Networks & Partners
Networks
Antarctic Ocean Alliance: In 2013 OceanCare joined this coalition of leading environmental and conservation organisations committed to protecting Antarcica’s Southern Ocean by establishing marine protected areas. www.antarcticocean.org
Beat the Microbead: OceanCare is part of the international campaign against microbeads in cosmetics. www.beatthemicrobead.org
Break Free from Plastic: In 2016 OceanCare became part of an international movement of organisations dedicated to reduce plastic pollution and to promote closed-loop use of plastics. www.breakfreefromplastic.org
Cetacean Alliance: OceanCare is a co-founder of the alliance, established in 2007 to protect marine mammals. The member organisations are committed to preserving marine biodiversity and reducing negative human impacts on whale and dolphin populations. www.cetaceanalliance.org
Dolphinaria-Free Europe: OceanCare is part of the organising committee of the European NGO coalition that is committed to ending the captivity of dolphins in Europe. www.dfe.ngo
European Cetacean Society (ECS): The European Cetacean Society (ECS) promotes the scientific studies of marine mammals, and has done so since 1987. In most European countries, the association is represented by a national contact person. Since 2012, Dr Silvia Frey of OceanCare has fulfilled this function for Switzerland. www.europeancetaceansociety.eu
Global Environmental Society (GES): Since 2015 OceanCare is a member of the Global Environmental Society, an international network for sustainability, innovation and information. GES promotes the worldwide exchange of ideas and knowledge among like-minded people and advocates for a sustainable living. www.globalenvironmentalsociety.net
High Seas Alliance: Since August 2011, OceanCare has been a member of the High Seas Alliance, an international coalition to protect the high seas. The objective of the Alliance is to facilitate international cooperation to establish high seas protected areas and to strengthen high seas governance. www.highseasalliance.org
IG STOPPP: OceanCare is a member of the Stop Plastic Pollution Switzerland syndicate founded in 2015. STOPPP’s social, economical and political commitment directs against plastic pollution and microbeads in Switzerland. www.stoppp.org
International Ocean Noise Coalition: OceanCare is a founding member and one of the leading organisations of the International Ocean Noise Coalition (IONC), a partnership of over 150 non-governmental organisations from around the world. IONC was initiated in 2003 to take a global approach to reduce and regulate ocean noise pollution in the world’s oceans. www.oceannoisecoalition.org
Mission Blue: Mission Blue is uniting a global coalition to inspire an upwelling of public awareness, access and support for a worldwide network of marine protected areas – Hope Spots. www.mission-blue.org
Ocean Clean Wash: OceanCare joined this international campaign in 2016. The campaign aims at ending water pollution caused by plastic fibres from synthetic clothing. www.oceancleanwash.org
Seas At Risk: Since 2015 OceanCare is member of the European association of non-governmental environmental organisations working to protect and restore to health the marine environment of the European seas and the wider North East Atlantic. www.seas-at-risk.org
Shark Alliance: OceanCare has been a member of the Shark Alliance for many years and supports initiatives for the protection of sharks. www.sharkalliance.org
Silent Oceans Coalition: The international coalition was founded in 2002 by OceanCare and aims to inform the public about underwater noise and to stir it into action against. Meanwhile 26 organisations appeal for the online protest against critical industrial and military activities in the oceans. They pursue media attention in various countries and establish important contacts. www.silentoceans.org
SOSdelfines: Since 2013 OceanCare has been part of the coalition SOSdelfines and has advocated together with European animal welfare organisations for the public education regarding the situation of dolphins in captivity and for the end of dolphinaria in Spain. www.sosdelphine.org
Species Survival Network (SSN): Since 1997, OceanCare has been part of the Species Survival Network (SSN) and is thus committed to the strict enforcement of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). OceanCare’s endeavours are specifically focused on a ban on trade in whale, dolphin, shark and ray specimen and products. OceanCare also strives for polar bears and endangered fish to be protected under the Convention. www.ssn.org
Wildlife Migration Network: OceanCare joined the Wildlife Migration Network in 2013 coordinating and supporting the protection of migrating animal species in international processes. www.wildmigration.org
Acknowledgements and International Fora
UN-Sonderberaterstatus: In 2011, the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations grants OceanCare Special Consultative Status. Such status entitles OceanCare to deliver oral and written statements to all relevant UN bodies. www.un.org
UNEP/UNEA: In December 2015 OceanCare received the accreditation for the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP, for the United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA and for subsidiary agreements. The UN Environment Programme is the only body of the UN solely occupied with the environment und plays a leading role in global environmental protection efforts. www.unep.org
