Recognised in the Education category, Public Facing People’s Choice Award voting now open! Jangamo Bay, Mozambique:  Love The Oceans is proud to have been recognised as a finalist within the Education category for the Regenerative Travel Impact Awards 2021! These new awards celebrate the people and projects that embody the spirit of regeneration—improving people’s lives, […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact:        Brett Loveman, Director of Communications bloveman@mission-blue.org  Contact:Francesca Trotman, Founder and Managing DirectorLove The Oceansfrancesca@lovetheoceans.org  (JANGAMO BAY, MOZAMBIQUE) FEBRUARY 25th, 2021 The expansive coast along Mozambique’s Jangamo Bay offers a warm welcome to its visitors with serene blue waters, rolling sand dunes and idyllic palm trees. In Jangamo Bay, tourists […]

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/turtleprotectionmozambique We’re raising money to protect the turtles in Mozambique! 100% of your donation goes to employing guards to guard the turtle nests 24/7 and ensuring a turtle patrol goes out every day to locate and protect new nests. There are 7 species of sea turtles around the globe. Were lucky enough that 5 of […]

As a supporter of Love The Oceans you will be no stranger to the immense problem that plastic pollution has become to our oceans. The statistics out there are terrifying. According to The World Economic Forum “The world’s oceans will be filled with more plastic mass than fish mass by 2050”. The study released by The WEF […]

Why are See Change Now connecting with Love the Oceans to help reduce plastic waste?  Brand Ambassador Alice Lamming explains Alice from Dark Horse Eventing got chatting to Catherine at See Change Now because she’d taken on two rescue pygmy goats whose coats were in a bad state and didn’t know what to use on […]

Onegreenbottle was created out of a need to find a drinking bottle that kept water clean, safe and pure. Heather Nicholson founded the company in 2006 after being concerned about chemicals leaching into drinks from plastics, the eternal problem of disposing of huge amounts of plastics and plastic debris in the environment. Stainless steel is […]

Over the next few months while everyone is struggling through this tricky time, the team at Love The Oceans wants to bring you a little bit of good news of awesome environmental movements and brands that our team love and we genuinely believe in. There’s also some goodies to be had – check our instagram […]

Over the next few months while everyone is struggling through this tricky time, the team at Love The Oceans wants to bring you a little bit of good news of awesome environmental movements and brands that our team love and we genuinely believe in. There’s also some goodies to be had – check our instagram […]

During this pandemic we’re not able to carry out much of our research and all of our community work. We’ve therefore shifted some of our focus to our online presence so our Founder has done some podcasts recently you may be interested in: Conservation Careers PodcastNick Askew from Conservation Careers uncovers what it’s like to work in […]

Deakin and Blue and Love The Oceans have worked together for the last two years and we’re thrilled to be working with this high-impact, female-founded and sustainable women’s swimwear brand again this summer. Recognised by Vanity Fair as one of the “most sustainable fashion brands” and winner of the Independent’s Best Buy Sports Swimwear 2018 […]

Over the next few months while everyone is struggling through this tricky time, the team at Love The Oceans wants to bring you a little bit of good news of awesome environmental movements and brands that our team love and we genuinely believe in. There’s also some goodies to be had – check our instagram […]

Hi Everyone! If you missed the recent webinar our Founder Francesca Trotman did with Conservation Careers (https://www.conservation-careers.com), you can catch it here: We talked about all things marine conservation careers, with other guests Emily Daniels from Wise Oceans (https://www.wiseoceans.com) and Sam Craven from Reef World Foundation (https://reef-world.org). Marine Conservation Careers Topics covered include: What are […]

It’s World Oceans Day on the 8th June 2019 and Love the Oceans are collaborating again with sustainable swimwear brand Deakin and Blue to help reduce, remove and recycle waste from our oceans. More than this, we’re working together to promote sustainable fashion and body positivity, encouraging more women to get into the water. We’re running […]

The wonderful Made In Pink recently interviewed our Founder, Francesca Trotman, on all things Love The Oceans and Sharks. Check it out here! Love the oceans? Love sharks. Interview with marine conservationist, Francesca Trotman

Love The Oceans is very proud to announce we’re partnering with the incredible non-profit organisation Photographers Without Borders. PWB is a leading community of storytellers, building capacity for non-profits and NGOs. In 2019 Danielle herself, the CEO and founder of PWB will be running the PWB school in Mozambique, working with Love The Oceans to […]

We’re thrilled to announce we’ve been listed as a Finalist for the Global Youth Travel Awards 2018 under the Outstanding Volunteer Project category through the WYSE Travel Confederation! Fingers crossed we’ll win but we’re very proud to get this far. Thank you to everyone that has supported Love The Oceans thus far, we’re already looking […]

We’re now launching our BRAND NEW Ocean Trash merchandise line! This line is part of our Ocean Clean Up Campaign and we commit to removing 2kg of trash from the oceans and beaches for every item bought! Why should you buy one? – All items are printed by a certified organic company with low-waste digital […]

The amazing Zoggs swimming company has sponsored us for our swimming initiative in Mozambique by providing us with lots of swimming aids to teach swimming in the local community. We recommend shopping at Zoggs for any of your swim gear – they’re an awesome company! Check out their blog on our project and some pictures […]

THANK YOU SO MUCH Vernier Software for your generous donations of a spectrometer, glass and plastic cuvettes!! This will go such a long way to help our research!! You’re awesome!!! Everyone please check out their website: http://www.vernier-intl.com they’re super cool and great for any scientific equipment you need!

