About Our Global Programs

Our Global Programs & Global Ambassador Adventures get to the heart of marine conservation issues, driving positive change for the ocean and the communities who rely upon it for survival. Our Global Program in Kovalam and Vizhinjam, Kerala - southern India, was launched in February 2017 with 6 Global Ambassadors and 2 PCFML staff facilitating an intensive two-week programs to determine a long-term Masterplan for the region, alongside the local community.

Our initial fact-finding mission was an enormous success and led to:

The release of our 5-year Masterplan for the region - focused on waste management, fisheries management and waterway remediation and addressing 14 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s);
The opening of our Marine Conservation Centre on Eve's Beach, Kovalam in April, 2018;
The employment of our full-time team in the region to run our centre and roll-out our initiatives from May, 2018.

Fisheries surveys and management Kerala India

Decentralised aquaponic and composting systems India

Our 2nd Global Ambassador Adventure took place in April 2019. Led by our local team, it further drove program outcomes and expanded international support for our initiatives.

Over the past 6 months our team in India have:

Worked with 32 households to segregate, clean and transport their recyclables, turning them into an economically viable commodity through sale to the informal waste sector;
Lobbied and WON on a single-use plastics ban across Kovalam’s beaches (to commence in 2020);
Collected and recycled over 60,000 pieces of plastic, which would have otherwise ended-up in the ocean;
Run over 80 educational programs in schools and with various stakeholders from the community;
Completed surveys across the region to identify baseline data on the state of fisheries;
Begun the construction of our decentralised Composting and Aquaponic (CAP) systems to manage waste, whilst providing a source of food and income for the local community.