On Halloween weekend, 42 YouthToSea participants laced up their sneakers and dressed in their sustainable re-used or homemade Halloween costumes, ready for a day filled with fun and ocean-friendly Halloween activities! The team started their Trick or Trash cleanup at the seawall in Stanley Park, successfully picking up 23 pounds of litter and cleaning 3.6km of shoreline. The spookiest thing wasn’t just their costumes, but … Continued
What’s born with whiskers, has the second largest brain in the animal kingdom, and breathes through a hole in its head? That’s right, it’s a Killer Whale! Ocean Wise’s successful Aquaclasses are back again with brand-new interactive, curriculum-focused content for grades K-12. Ocean Wise’s Aquaclasses have brought the ocean to the classroom for over 35,000 … Continued
YouthToSea is thrilled to have 10 participants taking part in NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers Virtual Youth Summit, held in partnership with North American Association for Environmental Education. 60 youth that were handpicked from members of Aquariums across the USA have been invited to the summit which goes on August 6-8th online. Ocean Wise is the sole international organization to be … Continued
Will Crolla is an Ocean Wise youth ambassador in the 2021 Ocean Bridge program. Last month, Will and five others Ocean Wise youth from British Columbia took part in the first 10-day Learning Journey of the year – one of dozens of similar journeys that will take place for young Canadians across the country over … Continued
“Clean Coastal, Eat Local” initiative spearheaded by teens from Ocean Wise’s YouthToSea program A group of Metro Vancouver teens in Ocean Wise’s YouthToSea program have set out to address a number of pandemic-related issues facing our environment and community: the increase in litter on local shorelines, the drop in participation in Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, … Continued
Need a last-minute gift idea? Or maybe a new book to curl up with? Melina Stokes, an ambassador with Ocean Wise’s youth service program Ocean Bridge, shares her list of ocean-friendly reads for this holiday season. What a gift it is to indulge in a good book. Books have the incredible ability to transport us … Continued
Since leaving Ocean Bridge, Aira has gone from volunteer to paid employee with the Rideau Environmental Action League. Achieving our vision of a healthy and flourishing ocean requires engagement by the future leaders of our blue planet. That’s why Ocean Wise created Ocean Bridge. Founded in 2018, Ocean Bridge brings together 180 young Canadians – … Continued
Everyone needs to care about the ocean. Whether you live on the coast, or not. That is the message that Ocean Bridge’s Kirsten Desorcy is sharing. She’s an ocean ambassador with Ocean Bridge, even though she lives in the heart of the Prairies. Kirsten – who lives in Steinbach, Manitoba – was one of 160 … Continued
By Taylor Penzes Hi, I’m Taylor. I recently graduated into the rewarding field of social work, something I’ve seen myself working in as a career ever since I was a young girl. Actually, scratch that… I wanted to be a veterinarian, but hey, I got myself a dog, so helping people instead naturally became a … Continued
Woah, we’re halfway there! It’s enough to make one want to break into song! But we’ll spare you and your ears the trouble, and instead bring you Part 3 of our Faces of Ocean Bridge 2019 series. Take a few minutes for yourself and meet 10 more of these wonderful Ocean Ambassadors and find out … Continued
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