SPECIAL CAUSE FUNDING AND INVOLVEMENT
FUND YOUR OCEAN PASSION

​Your generous donations ensure the Living Ocean Fund can continue in its Global and Local endeavours
​to support and care of our wonderful oceans.

Some of the causes we support are listed below. If one of these is close to your heart then indicate your preference when you check out and we will keep you updated on that groups work from time to time.

​Living Ocean is listed on the Australian Register of Environmental Organisations.
​Donations to the Living Ocean Fund are tax deductible.

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LIVING OCEAN MEMBERSHIP

Join the Living Ocean team and become a member of our community of ocean warriors and carers. We will keep you posted on events and offers.
membership is an annual fee of $10. We have a large network of talent engaged in ocean care projects, citizen science and direct action events. All offers of assistance are welcome.

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LIVING OCEAN TRUST FUND

As well as the special funding causes below, Living Ocean operates a trust fund (button above) that can be sourced to support casual and special ocean conservation, care and awareness programs. Unless specified below, your generous donation goes into this operating fund.

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A LIVING OCEAN RESEARCH VESSEL
​BIG FUNDRAISING EVENT COMING SOON

THE LIVING OCEAN RESEARCH PITCH..SEEKING CORPORATE SPONSORS OR BENEFACTOR
SURVEY & RESEARCH BOAT FOR PITTWATER& BRISBANE WATERS & BEYOND
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Living Ocean is sourcing funds for a suitable research vessel to continue and expand its important research programs.
​These programs include:

• Whale Research - Approximately ten trips per season monitoring and recording  the migratory tracks of Humpback whales, to safeguard their migratory route against sand mining, fish farms, seismic testing and more.
• Citizen Science - undertaking several ocean-going excursions per year in partnership with schools and marine experts to conduct scientific research.

• No Plastic Please - continuing to expand this highly successful program in partnership with Tangaroa Blue.  To increase the collection and logging of macro and micro plastics from beach and ocean clean-ups.  Living Ocean aims to increase monitoring the impacts of plastics in our waterways.
• Coastal surveys - to continue and expand surveys of marine life in our coastal waters utilising Living Ocean’s new purpose-built software.
• For tax deductible donations and private or corporate sponsorship proposals please contact Living Ocean Co-Founder & President Robbi Newman +61 0 410374333 robbi@livingocean.org.au

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SHEARWATERS & PLASTIC RESEARCH 

SEABIRDS & PLASTIC INGESTION STUDY FUNDED BY LO

Seabirds & Plastic Research: Globally, more than 1400 marine species are negatively impacted by plastic debris in our oceans, with seabirds being one of the most at-risk groups. While many impacts are visually undeniable, such as entanglements, other impacts are difficult to see with the naked eye. But, just because you can't see what's happening, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Think: CO2 and climate change. With support from Living Ocean, our research group has used new and exciting techniques to investigate these sinister effects at the cellular level, gathering quantifiable data that will ensure policy makers appreciate the true scale of the plastics issue.
Learn more about our work here:Save Our Seabirds

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Clinical Pathology of Plastic Ingestion in Marine Birds and Relationships with Blood Chemistry
 Jennifer L. Lavers,Ian Hutton,Alexander L. BonD

Pollution of the environment with plastic debris is a significant and rapidly expanding threat to biodiversity due to its abundance, durability, and persistence. Current knowledge of the negative effects of debris on wildlife is largely based on consequences that are readily observed, such as entanglement or starvation. Many interactions with debris, however, result in less visible and poorly documented sublethal effects, and as a consequence, the true impact of plastic is underestimated. We investigated the sublethal effects of ingested plastic in Flesh-footed Shearwaters (Ardenna carneipes) using blood chemistry parameters as a measure of bird health. The presence of plastic had a significant negative effect on bird morphometrics and blood calcium levels and a positive relationship with the concentration of uric acid, cholesterol, and amylase. That we found blood chemistry parameters being related to plastic pollution is one of the few examples to date of the sublethal effects of marine debris and highlights that superficially healthy individuals may still experience the negative consequences of ingesting plastic debris. Moving beyond crude measures, such as reduced body mass, to physiological parameters will provide much needed insight into the nuanced and less visible effects of plastic.

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​Here also is a paper below with the results from research funded in part by Living Ocean. Thanks to all who donated, the primary schools and our members who donated directly. This is your result!!!

IMAGE BY TOM CARROLL