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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrating grant portfolio of our sister fund @legacylandscapes.bsky.social with representatives of all supported protected sites. Amazing 🥳🎉. 👏🏼 @bmz.de for initiating this crucial #30by30 @unbiodiversity.bsky.social financing tool. @astridschomaker.bsky.social

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · 1d

Meanwhile in 🇳🇦 Namibia...
#NIMPAplus @oceanthayne.bsky.social @rukodzi.bsky.social
Ocean Literacy Toolkit ➡️ ogy.de/9y1w

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · 8d

Great opportunity, great team 🌊✨

Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · 8d

If you want to make a difference in the marine world 🌊🪸🐟... We are looking for a programme assistant (part time) based in in Berlin #OceanOptimism. ogy.de/6jtx

Programme Assistant (m/f/x) - part time

BLUE ACTION FUND is searching for a:Programme AssistantREPORTS TO: Executive DirectorLOCATION: BerlinSALARY: CompetitiveCLOSING DATE: 2 November 2025START DATE: As soon as possibleCONTRACT: Part time ...

ogy.de

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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · 9d

7th annual Earth Partner Prize open for submissions...
🧑‍🎨 artists between 14 and 30 years?
🎞️🗽🎨 work that comments on ecological crisis?
💶 8 finalists receive prizes of $10K, $5K or $2K.
earthpartner.com/earth-partne...

Earth Partner Prize - Earth Partner

https://earthpartner.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/EPP-Globe-1x1_final.mp4 APPLY HERE The 7th annual Earth Partner Prize (formerly #CreateCOP) is now open for submissions! We invite artists of all na...

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · 21d

Seems like the right time to pay Madagascar a visit!

Looking forward to upcoming trip with dear @blueactionfund.org colleague @oceancecilia.bsky.social, team of @blueventures.bsky.social & @akf-global.bsky.social

➡️Fact sheet: www.blueactionfund.org/wp-content/u...

#BlueActionProjectVisit

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · 22d

Meanwhile in Madagascar: 1,5m ha of new MPA now designated with additional 0.8m ha under progress. 🌊🐟🪸

Maybe with @blueventures.bsky.social support, funded by @blueactionfund.org, the unique Barren Isles are next?

#OceanOptimism

www.capmad.com/news/sustain...

Madagascar: a beacon for marine biodiversity 🌊🐠

Madagascar is stepping up efforts to preserve its unique marine biodiversity and protect its ecosystems from current threats.

madagasikara.fr

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · 22d

Looking forward to today‘s ‚Donor Roundtable on Financing Madagascar Protected Area‘, cohosted by MD Protected Areas and Biodiverdity Fund and KfW.
Hoping for valuable insights and fruitful discussions.
Ready to ensure that the marine ecosystem is not forgotten 💙
@blueactionfund.org #OceanOptimism

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · 29d

Waves of Changes, part II.
Wonderful story and pics from @gridarendal.bsky.social ‘s team transforming 🇳🇦Lüderitz through art and awareness for its marine life in cooperation with Namibia Nature Foundation.
NIMPA+ project funded by @blueactionfund.org

#OceanOptimism

news.grida.no/waves-of-cha...

Waves of Change, Phase II: Return to Lüderitz - GRID-Arendal News

After an eight-hour drive from Windhoek, Hasan and I arrived in Lüderitz and were greeted by the welcome sign we painted last year. The lines were still sharp, a traditional fisherman pulling a boat r...

news.grida.no

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · 29d

Gender equality & equity are crucial @blueactionfund.org projects, esp those co-funded by @greenclimate.fund.

Check out insightful video from our @blueventures.bsky.social showing first hand testimony from local community members in 🇲🇬: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfz1... @oceancecilia.bsky.social

The power of gender equality

YouTube video by BV Mada Videos

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · Sep 8

Project Website of @blueactionfund.org ‘s funded PaMAR project in Cabo Verde now online, implemented d by @faunaflora.bsky.social
Check it out and sign up to receive hopefully many updates full of #OceanOptimism : www.projeto-pamar.com/en

Home | Projeto Pamar

www.projeto-pamar.com

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excited about this milestone 🥳🥳 Looking forward to see this project now coming to life in implementation 🌊

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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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · Aug 6

Big 👞👞 to fill:
🦈 conservation fund is looking for executive director based in 🇺🇸 ➡️ bit.ly/45rPQz1
Exciting opportunity with great team & several co-investments with @blueactionfund.org in 🇿🇦, 🇳🇦, 🇬🇼, 🇨🇻...

