Healthy Oceans Depend on Healthy Islands
Outsized benefits of
the IOCC
The Island-Ocean Connection Challenge (IOCC): A global initiative by Island Conservation, Re:wild, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
The IOCC is a volunteer collective of NGOs, governments, funders, scientists, individuals, and island communities dedicated to restoring and rewilding 40 globally significant island-ocean ecosystems by 2030.
Indigenous wisdom and emerging science
Indigenous Peoples and island communities have long understood and managed their natural resources in the context of island-to-sea connections.
Island and marine ecosystem elements cycle into one another, sharing nutrients vital to the plants and animals within them. Fish from the oceans feed birds that travel great distances to remote islands. Those birds deposit nutrients on islands, creating flourishing vegetation and feeding nutrients back into ocean habitats, plants, and animals. The entire process then begins again.
Our Projects
News
Chile’s Robinson Crusoe Island and Peru’s Chincha Norte Island Join Global Challenge for a Healthy Ocean
The Island-Ocean Connection Challenge (IOCC) announced today at the United Nations Ocean Conference the addition of two new islands—Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, in the Juan Fernández Archipelago, and Chincha Norte, Peru, in the Guano Islands—to its ambitious campaign. The addition of these islands brings the total number of IOCC projects to 22.
Our Partners
Project Partners & Funders
• American Bird Conservancy
• BirdLife South Africa
• Charles Darwin Foundation
• Cookson Adventures
• Danny Faure Foundation
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Ebiil Society (Palau)
• Global Island Partnership (GLISPA)
• Government of Chile
• Government of the Dominican Republic
• Government of Ecuador
• Government of the Marshall Islands
• Government of Palau
• Government of Panama
• Island Conservation
• The Katherine and Peter Dolan Family Foundation
• Leo Model Foundation
• Marisla Foundation
• The Mouse-Free Marion Project
• North Equity Foundation
• Ocean Finance Company
• Oceankind
• Rare
• Re:wild
• Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
• UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Société d’Ornithologie de Polynésie (Manu)
• Sonsorol State, Palau
• Wanderlust Fund