Our Seas Our Future

Our Vision

To be a leading marine conservation organisation and a voice for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand to protect our marine environment.

Our Story

Our Seas Our Future is a New Zealand registered charity that primarily operates on a volunteer-driven model, focusing on coastal and marine conservation, environmental education, and community engagement projects.

The idea that gave rise to the OSOF initiative still drives us today; we are all stewards of our marine environment, and how we treat our environment now will shape the world we are living in tomorrow; the health of our seas is intertwined with our future.

Our Brands

Our brands include More Marine Reserves™, Sustainable Seafood Now™, Plastic Free New Zealand™, and Climate Action Now™. These brands encompass some of the big issues facing our oceans, both locally and globally.

The focus of these campaigns is to promote the value of establishing more marine protected areas in our oceans, the need to develop and improve sustainable fishing practices, to highlight the issues of anthropogenic pollution such as plastics that are threatening coastal and marine ecosystems, and to raise public awareness in New Zealand about the effects of global warming on our oceans including acidification, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels, and to particularly highlight the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on small island nations and coastal regions.