees... #OceanOptimism
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Nuri @oceansteinmann.bsky.social · 17d

Sharing some good news from our work at @blueactionfund.org. We just signed a €4.8 million project to strengthen #MPAs in Bangladesh. We have been developing this project over the past months, and it feels rewarding to now see it become reality. #OceanOptimism

Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · 17d

Yipiiieeh: We ✒️ €4.8million project with @wcs.org & @worldfish.bsky.social to drive marine conservation and #30by30 in Bangladesh 🇧🇩. 👇
#OceanOptimism funded by 🇩🇪 @bmz.de 🇳🇴 @norad.no 🇫🇷 @afd-france.bsky.social 🇮🇪 @irishaid.bsky.social 🇸🇪 @swedishmfa.bsky.social

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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · 20d

The situation is dire for coral reefs worldwide. We need to stop Carbon emissions NOW! 🧪🪸🌎🌐🌊 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

Corals Won’t Survive a Warmer Planet, a New Study Finds

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · 20d

Wow. Congratulations @emilysdarling.bsky.social 🥳🎉. We are happy to support your & @wcs.org 🪸 work in numerous places, such as 🇹🇿, 🇲🇲, 🇸🇧, 🇫🇯... #OceanOptimism

Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 20d

🎉 WCS’s @emilysdarling.bsky.social was named a @forbes.com Sustainability Leader for 2025. bit.ly/3VWl10R

Emily leads coral reef conservation at WCS and is co-founder of MERMAID, a freely available, AI-powered database to ID the most climate-resilient reefs. Used by 2,000+ scientists worldwide. 🌏

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · 21d

Co-hosting today's Myanmar 🇲🇲 Donor Round Table with @wcs.org, @faunaflora.bsky.social & Myanmar Biodiversity Fund (MBF) to exchange on opportunities for on the ground marine conservation, even in challenging times.
🌊info re our investment ➡️ ogy.de/s7vh
🌊grant manager @oceansteinmann.bsky.social

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Nuri @oceansteinmann.bsky.social · 22d

<3 mycorrhizal networks

Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 22d

Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU

Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly

Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · 22d

Upcoming special session at @wiomsa.bsky.social symposium on lessons learned from our €50m EbA-funding window co-funded by @greenclimate.fund ➡️ ogy.de/7zrf
Presentations from @wcs.org @wildtrust.co.za @faunaflora.bsky.social @wwf-ocean.bsky.social @blueventures.bsky.social @unepwcmc.bsky.social ...

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 26d

NEW RESEARCH
Application of spatially robust stereo-BRUV sampling for quantifying fish assemblages in UK marine protected areas

Watch the video to learn more, and find the paper here - esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@owenexeter.bsky.social @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social
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Bri Thompson @bri-thompson.bsky.social · 27d

Common Teen (juv) Oh My Gee that feathering

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Nuri @oceansteinmann.bsky.social · Sep 8

Interesting...#BlueCarbon

'Funders aren’t looking to offset their own emissions and are instead taking what’s called a “non-market approach” to protecting forests under Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement.'

Article by @shokes.bsky.social
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/libe...

Liberia has a new plan to protect its rainforests. Can it work?

Around half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in the small coastal nation of Liberia. They’re home to species like western chimpanzees and pygmy hippos, valuable stands of hardwood — and hund...

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Sep 5

Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature.

All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!!
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Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds

Survey of eight countries finds 82% of people support 30x30 biodiversity target, as progress stalls on protected areas

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Professor Jodie Rummer @physiologyfish.bsky.social · Sep 6

50 years of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act… what were the initial drivers? What does it mean now in a time of 30 by 30? theconversation.com/half-a-centu...

Half a century ago, the Great Barrier Reef was to be drilled for oil. It was saved – for a time

In the late 1960s, oil and gas companies began exploring the Great Barrier Reef for oil. It took campaigners, unionists and a royal commission to protect the reef.