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Stacy Jupiter @stacyjupiter.bsky.social · Jul 30

** Exciting postdoc opportunity in community-based fisheries co-management **

Come work with Patrick Smallhorn-West at JCU & me at WCS to understand patterns of co-management governance and link these to social and ecological outcomes.

Full job description here: careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · Jul 29

Maybe I should diversify bedtime stories? 😅 #preschooldrawings #OceanOptimism

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · Jul 29

Follow @projectovito.bsky.social to
learn more about this NGOs important marine and coastal work done in Cabo Verde on Fogo and Brava Island
Proudly funded by @blueactionfund.org in the context of project PaMAR! #OceanOptimism

Associação Projecto Vitó @projectovito.bsky.social · Jul 29

Working with Fogo’s fishing communities through #PaMAR to map fishing zones, species, and challenges. Local voices are key to ocean conservation and community resilience.
#ProjectoVitó

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · Jul 2

@projectovito.bsky.social @uwiceland.bsky.social

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · Jul 2

🌊3 yrs @blueactionfund.org – never a dull moment!✨
- Managed 5 grants across 4 countries
- Project visits to MD, NAM & CV
- Collected & analysed site + MPAGuide data for 180+ sites
- Learned the ropes of mapping
- Worked with an amazing team💙
And above all: a ton of #OceanOptimism
Excited for more.

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · Jun 23

Meanwhile in Madagascar…impactful @blueventures.bsky.social story on learning exchanges between fishing communities from 🇲🇬 and 🇰🇪, funded by @blueactionfund.org

#OceanOptimism

explore.blueventures.org/madagascar-t...

Madagascar to Kenya - Blue Ventures - Photo Stories

Tucked away from other beach management units in Kenya’s Kwale County lies Mwamdudu beach, a fishing village amid mangrove channels and estuaries, where local fishers cast their nets for prawns and ot...

explore.blueventures.org

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · May 30

Sounds like a great opportunity for students - @uwiceland.bsky.social for example 😎

Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · May 30

🌊18-25 years old?
🌊From around the globe interested ocean & communities?
🌊Like to explore a career in conservation?
@nationalgeographic.bsky.social offers a number of #Externships ➡️ ogy.de/vcy4

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · May 23

Heart of Conservation Initiative
🌊 1-2 million USD 2026-2030
🌊 On-the-ground projects
🌊 Focus IPLC
Deadline for EoI June 30 2025
www.worldwildlife.org/pages/wwf-ge...

WWF GEF Expressions of Interest | Pages | WWF

Call for Expressions of Interest

www.worldwildlife.org

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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · May 23

Meanwhile in Honduras 🇭🇳...
Excellent example of a grievance mechanism...👇 Grant fact sheet for our €4.9 million project with @rare.org ➡️https://ogy.de/2lt5

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · May 22

Meanwhile in Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 - funded by @blueactionfund.org

#OceanOptimism

Associação Projecto Vitó @projectovito.bsky.social · May 22

STRENGTHENING MARINE CONSERVATION IN CABO VERDE – A PAMAR project workshop, held in São Filipe, shared the results of CVCA - a method for understanding how climate change affects coastal communities and to what extent they are prepared to adapt.

#ClimateAdaptation #MarineConservation

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · May 21

Who would have guessed?

Good thing that @blueactionfund.org, we collect this data for all our almost 300 sites at project start - and end!

#OceanOptimism #MPAGuide #EffectiveMPAs

Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · May 21

Shocking new paper shows that well-designed marine protected areas that get staffing and implementation work

(This is my shocked face)

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Marine protected areas stage of establishment and level of protection are good predictors of their conservation outcomes

Global targets should track MPA quality and quantity. This is the first study using a new science-based framework across 123 MPAs and tying levels of protection and stages of establishment directly to...

www.cell.com

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · May 16

Inspired and grateful for teaching future marine managers. Good discussions and a lot of #oceanoptimism
Takk fyrir @uwiceland.bsky.social and @blueactionfund.org 🙏❤️🇮🇸

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Sophie Thayne @oceanthayne.bsky.social · May 13

What a day! After an inspiring morning at Icelands Ministry for Foreign Affairs, I drove through the stunning westfjords - returning 10 years after my time as a student @uwiceland.bsky.social , now as a guest lecturer on MPAs and part of @blueactionfund.org
A full-circle moment I won’t forget.

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