Muuse is a smart system enabling reusable packaging as a service. Using a fully-integrated mobile/web application, Muuse operates a global network of elegant, robust, tech-enabled products, including cups and food containers, for the to-go food economy.

The Let the Sea Turtle Live Project is a continuation of a project started in 2019 by our Regional Representative, Forbi Perise. For this project, he and his team go to coastal communities in Cameroon to educate fishers about the importance of Sea Turtle Conservation, as they are still targeted in many communities for food.

To continue to raise awareness and affection for marine environments, OCR will produce 5 episodes on the fascinating ways fish, whales, and pinnipeds communicate, as well as the threats that noise pollution pose to their survival and ocean ecosystems at large. OCR has doubled its followers and views over the past year, thanks in large part to their well-produced videos on marine species.

Blue Tribe uses federated machine learning and patented processes to predict coastal natural disasters at a hyperlocal level, replacing current flood models based on periodic, static surveys and statistical simulation, which can't predict local floods.

Sarita, founder of social enterprise Kasoi based in India, will pilot the removal and marketable uses (creating products for sale) of invasive seaweed, lionfish, and other species.

 A-B-Seas is a two-day experiential learning camp for children and teens to nurture interest in marine life and inspire pro-environmental behavior. This program introduces participants to basic concepts in marine ecology, conservation, and leadership, with special attention to the different roles and responsibilities humans have. Each lesson is accompanied with an activity or task, represented by a marine species. Each camp ends with an assignment for attendees to pursue in their own social circles (e.g., convince their parents to use reusable bags for groceries, write a letter to their principal about waste segregation in their school, etc.). A-B-Seas was created in response to the concern of MPA (Marine Protected Areas) managers that most people involved in MPA management and coastal conservation belong to older age groups.

20 college students are trained as STEM instructors to educate primary school students about marine conservation, piloting archiREEF’s new initiative to integrate standing curricula about marine science in Hong Kong classrooms to ensure the next generation stewards the reef regeneration activities of archiREEF.

This project partners with the local government agencies in Bintan (Marine and Fisheries, Agency of Environment and Forestry of Kepulauan Riau Province) to assess the concentration of plastic particles/fragments in sediment, as well as concentration and extent of oil pollution in Bintan island.  They will also conduct a study on interrelationship between both pollutants (plastic and oil) and the local community’s perception of the problem, with an emphasis on creating post-assessment mitigation proposal.

This project helps tackle the problem of disposable plastic by offering a solution. Here we noticed that almost no reusable cups are proposed and the main bars have a lot of customers with a tremendous amount of plastic cups distributed and then discarded, especially on the weekend. We would like to offer a solution with reusable cups that will be personalized with drawings of sea animals made by art students. The idea is that the public will feel more responsible for their reusable cup if they are personalized.