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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you email out to @nature.org & YKAN for their work & achievements in Birdshead 🇮🇩 which we supported in the past years with €2.8million worth of #OceanOptimism
Grant fact sheet 👉 tinyurl.com/59phzs7z
👇📸from @blueactionfund.org project visit in 22 with @oceansteinmann.bsky.social

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Nuri @oceansteinmann.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 Last call! Join tomorrow’s webinar with @wcs.org as they unveil #MERMAID newest beta features with CoralNet — already used in @blueactionfund.org projects. Upload photo quadrats, process with MERMAID AI & visualise your data, all in one place.
zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: MERMAID AI: Image Classification (Beta) Demo Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

MERMAID is excited to invite you to an exclusive live demo of our newly released MERMAID AI: Image Classification (Beta) tool in MERMAID. In this session, we’ll walk you through how to quickly classi...

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · Sep 3

Upcoming in Ethiopia 🇪🇹...
@faunaflora.bsky.social @tangnic.bsky.social @oceansteinmann.bsky.social @greenclimate.fund @oceancecilia.bsky.social

Tanguy @tangnic.bsky.social · Sep 3

Colleagues from @faunaflora.bsky.social and partners such as #Mwambao will take part to #AfricaClimateSummit2 in Ethiopia, next week.
Watch out for our side-event, Tue. next week:
"Locally-led solutions rooted in Nature: Lessons from communities on climate risk and resilience"
@blueactionfund.org

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · Sep 1

Meanwhile in Tanzania 🇹🇿...
@wcs.org @oceansteinmann.bsky.social #FFI
dailynews.co.tz/the-coastal-...

The coastal conservation movement making waves in Tanzania - Daily News

TANGA: ON the serene coasts of Pemba and Tanga, a quiet revolution is unfolding, one tide at a time. Once vulnerable to dwindling fish stocks, poverty and environmental degradation, these Tanzanian co...

dailynews.co.tz

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · Aug 29

Meanwhile in Colombia 🇨🇴... Parametric insurance programme launched to protect Caribbean coral reef. @fondoaccion.bsky.social @oceanweigand.bsky.social
www.captiveinsurancetimes.com/captiveinsur...

Parametric insurance programme launched to protect Caribbean coral reef

Fondo Acción, AXA COLPATRIA, AXA Climate, and WTW launch a joint venture to protect crucial marine life through fast insurance payouts during extreme weather events

www.captiveinsurancetimes.com

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · Aug 22

#HappyFridayNews: Today, we ✒️ €5.4 million project with @envdefensefund.bsky.social to support climate resilient MPAs and small Scale fisheries management in Lampung 🇮🇩.
#OceanOptimism @oceancecilia.bsky.social

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Nuri @oceansteinmann.bsky.social · Aug 20

Looking for input from the #SmallScaleFisheries community 👇
In one of our @blueactionfund.org projects, fishers use boats with no permanent power supply. Makes it difficult to improve surveillance, using GPS, etc..
➡️ Anyone come across practical solutions for powering GPS devices in such contexts?

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Nuri @oceansteinmann.bsky.social · Aug 18

Neue Stürmer WIP?

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Nuri @oceansteinmann.bsky.social · Aug 15

Inspiring work from the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau!
BioGuinea, as part of the PRCM-implemented project funded by @blueactionfund.org, is supporting local communities with initiatives that strengthen livelihoods and well-being.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3NG...

V3 BioGuinea Foundation Bijagós

YouTube video by João Azeredo

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · Aug 15

Exciting new Grant: Today, we 🖋️ €4.8 million project with Coral Triangle Center & Partners to promote #OceanOptimism in Banda Sea 🇮🇩. (1/3)

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ECOP DACH @ecop-dach.bsky.social · Aug 13

🌍 The ECOP DACH coordination team is opening 1 new position as part of our upcoming rotation!
⏲️ Time commitment: ~2 hours/week
Send a short motivation video (max. 2 minutes) introducing yourself and why you’d like to join the team to: [email protected]
📅 Deadline: 01 October 2025

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Nuri @oceansteinmann.bsky.social · Aug 13

In Tanzania 🇹🇿 , Mwambao’s MKUBA Eco-Credit Program empowers women with business skills to grow enterprises and lead in marine conservation, boosting incomes and protecting coasts, with support from @blueactionfund.org

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Nuri @oceansteinmann.bsky.social · Aug 9

Andere Zeiten…aus “Tagebuch 1946-1949, Max Frisch”.
#shiftingbaselines

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