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A year-round rolling global competition — enter any day of the year In partnership with CNN’s Call to Earth The Environmental Xperience at EarthX Rotary Club of Newport Beach
100 Projects in 100 Countries Create Lasting Impact

The ocean arm of 100 Projects in 100 Countries

The 7 Seas Initiative

Seven basins. One ocean. A standing commitment to seed and support restoration work in every sea on Earth.

The seven seas were never seven separate things. Water moves between them, and so do plastic, heat, larvae and consequence. The 7 Seas Initiative treats them as one system with seven front doors — and commits the program to active, funded-by-partnership restoration work behind every one of them.

Any ocean, coastal or freshwater-to-ocean project entering 100 Projects in 100 Countries is automatically considered for the initiative. Selected projects are connected to Rotary Action Groups working in water and environment, to the 7 Seas Foundation, and to the marine science and funding networks that gather at The Environmental Xperience.

Arctic Ocean North Atlantic South Atlantic North Pacific South Pacific Indian Ocean Southern Ocean River Recycle Philippines & Indonesia River Recycle The Alluvium Project Mexico & United States The Alluvium Project Turtle Island Austria Turtle Island Ice in a Box Mexico, the Philippines & Africa Ice in a Box The Panama Project Bocas del Toro, Panama The Panama Project Growing Green Leaders Global Growing Green Leaders One Million Drops — East Meets West Eastern & Western Hemispheres One Million Drops — East Meets West Pollinators Without Borders Canada, United States & Mexico Pollinators Without Borders The Tree Projects Finland, Panama, Mexico & Global The Tree Projects The Rotary Reef Education Project — Randolph High School Interact Club Randolph, Vermont, United States The Rotary Reef Education Project — Randolph High School Interact Club

Top 10 honoree Honored project 7 Seas Initiative basin 10 projects on the map

  1. 1

    Arctic Ocean

    Ice-edge monitoring, Indigenous-led stewardship, and the cold-water science that anchors every climate model on Earth.

  2. 2

    North Atlantic

    Cold-water coral and kelp restoration, fishery recovery, and plastic interception from Europe to the eastern seaboard.

  3. 3

    South Atlantic

    Mangrove replanting, sea-turtle nesting protection, and coastal livelihoods from Brazil to West Africa.

  4. 4

    North Pacific

    Gyre plastic recovery, seagrass carbon sinks, and island-nation resilience across the world's largest basin.

  5. 5

    South Pacific

    Reef nurseries, community-managed marine areas, and youth marine-science education across Oceania.

  6. 6

    Indian Ocean

    Coral heat-resilience trials, artisanal fishery reform, and river-mouth plastic capture from Africa to Indonesia.

  7. 7

    Southern Ocean

    Krill-fishery science, marine protected area advocacy, and the polar research that protects the whole system.

Flagship project

The Panama Project

In Bocas del Toro, coral restoration, youth marine education and community stewardship run as one program rather than three. It is the model the 7 Seas Initiative is built to replicate: reef work that trains the people who live beside the reef, and pays for itself in local capability.

Visit thepanamaproject.org

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This is a full-time rolling competition. Submit your project any day of the year — honorees are released daily, and the Top 10 are named every Earth Day and every Half Earth Day.

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