Ocean Connections

Fostering connections with ocean/coastal-related NGOs and CBOs

Looking for an NGO (non-governmental organisation) or CBO (community-based organisation) to connect with? This database is for you!

To search the database, either zoom in on the map and click on the points, or click the arrow on the right to scroll through the list of organisations or search for names/interests (see below for options). Points in the high Arctic represent organisations that operate in multiple locations.

Interests to search by

  • Advocacy

  • Beaches

  • Biology / Ecology

  • Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises)

  • Citizen science

  • Climate

  • Community empowerment/ development

  • Conservation

  • Coral reefs

  • Economics

  • Education / Outreach

  • Elasmobranch (sharks, rays, skates

  • Fisheries (commercial or recreational)

  • Food security

  • Funding opportunities

  • Governance

  • Habitat restoration

  • Human rights

  • Invasive species

  • Kelp forests

  • Law

  • Manatees / Dugongs

  • Mangroves

  • Marine protected areas

  • Megafauna

  • Monitoring

  • Oceanography

  • Penguins

  • Policy

  • Pollution

  • Renewable energy

  • Seals / Sea lions

  • Seagrass

  • Sea otters

  • Sea turtles

  • Technology

  • Wetlands

IMPORTANT!

This database and the information contained therein have been crowd-sourced and are for information only.

Organisations that appear here are not associated with Samantha Andrews/Ocean Oculus and have not been vetted in any way. Many thanks to all of those who have contributed to this resource and to Zsolt Ero, who developed MapHub as a free-to-use resource!

If you spot an error with the database, please get in touch.

 
 

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If you know of an ocean-based NGO or CBO that isn’t yet in this database, just fill in this form