Amazing donations from ‪Tiger‬ !!! Thank you SO much for all your help and donations of your gorgeous products! The ‪children at the ‪‎schools we work with will ‪‎LOVE‬ all this! Thank you so much, you’re awesome!!! If you’d like to buy some of Tiger Store’s wonderful products, you can visit their website here: http://www.tigerstores.co.uk/

Attention all our Leeds followers! Be sure not to miss our talk on our amazing volunteering opportunities in Mozambique on Thursday! Pop in and meet the team!

Do you shop online? Do it through easyfundraising.org.uk and you can raise a free donation for Love The Oceans every time you shop! It won’t cost you a thing and there are no price differences shopping through easyfundraising. Enjoy your guilt free shopping!! https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/lovetheoceans/

Dive Gear Express (https://www.divegearexpress.com/) has just donated 3 spools and 24 dive slates to Love The Oceans, meaning we can get started on improving our coral reef surveys. This will really make a difference for our scientific studies, thank you so much Dive Gear Express for being so awesome! If anyone would like some great […]

We’re currently running our 2016 fundraiser for our school project. We’d really appreciate any money you can donate at all! Please follow the link and give generously: https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/lovetheoceansnonprofit

Proudly introducing our bi-annual newsletter!! If you’d like to get regular updates of LTO’s activities, including information on how you can get involved, please email: outreach@lovetheoceans.org

Thank you to everyone who donated in 2015! We raised just over £2000 and were able to do some much needed work on the school, including putting a roof on and a floor in one classroom as well as plastering, repairing and painting the walls and floors of the other classrooms. We also put desks […]

Happy 2016 to all our fellow ocean conservationists!! May it be good one! Join us in Mozambique in 2016 and volunteer on our marine conservation programs…visit our volunteer page for more info!

We got out new line of merchandise on sale! Check out our merchandise page for more detail, including various designs, sizes and prices. Hope everyone’s enjoying their holiday season!! Happy almost-2016!

You books have been amazingly useful and the children have loved them at Guinjata Escola! They’ve been put into the library we are building at the school and we’re looking forward to adding more to them! Here’s some pictures of the kids learning from the books, thank you for your donation!

The work we’ve been doing at the school is really coming along nicely! Check the newly painted walls…

Spaces will fill up quickly so be sure to apply as soon as possible!! We’ll be running one 4 week benthic survey program and two 5 week fisheries programs. The 4 week program dates are: 2nd July – 31st July (exc. Kruger) The 5 week program dates are: 31st July – 4th September (exc. Kruger) […]

We want to build walls on one of the classrooms at Guinjata School. The walls are currently palm leaves and we’d like to change this into a more positive learning environment for the children. Therefore, we’re doing a final push on this year’s Guinjata School fundraiser. Please donate a little or a lot to build […]

Morning beach clean up…that’s how we roll! Whilst waiting for catches we put our time to good use doing a beach clean up!

First day of training and the volunteers have taken to research like ducks to water! Keen to get on with the rest of the weeks activities…keep up the good work guys!!

Love the Oceans is doing a fundraiser to raise money for our local school in Guinjata! This money will help build a new classroom and new learning materials for the children. PLEASE spare a moment and some money for this cause that is well worth it! ALL money raised will go towards helping the school […]

Do you have any old books you can spare? Donate them to us! Whether they’re old text books or fictional, for 3 year olds or 18 year olds, please send them to us! Write your name on the inside along with your twitter e.g @LoveTheOceans and we can tweet you a picture of your book […]

Due to an expansion in the August program and cancellations in the September one there is still 2 places left on each program!!! Get your applications in ASAP to be considered for a place!!! Email us at lovetheoceans@outlook.com!!

We are proud to announce we have a new partner! Scubography is a new company which acts as a forum for all things marine conservation and underwater photography related. A useful networking tool! You can find our profile and explore their website here:http://scubography.com/associated-research-institutes/ and give their facebook page a like to be kept up to […]

Only 2 spots left on our August program and 4 on our September one!! Get your applications in soon to be considered for a spot for this amazing opportunity!!

The lovely Pippa Jane Fitch created a video of her experiences in Mozambique with us in summer 2014. Great vid! You can find Pip’s blog she kept out there here.

Congratulations to our new recruits for 2015!! We look forward to you joining us here out in sunny Mozambique! You can join our facebook group here to connect with other volunteers who are on the same month as you: http://tinyurl.com/nyfyom4

Dive Site Magazine has been kind enough to advertise us in their newsletter and site! You can find our vid here http://www.thedivesite.co.za/…/volunteer-for-love-the-ocean… Become a member and subscribe to their newsletter (which we’re in!) here: http://www.thedivesite.co.za/signup and like them on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/pag…/The-Dive-Site/190917344252392… They’re an awesome dive magazine with some amazing photographers and stories!

Thanks to Kyra Kalageorgi we have a new logo! Keep an eye out for this beautiful artwork on all our documents/tshirts/posters! Check out her other incredible artwork here! http://www.kyrakalageorgi.com

Here’s a quick vid that shows what you get up to as a Love The Oceans Volunteer!

We’ve created a video emphasizing the importance of protecting sharks. Watch and share! Hope you enjoy.

We’re currently recruiting for our volunteer program in Aug-Oct 2015. Be sure to get in touch soon! Applications don’t close until March, but we strongly advise to apply before December or there may be no places left! Fill out a contact form on the ‘Apply Now!’ tab to start the application process. We look forward […]

Since we do not have previous blog posts, one of our volunteers who has now joined the team wrote a blog while she was out in Mozambique in 2014. You can find her blog here: Pippa’s Blog