The 8th June is World Oceans Day.
@WorldOceanDay
This year, 2025, the action theme is Catalyzing Action for Our Ocean & Climate.
The World Oceans Day website has 12 months of action we can all take, one a month. This is a way of life, a lifestyle - and we can all get involved. The day's organisers and World Ocean Day Youth Advisory Council and partners are working to develop more opportunities for ocean & climate action.
At the UN Biodiversity Conference in December 2022 (COP15), our world leaders committed to protect at least 30% of lands, waters and oceans by 2030, in order to create a healthy ocean with lots of wildlife and to stabilise the climate.
Crucially, the 30x30 will protect our planet’s life support systems – everything connects. At the moment, less than 17% of land and 8% of the ocean around the world is protected.
Now, to get involved in World Ocean Day 2025, there’s plenty you can do – and some of it will take you no time at all!
Share your opinion and information about it – there’s an image QR code on World Ocean Day you can add to any flyer, poster or presentation slide to invite which means you can share why you care about protecting lands, water and ocean.
Use the Action Guide!
There’s an action guide to help you spread the word about 30x30 – tell people about this movement to protect 30% of lands, water and oceans by 2030.
There are images as well that you can download from the website with different themes such as animals, sports and recreation, whales and fish, divers, penguins, sharks, fish, clean-ups, the climate and so on. Encourage dolphin lovers to help dolphins have a safe place in the ocean with an image you can download, so whether it matters to you for the wildlife, for livelihoods, for the beauty of the earth, for your spirituality – or places to rest, relax and enjoy leisure time, there’s an image for you!
Attend an event if you can. There are lots of events around the world listed on the World Ocean Day website – or come up with your own event.
Find out what local conservation groups are doing near you and see what you can do to help them. They may not be actively promoting World Ocean Day themselves but you could see what is going on in your area to hit the 30x30 target.
Support an appeal in your area or somewhere in the world which is part of the 30x30 target. Every square matters.
Whatever you do, please do something. Every action helps.