OceanExpert ID : 24887
Positive Change for Marine Life
PCFML
(Positive Change for Marine Life)
PO BOX 238
Byron Bay NSW 2481
Australia
Type
NGO
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Telephone
0476403629
Activities
Positive Change for Marine Life dismantles the old narrative that the ocean exists for us to exploit. Through our core values of understanding, education and respect, we empower communities to take action for our ocean, developing long-term initiatives that benefit the sea and those who rely upon it for survival.
We work with a broad spectrum of people from diverse backgrounds – businesses, fishers, community organisations, students, faith groups, activists, political institutions and individuals – to realise the value of a healthy ocean and its long-term environmental, social, cultural and economic benefit.
We have three key focus areas:
1
Developing solutions to marine debris and pollution, which devastate marine ecosystems and human health. This includes exploring the potential of proper waste management, decentralised food production, up-cycling and ecotourism on transitioning coastal communities away from exploitative industries whilst improving health, creating employment opportunities for marginalised groups, and protecting the ocean in perpetuity.
2
Leading community-driven blue and green forest restoration projects in estuaries and coastal areas, focusing on mangroves, saltmarsh, seagrass and strategic landscape-scale connectivity corridors. This includes developing innovative, multi-stakeholder research and mapping programs to identify threats and priority sites, leading on-ground, community-led rewilding projects to improve habitat and increase climate resilience, and running community engagement and citizen science programs to ensure human activity can better coexist with nature.
3
Engaging fishers in resource sustainability solutions through research, monitoring, deep multi-stakeholder engagement, ocean literacy, and developing innovative, collaborative approaches to fisheries management challenges, allowing nature and the communities who rely on it to thrive. This includes developing and implementing community-centred, livelihood-focused fisheries strategies, climate-resilient coral planting, and exploring multi-use, efficacious marine reserves within some of the world’s 10 Marine Biodiversity Hotspots.
We are proud to be independent, non-partisan, and non-denominational.
Lucy JEPSON
Partnerships and Community Engagement