Global Fishing Watch to reveal all human activity at sea with investment through The Audacious Project
Becht Foundation is proud to be joining The Audacious Project’s collaborative funding initiative to support Global Fishing Watch in its mission to map and monitor all industrial activity at sea and make this knowledge freely available to the world.
The ocean is vital for life on earth. It feeds us, regulates our climate, and is home to an abundance of life. But its health is under threat from human activities, which affect marine life through pollution, habitat destruction and overfishing.
Despite its importance and the threats it faces, the ocean is the least observed part of the planet. Efforts to safeguard our seas have been hampered by our inability to accurately track and monitor harmful practices such as illegal and destructive fishing. To protect the ocean, we need to see and understand everything that happens at sea.
Over the next five years, Global Fishing Watch aims to map 100% of global industrial fishing vessels and all stationary infrastructure at sea, including aquaculture pens, wind farms and oil rigs. Their fishing activity map and open data will transform marine management and protection around the world, enabling governments to combat illegal fishing and successfully manage marine protected areas.
Founded in 2015, Global Fishing Watch is a collaboration between Oceana, SkyTruth and Google. The Audacious Project is a funding initiative housed at TED that brings together funders and social entrepreneurs with the goal of supporting bold solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges.
Learn more about the initiative through this TED Talk by Tony Long, CEO of Global Fishing Watch.
