Marine Conservation

Oceans Of Opportunity:
Building The Partnerships That Shape Policymaking

Our long-standing commitment to investing in research is key to facilitating sustained conservation change. Through our partnerships, we’re implementing bold marine conservation interventions for a healthier planet for all.

Locally and globally, from the tropics to the poles, our impact continues to gather momentum.

We’re addressing the issues created by human impact by working with local communities, governments, and NGOs. We’re building the partnerships that ensure our research directly influences policymakers, and co-creates robust, climate-smart solutions that are good for our wildlife and human wellbeing and livelihoods. We’re also generating results that are evidence-based and global exemplars of best practice.

Our expertise extends across behavioural, population, community, and evolutionary ecology, engaging with the most pressing conservation issues. Our work is already making a difference to marine protected areas (MPAs), bycatch mitigation, sustainable aquaculture, and renewable energy.

By putting marine conservation at the heart of our research, we are committed to raising the extent of marine protected areas globally as a tool to increase biodiversity, preserve fish populations and fight the global climate crisis.

We have been instrumental in the movement to help create a global network of MPAs, known as the 30x30 campaign. With only 2.7% of the ocean classified as a highly protected zone, 30x30 is calling on governments and world leaders to urgently increase the level of protection for marine environments to preserve life on Earth.

Our work includes on-the-ground, local community engagement to improve understanding of MPA quality and if they are delivering effective conservation.

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Healthier Oceans

Our researchers specialise in marine conservation, ecotoxicology, marine governance, ocean systems and technology. Their focus is on protecting endangered species from extinction, understanding human exposure to marine pollutants and their transmission in aquatic environments to help empower the conservation of our natural environment.

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Ecotoxicology

Spanning pesticides, anti-microbial resistant bacteria and plastics, our community of scientists work from molecular to ecosystem level to gain a forensic understanding of the impact of anthropogenic marine pollution on the health of both our oceans and people. We apply collaborative systemic thinking to each and every challenge, providing evidence to influence change in both global policy and human behaviour around waste in our oceans.