This isn't a petition. It's a construction project. Here's how to help build it.
Marine research institutions and universities to collaborate on the pilot phase. You bring scientific rigour to our operational scale — monitoring protocols, larval biology expertise, site assessment, and published results that build credibility for the global rollout.
We're specifically looking for partnerships in Spain (Mediterranean marine ecology) and Sweden (Baltic ecosystem restoration).
Seed funding for two pilot nurseries. The capital requirement is remarkably small by conservation standards — we need earthworks, not laboratories. This is an opportunity to fund a proof-of-concept that, if successful, unlocks vastly larger climate finance flows.
The unit economics are the story: show funders the cost-per-hectare of "rocks plus ponds" compared to "divers with epoxy" and the conversation gets short.
Local communities who want to build and operate nurseries on their coastline. This is your ocean, your livelihood, and your future. We provide the protocol, training, and support. You provide the knowledge, the labour, and the commitment.
Each nursery creates local employment in exactly the communities whose livelihoods depend on healthy marine ecosystems. Fishers whose catches collapsed can rebuild the habitat that restores their fisheries.
The protocol will be published freely. Anyone, anywhere can use it. We succeed when others replicate us.
Each hub is operated by local communities with local materials and local biology. We provide the framework, not the workforce.
Every pilot is monitored and documented. We publish our results — successes and failures — so the field can learn.
Costs, methods, outcomes — all published. If the approach doesn't work somewhere, we say so and adapt.
Whether you're a marine scientist, a funder, a coastal community leader, or someone who just wants to help move rocks — we want to hear from you.
hello@globaloceanrestoration.orgGive it a rock.