When you’ve ever taken half in a Dive In opposition to Particles® cleanup, adopted a dive website with Undertake the Blue™, or supported ocean safety efforts in your group, you understand how highly effective small actions could be, and that collectively they will make a giant, international impression.
That’s why the PADI AWARE Basis® is proud to introduce the brand new Conservation Motion Portal (CAP) — a robust platform designed to make it simpler to take motion, observe your impression, and be a part of a rising motion of Ocean Torchbearers dedicated to defending our blue planet.
What’s CAP?
The Conservation Motion Portal is a one-stop store for conservation motion, making it simpler than ever for PADI Divers, Professionals, and Dive Facilities to contribute significant knowledge and have interaction in conservation instantly by way of the dives you’re already doing. For over a decade, the group platform “My Ocean” has helped divers actively take part in preventing the marine particles disaster. My Ocean was launched with the citizen science program Dive In opposition to Particles. However because the group and the AWARE applications grew, so did the necessity for a extra streamlined, impactful instrument. That’s why PADI AWARE undertook the event of CAP.
How To Take part on the Conservation Motion Portal
The Conservation Motion Portal launches with some highly effective, action-ready applications which might be already making waves in ocean safety. Whether or not you’re an informal weekend diver or a seasoned professional, these applications are designed to fulfill you the place you might be and switch your dives into knowledge that drives actual change.
Dive In opposition to Particles: Log particles and assist scientists establish air pollution hotspots.
Each time you take away and report marine particles out of your dive within the Conservation Motion Portal, you’re contributing to the most important underwater cleanup and knowledge set on the planet. Your knowledge helps pinpoint air pollution hotspots, inform native waste administration insurance policies, and even help worldwide environmental treaties.
Undertake the Blue: Assist defend dive websites by formally adopting and monitoring them.
Undertake the Blue provides dive professionals the chance to formally help an area dive website and assist prioritize it for cover. These adopted websites are a part of a rising international stock of areas which will change into future marine protected areas (MPAs) or obtain focused conservation efforts.
World Plastic Treaty: Deal with plastic air pollution along with your signature.
By way of the Conservation Motion Portal, you possibly can be a part of the decision for a robust UN World Plastics Treaty that tackles plastic air pollution on the supply. PADI AWARE Basis is the one group representing divers and the dive business on the worldwide coverage desk, and your participation will assist flip the tide on plastics. Signal the petition, keep knowledgeable on negotiations, and add your voice to a rising international motion pushing for systemic change.
World Shark & Ray Census: An thrilling growth of citizen science in motion. (Launching later this yr.)
This thrilling new citizen science program will permit divers and snorkelers in all places to log sightings of sharks and rays. The info collected will assist scientists observe populations, perceive migration patterns, and establish essential habitats, simply by logging what you see in your dive. Keep tuned!
Donate: Help ocean conservation and safety by donating to the AWARE Basis.
Your donation to PADI AWARE Basis instantly funds applications like Dive In opposition to Particles, Undertake the Blue, group grants, and international advocacy efforts just like the World Plastics Treaty. Each contribution helps scale impression, help science, and defend the ocean all of us love.
Participate in these fins-on and fins-off actions. Be part of at the moment and get your Torchbearer Badge.
Prime Options of the Conservation Motion Portal
CAP is simple to make use of and provides a streamlined method to assist save the ocean.
1. One Login for Every little thing
Entry the portal along with your present PADI account — no new credentials wanted. You possibly can log in at motion.padiaware.org/dwelling or by way of the PADI AWARE app.
2. Net and Cell Entry (Even Offline!)
Submit conservation knowledge on the go, whether or not you’re at your laptop computer or on a distant dive website. The app even helps you to log offline and syncs if you reconnect.
3. Interactive World Map
Discover the stay Conservation Map at padiaware.org to see the place actions are taking place domestically and globally. Your impression turns into a part of a visual, rising wave of change.
4. Mission and Marketing campaign Updates
The Conservation Motion Portal’s homepage retains you knowledgeable with campaigns, petitions, and initiatives. Whether or not it’s a worldwide shark petition or a dive website adoption effort close to you, you’ll know precisely methods to have interaction. You can too acquire badges for participation to have fun your dedication to ocean conservation.
5. Affect Numbers and Information Sharing
Your submissions don’t simply sit in a database. They’re shared with scientists, policymakers, and companions, like James Prepare dinner College, to drive marine analysis and coverage advocacy. View your individual impression numbers in addition to the worldwide figures on the app and understand how a worldwide Torchbearer Neighborhood can work collectively on the identical targets.
Prepared To Take Motion?
Right here’s methods to get began on CAP:
- Log in to the portal and get your Torchbearer Badge.
- Obtain the app. PADI AWARE is obtainable on the Apple App Retailer and on Google Play
- Discover the Conservation Map.
- Participate in a survey or initiative.
Whether or not you’ve submitted knowledge as soon as or 100 instances, each entry has helped form this launch. Due to the dedication of over 183,000 divers world wide, we’ve already eliminated practically 2.5 million items of particles objects, helped over 37,000 entangled animals, and adopted practically 3,000 dive websites. Now, with the Conservation Motion Portal, you’ll be capable of see that impression unfold — and scale it even additional.
