World Oceans Day | June 8

The theme for the United Nations World Oceans Day 2025 is ' Awaken New Depths'. This theme focuses on changing our relationship with the oceans to ensure their health and well-being. The event aims to inspire action and create a new balance with the ocean, moving from depleting its bounty to restoring its vibrancy.

Teachers: Visit the free MY HERO Lesson Plan for World Oceans Day. Includes discussion guide and learning outcomes.

Click below to access the 2024 Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award Pubic Voting Activity for Students

These films feature innovative people and organizations who are committed to preserving and protecting sustainability of the ocean.

If You Give a Beach a Bottle

By: Max Romey

Inspired by a picture book, Max Romey heads to a remote beach on Alaska's coastline in search of marine debris

Protecting Coral Reefs

By: NOAA Ocean Today

NOAA and the National Park Service are creating a geo-referenced coral reef base map to better understand coral reefs

The Art Of Discovery

By: Mónika Naranjo-Shepherd

Like scientists, artists conceptualize and put together ideas in new ways. Artists and scientists both have the ability to offer a deeper understanding of our Ocean.

Ocean Guardians

By: Selket A Kaufman

Visionary creates grassroots social enterprise to prevent whale extinction.

360 SEA PLASTIC

Hendrik S. Schmitt

The Jetlagged and Plastic Pollution Coalition want to show our addiction to plastics and raise awareness about the impact plastic waste has on the environment.

Voice Above Water

Produced by:Turning Tides Films

Learn about 90 year old, Wayan Nyo from Indonesia, who does his part to clean the ocean and make the world a much better place.

Meet the Filmmaker - Ocean Heroes

Nina Clare Constable

Conservation photographer, Nina Constable, talks about her work as a videographer, her passion for nature and wildlife .

All the Way to the Ocean

Produced by:Joel Harper

A story about two friends and their discovery of the relationship between our cities' storm drains and the world's oceans, lakes and rivers.

Restoring the Coral Reefs in Florida by Richard Morris

Richard E Morris

This film introduces Sea Heroes who are working to restore the depleted coral reefs off the Florida Keys.

MABON ‘The 8 year old activist’

Jack Davies

Our world has a serious ocean plastics problem. There are now a higher number of plastics in the ocean than the number of fish.

Blue Ventures

Gabriel Diamond

In 2004, marine biologist Alasdair Harris encouraged a coastal Madagascar community to close off a small section of their octopus-fishing area for a few months to see if this would boost productivity.

Looking After Our Environment: James Price Point

Produced by:Mark Pearce

Mark Jones speaks out against a gas development complex that spells doomsday for some species living around James Price Point.

freeFLY

Avery Bazan

A collaboration between Oceans Unmanned and DJI utilizing drones to help entangled humpback whales.

Defending The Deep

Will Parrinello

Claire Nouvian led a focused, data-driven advocacy campaign against the destructive fishing practice of deep-sea bottom trawling, successfully pressuring Intermarché to change its fishing practices.

What can the UK learn from Sussex's inshore bottom trawling ban?

Michael Dorgan

Through this film, Oceana calls on the UK government to introduce such a ban on bottom trawling along the whole UK coast and in all marine protected areas

Plastic Plague

By: Jody Lemmon

Plastic pollution is threatening the ocean's ecosystems, but we can work together to prevent further damage!

Sea Fever

Produced by:Tim Davies

A poetic & musical expression of connecting to the mighty sea.

The Sentinel

Brendan Donovan

A call to save the Antipodean Albatross.

One World One Ocean

Produced by:MacGillivray Freeman Films

One World One Ocean campaign inspires stewardship of the sea.

Laguna ECO HERO Segment: MacGillivrays One World One Ocean

Produced by:The MY HERO Project

Segment from the Laguna Beach ECO Heroes documentary featuring the work of Greg, Barbara, Shawn & Meghan Magillivray with their One World One Ocean Campaign.

Gwala Rising in the Bwanabwana Islands

Produced by:Whitney Yadao-Evans, Niquole Esters, and Jennifer Shoemaker

Gwala Rising in the Bwanabwana Islands depicts the revitalization of traditional conservation practices in the islands of Papua New Guinea.

British Steve Hearn and His Stories with Ocean Animals in Hainan

Hainan Touch

British Steve Hearn and his Stories with Ocean Animals in Hainan

Ocean Hero Spotlight

Jessica Vance

Oluwaseyi Moejoh from Nigeria and Heather Brockbank from the Bahamas share their stories of ocean activism.

Rise From the Cape Flats

Shamier Magmoet

Shamier Magmoet overcomes difficulty and learns to educate youth to experience the ocean, becoming advocates and protectors of therof.

Stories | These ocean heroes work to maintain biodiversity through creative means.

Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award

By: Abigail Richardson

Nancy Caruso

By: Anabelle Vo

Nancy Caruso is a marine biologist who helped bring kelp forests back to the California coast.

Help Mary Save Coral

By: Amanda Molinaro from Irvine

Help Mary Save Coral works to repopulate the world's coral.

Alexandra Cousteau

By: Slater Jewell-Kemker

Alexandra Cousteau was honored as an Earth Trustee by the UN for her work to protect the oceans.

Trash Heroes

By: Elias Amador

Trash Heroes is an international, volunteer-led organization that mobilizes youth in over 12 countries to clean and prevent plastic waste in their communities.

Listen & Read Along | These stories have text and audio so you can listen as you read along. Great for ESL and ELL students.

Sylvia Earle

By: Edward Ortiz

"The key is to see ourselves as a part of the natural systems that support us." [This story is also available in Spanish and French.]

Rachel Carson

By: Wendy Jewell

Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, was the mother of the environmental movement.

Art | Photographers illustrate the beauty of the ocean and pay tribute to the ocean conservation efforts in shoreline communities.

Untitled

By: Patsee Ober

Patsee Ober uses her underwater camera to illustrate the rich life beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Henry the Harbor Seal by Alex Cowdell, Laguna Blue

By: Alex Cowdell

The Laguna Bluebelt honored this photograph in its annual ocean photography competition because it aptly captured the harbor seal in the kelp forest.

Blue Glass by Noah Munivez, Laguna Bluebelt

By: Noah Munivez

This iconic ocean photo received 1st prize in the Amateur category of the 2018 Laguna Bluebelt contest.

Rock Bottom by Bryan Greenberg, Laguna Bluebelt

By: Bryan Greenberg

Bryan Greenberg's award-winning photo shows the shoreline with its awesome rocks in a powerful and beautiful moment, for the Laguna Bluebelt's conservation efforts.

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