The Ocean Advocate

From helping Norway conserve its kelp forests to scintillating sea swallows to the truth about deep-sea mining...

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From fatter-than-expected polar bears to a great new tool for the ocean...

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🌊 Ready to protect our oceans?
Join the MPA Day 2026 webinar and learn how to get involved in this global movement.
📅 10 Feb | 16:00 CET
🎤 Founders & champions share their story
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💙 The ocean needs you

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My wish for 2026? Far more protection for our ocean and its special species. Thank you to everyone who followed, subscribed, partnered or took classes with The Ocean Advocate in 2025. You made it all worthwhile. 🩵

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A long kayak on an almost windless afternoon. Came across a raft of eight African penguins out on the water. Crazy lucky and deeply grateful.

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Our Life Aquatic – a sonnet to the sea 🩵

Top ocean news, turtles galore, brave seals, African penguin killers, one way to save the ocean, a special book to end the year, a chilling graphic and a hidden gem you’ve got to visit.

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My best event in a long time? Visiting the Dyer Island Conservation Trust in Gansbaai. From the African Penguin & Seabird Sanctuary to Marine Dynamics Shark & Whale Tours to the Great White House restaurant and accommodation, I was blown away by what this conservation initiative is achieving 👏

PLEASE NOTE THE CLASS IS NOW FULLY BOOKED.

The year's last Write for the Ocean masterclass has been scheduled.

Date: 18 December
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm CET
Cost: $35
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Single-use plastic ends up in our ocean so easily. A clarion call to get rid of waste responsibly. And reduce, recycle, reuse.

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I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
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Our Life Aquatic – an ode to the ocean 🩵

Top ocean news made easy to read, COP30 commentary, a challenge to live up to, a great book, ravishing ribbon eels, high fives for the High Seas.

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Our Life Aquatic – a love letter to the ocean 🩵

Ocean news you need to know, the plight of sharks in South Africa, a great book, phenomenal pygmy seahorses and safety tips for sea-lovers.

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Our Life Aquatic – ocean news you need to know, a great book for your library, a global issue we need to tackle. Plus...entertaining stuff, too!

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Our Life Aquatic - the ocean newsletter worth a good read - preferably on a beach lounger 🏖 with marine-safe suncream on!

Waggy-tailed turtles, the biggest conservation success story you've never heard of, a cool African penguin site.

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Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050 The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

My son was 1 when leaders pledged to keep warming below 1.5C.

By his 11th birthday even 2C is dead.

I’m lost for words at the scale of this betrayal.

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A writing class where you'll actually write, not just listen to a talk about writing.

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Our Life Aquatic - the little ocean newsletter that could

This week, cautionary catfish tales 👀 stupifying statistics 😱 a writing class that actually involves writing ✍

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Coming up this Saturday. African penguins are endemic, critically endangered and predicted to be extinct in the wild by 2035.

To take action, email the relevant South African minister every month: tinyurl.com/2wxted7r

For more ways to get involved: www.theoceanadvocate.com/act-987903.h...

Could you be 'the one'?

Nominations for The Earthshot Prize 2026 are due.

Ocean projects should be beyond idea stage, have tested in-field or with target audiences and be at a ‘tipping point’ for scaling their impact.

Please get in touch with The Ocean Advocate if that's you.

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Our Life Aquatic - The Borneo Edition

Exploring the Celebes Sea 🌊 with truckloads of turtles 🪸 coral conservation 🐟 and fish life galore.

Also, an ocean writing masterclass on offer: www.theoceanadvocate.com/write.html

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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

The saddest news in the world today. It should be leading every news outlet, given the enormity of the loss for our world.

A link to one of my favourite posts, which highlighted our interconnectedness with nature beautifully: www.instagram.com/reel/DLaWW04...

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An invitation to register for The Ocean Advocate's next writing masterclass

A 2.5 hr online session priced at R600 ($35) to help you turn words into powerful tools to reach the public and advocate for the ocean

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Choose a healthy ocean. Choose a healthy world.

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Where does the ocean begin?

UPDATE: THE CLASS IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP.

An invitation to register for The Ocean Advocate's next writing masterclass

A free 1-hour online session to help you turn words into powerful sentences to reach the general public and advocate for the ocean

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Toothless sharks? Ocean acidification could erode predator’s vital weapon, study finds Sharks could struggle to feed themselves efficiently in future, affecting marine ecosystem stability, researchers say

🦈 Ocean acidification can erode shark teeth, making it harder for them to survive, new research shows

This "evil twin" of the climate crisis is fuelled by CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels. We must end new oil & gas projects in our waters.
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To the wonderful people who follow The Ocean Advocate: some offline time is coming up. I'm heading out to volunteer with the Tropical Research and Conservation Centre.

Till then, I hope the ocean, with its ability to inspire and refresh, holds you in its blue thrall.

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