UNEP Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML): OceanCare is part of the global network consisting of governments, NGOs, scientific experts, private stakeholders, representatives of the civil population and interested individuals. GPML participants compile solutions to target a reduction of marine plastic pollution. www.unep.org/gpml
ACCOBAMS: Since 2004, OceanCare is an official partner of the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) to protect cetaceans. As a member of the science committee, OceanCare contributes expertise, collaborates for the conservation of cetaceans and is involved in specific working groups, i.e. ocean noise pollution, bycatch and other threats. www.accobams.org
ASCOBANS: The regional agreement on the conservation of small cetaceans in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, in the North Atlantic and in the Irish Sea ASCOBANS covers all of the toothed whales occurring in these areas except for the sperm whale. www.ascobans.org
CITES: The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES is understood as the Washington protection of endangered species agreement that controls the international trade of endangered animal and plant species. In this body OceanCare is committed to trade restrictions or trade bans for the protection of marine species in general and in particular for whales, dolphins, manatees, seals, sharks and polar bears. In doing so OceanCare often collaborates with the Species Survival Network. www.cites.org
CMS/Bonner Konvention: The Bonn Convention is part of the environment programme of the United Nations and is devoted to the convervation of migratory species of wild animals. Within this convention OceanCare is committed to the protection of marine animals and of their habitat. OceanCare president Sigrid Lüber honorarily appears as Vice-Chairwoman of the underwater noise working group by the three agreements CMS, ACCOBAMS and ASCOBANS. www.cms.int
EU-Kommission: Since 2014 OceanCare has been a member of the working group for the implementation of the new ocean strategy framework directive (MSFD), which states that the European sea neighbouring states are obliged to (re)constitute a good condition of the marine world in their regions until 2020. ec.europa.eu
FAO/COFI: Under the heading of the International Ocean Noise Coalition OceanCare has contributed in the fishing committee COFI of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO in order to push the socio-economic investigations about the impacts of marine noise pollution on fish stocks and fishery. www.fao.org/cofi
IWC/Wissenschaftsausschuss: Since 1992 OceanCare as the only Swiss NGO has been campaigning for the protection of whales in the world oceans as an observer at the meetings of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). OceanCare participates with experts in the meetings of the IWC and of the IWC scientific committee. www.iwc.int
Partner organisations
Adriatic Dolphin Project
www.blue-world.org
Aliança Mar Blava
www.alianzamarblava.org
Alnitak
www.alnitak.org
Animal Welfare Institute
www.awionline.org
Archipelagos
www.archipelago.gr
Bangladesh Cetacean Diversity Project
www.shushuk.org
Blue Voice
www.bluevoice.org
British Divers Marine Life Rescue
www.bdmlr.org.uk
CBD-Habitat
www.cbd-habitat.com
Centre des Soins de la Faune Sauvages (LPA Calais)
www.lpa-calais.org
Centro de Conservación Ceatacea
www.ccc-chile.org
Cetacean Society International
www.csiwhalesalive.org
Clean Adriatic Seas Alliance
www.clean-adriatic.org
Dolphin Biology & Conservation
www.dolphinbiology.org
Dolphin Watch Alliance
www.dolphinwatch.org
EcoCare Maldives
www.ecocare.mv
Environmental Investigation Agency
www.eia-international.org
fair-fish
www.fair-fish.ch
FEROP
www.russianorca.com
Fundación Ballena Azul
www.fundacionballenaazul.org
Fundación Cethus
www.cethus.org
Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas
www.icb.org
Ionian Dolphin Project
www.ioniandolphinproject.org
KAI Marine
www.kaiexpeditions.com
KYMA sea conservation & research
www.kyma-sea.org
M.E.E.R. e.V.
www.m-e-e-r.org
Morigenos
www.morigenos.org
Mundo Azul
www.mundoazul.org
NRDC
www.nrdc.org
OCC
www.occ.org
Ocean Conservation Research
www.ocr.org
Ocean Mammal Institute
www.oceanmammalinst.com
Oceanomare Delphis Onlus
www.oceanomaredelphis.org
OceanSounds
www.ocean-sounds.org
Oceans Research
www.oceans-research.com
Olive Ridley Project
www.oliveridleyproject.org
O.M.M.A.G.
www.ommag.info
One Voice
www.one-voice.fr
Parvati
www.parvati.org
Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute
www.pelagosinstitute.gr
Pro Wildlife
www.prowildlife.de
Salvia
www.salvia-edm.eu
Save The Med Foundation
www.savethemed.org
Shark Project
www.sharkproject.org
Shifting Values
www.shiftingvalues.com
Suzy Utzinger Stiftung für Tierschutz
www.suzyutzinger.ch
SOS Grand Bleu
www.sosgrandbleu.asso.fr
TIR Stiftung für das Tier im Recht
www.tierimrecht.org
Tethys Research Institute
www.tethys.org
Unidos por los Animales
www.unidosporlosanimales.org
Vivamar
www.vivamar.org
Whale & Dolphin Conservation
www.whales.org
Wildlife Conservation Society
www.wcs.org
5 Gyres
www.5gyres.org
