The ocean is the Earth’s life support system, home to some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet and our survival depends on their ability to thrive. The ocean is also wild, vast, and remote, making protecting those ecosystems a challenge for humans to undertake alone.

One of the ways we can ensure the long-term conservation and protection of the ocean is to establish marine protected areas, but the solution may not be just in the creation of new reserves. It can also be found in enforcing the regulations that already exist.

Learn how OceanMind monitors 5 million square kilometres of Marine Protected Areas all around the world.

Today on World Ocean Day, we celebrate the incredible progress that the past year has brought us, from the landmark set of goals and targets agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal in December 2022, to the global commitment and ongoing negotiations to develop an international legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. These frameworks are key to leveraging action for positive change, and in this spirit today we would like to focus our attention on the actions ahead for all nations following the adoption of the BBNJ agreement.

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