#fisheries

🇦🇴 Angola · ACADIR (Associação de Conservação do Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Integrado Rural)

Angola's first locally-led conservation NGO helps communities in Cuando Cubango secure land and resource rights while rebuilding farms, fisheries and wildlife after decades of war.

🇲🇷 Mauritania · BACoMaB Trust Fund (Fonds Fiduciaire du Banc d'Arguin et de la Biodiversité Côtière et Marine)

A Nouakchott-based conservation trust fund permanently finances ranger patrols, science and community programs across Mauritania's marine protected areas.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Blue Resources Trust

Blue Resources Trust conducts marine research in Sri Lanka on sharks, rays, coral reefs, and seagrass to inform conservation policy.

🇲🇬 Madagascar · Blue Ventures

Marine conservation NGO empowering Madagascar's coastal fishing communities to manage and restore their own reefs and fisheries.

🇴🇲 Oman · Environment Society of Oman (ESO)

Oman's only dedicated environmental NGO organizes volunteers to strip abandoned fishing nets and marine debris from the beaches and coral reefs that ring one of the world's most important turtle rookeries.

🇹🇿 Tanzania · Mwambao Coastal Community Network

A Zanzibar-born network puts coastal Tanzanian communities in charge of restoring reefs, mangroves and fisheries on which their livelihoods depend.

🇲🇲 Myanmar · Friends of Wildlife (FOW)

A Yangon-based NGO works with villagers across Myanmar to protect elephants, Eld's deer and freshwater fish through community-run conservation zones and cleaner cookstoves.

🇫🇯 Fiji · Fiji Locally Managed Marine Area (FLMMA) Network

FLMMA links hundreds of Fijian villages, NGOs, and government agencies to manage coastal fisheries through customary tabu no-take areas.

🇼🇫 Wallis and Futuna · Faiva Tautai

A handful of worried fishers on Wallis marked out their own no-fishing zone to bring the lagoon's fish back.

🇲🇦 Morocco · AGIR (Association de Gestion Intégrée des Ressources)

A grassroots association co-manages Morocco's only marine national park with local fishers, turning no-take zones into a model for the Mediterranean.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI)

A Mexican NGO trains small-scale fishers to run their own no-take marine reserves and collect the science that keeps fisheries sustainable.

🇲🇪 Montenegro · NGO Green Home

A Montenegrin NGO that organized local fishermen to help design the country's second marine protected area, then kept the government's dam plans off two of its wildest rivers.

🇿🇦 South Africa · BirdLife South Africa

South Africa's Albatross Task Force trains trawler and longline crews to fit simple bird-scaring lines that have slashed albatross deaths at sea.

🇲🇩 Moldova · Eco-TIRAS International Environmental Association of River Keepers

A coalition of more than fifty Moldovan and Ukrainian river-keeper NGOs works to keep the transboundary Dniester River healthy for the eight million people who depend on it.

🇰🇼 Kuwait · Kuwait Dive Team

A volunteer diving corps that has spent decades hauling ghost nets off Kuwait Bay's coral reefs and mooring boats so anchors stop crushing them.

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea · Mahonia Na Dari Conservation and Research Centre

Papua New Guinea's 'Guardian of the Sea' has spent nearly three decades teaching Kimbe Bay communities to run their own no-take marine reserves in the heart of the Coral Triangle.

🇲🇿 Mozambique · Love The Oceans

A grassroots dive-and-research charity in Jangamo Bay is gathering the reef, fisheries and megafauna data needed to win Mozambique's first Marine Protected Area, while training local women as the district's first female scuba divers.

🇲🇭 Marshall Islands · Marshall Islands Conservation Society (MICS)

Marshallese conservationists are blending traditional atoll knowledge with science to put local communities in charge of their own reefs and fisheries.

🇫🇲 Micronesia · Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT)

The regional trust fund bankrolling the Micronesia Challenge, moving over $100 million to protect coral reefs and forests across five Pacific nations and territories.

🇬🇦 Gabon · Organisation Ecologique des Lacs et de l'Ogooué (OELO)

Residents of a fishing village on Lake Oguemoué formed their own NGO to police bushmeat and overfishing, turning ecotourism income into wetland protection across Gabon's largest Ramsar site.

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Marine Conservation Cambodia

From a small island base in the Kep Archipelago, this community-rooted NGO has spent nearly two decades turning trawled-out seabeds back into thriving fishing grounds.

🇸🇧 Solomon Islands · Solomon Islands Locally Managed Marine Areas Network (SILMMA)

Across the Solomon Islands, villages set their own no-fishing zones and reef rules through a nationwide network of locally managed marine areas.

🌍 Global · Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Direct-action marine conservation fleet defending ocean wildlife from poaching and illegal fishing worldwide.

🇱🇨 Saint Lucia · Soufrière Marine Management Association (SMMA)

Since 1994 fishers, dive operators and the government have jointly managed Saint Lucia's most valuable reef through a single, zoned marine protected area.

🇳🇿 New Zealand · New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Trust

Since 1992 this is the only organisation dedicated to researching New Zealand's critically endangered Māui and Hector's dolphins to guide their protection from fishing nets.

🇳🇺 Niue · Tofia Niue

A tiny raised-coral nation partnered with its own community NGO to put its entire ocean territory under protection.

🌍 Global · The Manta Trust

A global network of researchers photo-IDs and protects manta and devil rays, turning citizen-science sightings into marine protected areas and fishing bans.

🇵🇪 Peru · ProDelphinus

A Lima-based marine biology NGO teaches Peru's small-scale fishers to safely release sea turtles caught in their nets and lines, turning bycatch victims into survivors.

🇹🇴 Tonga · Vava'u Environmental Protection Association (VEPA)

A Tongan NGO founded by local leaders is turning traditional reef knowledge into a nationwide network of community-run ocean management zones.