How everything started...

Our story has just begun, back in 2019 along the streets of Burlington, Ontario (CA) where we committed to preserve and care for vulnerable marine environments and its species.

At the time, we knew a few things about who we wanted to become, including our objectives, that still guide our actions to this day.

To promote marine conservation and management through scientific research, education and public awareness.

To base our findings on sturdy scientific knowledge and circulate these valuable resources to our collaborators, stakeholders and communities.

To raise consciousness of the marine habitats encounters’ current threats and provide tools to address them.

To inspire and work with students and enthusiastic people through school and volunteer programs.

To build strong alliances with collaborators, partners and stakeholders and work towards a better future for marine habitats.

To build strong alliances with collaborators, partners and stakeholders and work towards a better future for marine habitats.

To help in the development of strong communities, providing information, knowledge and support to encourage socio-economic sustainability while striving for a healthy marine ecosystem.

To help in the development of strong communities, providing information, knowledge and support to encourage socio-economic sustainability while striving for a healthy marine ecosystem.

2020
Overtime, we developed numerous initiatives to help us to get closer to those objectives. In 2020 we focused our efforts in fundraising for families affected by COVID-19 in Nuqui, Colombia. At that same year we also started our “Todos somos pacifico” program for volunteers and collaborators. Started our Community Science Program.
2021
R&E became an official charity organization. Throughout 2021 we sustained that program and worked with the local communities in Colombia to educate about responsible whale watching, while also starting our adoption programs.
2022
We kicked off the 2022 season with a lot of great programs, such as monitoring Olive Riddley Turtles in the Gulf of Tribuga, and protecting their marine mammals. We also started our community and citizen science project to engage with the local community, teach children and local fishermen and lastly we implemented our plastic problem project, to conduct beach clean-ups. Also in 2022 we had the amazing opportunity to alongside other scientists explore Antarctica and deepen our research.

Today we keep a lot of those programs up and running and we have even more projects in place to help needed communities and the marine environment.

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Why do we work towards marine conservation?

Plastic Production

Plastic production has more than doubled in the last two decades. Research states that, by 2050, plastic will likely outweigh all fish in the sea.

Source: Our World in Data Make a Difference

Plastic Waste

Around 0.5% of plastic waste ends up in the ocean. Recent high-quality studies suggest that between 1 and 2 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans annually.

Source: Our World in Data Make a Difference

Human Impact

Many species – especially marine mammals – are in distress or critically endangered by human activities such as hunting, fishing and pollution.

Source: Ocean Care Make a Difference

Marine Mammals

Of 129 marine mammal species more than a quarter have a status of concern: 10.9% are listed as vulnerable, 12.5% as endangered, 3.1% as critically endangered.

Source: Ocean Care Make a Difference