OCEAN BLUE

About Us

OCEAN BLUE is brought to you by Marine Work Group Ireland: a non-profit environmental working group and policy forum established by Friends of the Irish Environment to encourage the development and implementation of the policies needed to restore and sustain the health of Ireland's marine environment and its biodiversity.

Our vision and mission

We envision wild, healthy oceans with thriving ecosystems filled with diverse and abundant wildlife, free of pollution, protected through enlightened management, sustaining coastal communities and a healthy society.

We see growing signs of oceans and seas in crisis: overfishing, habitat loss, pollution, climate change, coastal development, and other threats to species and ecosystems are pushing Ireland's seas and coasts towards ecological collapse.

Our mission is to achieve the preservation of the biodiversity and ecological processes of marine and coastal ecosystems; the conservation of marine and coastal wildlife and habitats; the restoration of impaired marine and coastal ecosystems; and the sustainable, equitable and ethical use of renewable natural marine resources.

Our aims

Through science-based advocacy, policy formulation and public awareness campaigns we aim to inform, inspire and help people from all walks of life to be advocates for the oceans.

Our principal aim is to encourage a national dialogue on the policies needed to restore and sustain the health of Ireland's marine environment and biodiversity.

Friends of the Irish Environment

Friends of the Irish Environment is an environmental non-governmental organisation comprising a network created by conservationists in Ireland in order to monitor the full implementation of European environmental law, to work for changes in the Irish planning laws, and to pursue concerns and cases in both the built and the natural environment based on the principles of sustainable development.

Friends of the Irish Environment produces The Papers Today, which provides online daily coverage of environmental news stories of relevance to Ireland.