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The latest updates from the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge (IOCC) and its projects, people, and progress.

The Galapagos’ Charles Darwin Foundation Joins the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge to Implement Community-Based Monitoring and Safeguard Island Ecosystems
The Galapagos’ Charles Darwin Foundation Joins the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge to Implement Community-Based Monitoring and Safeguard Island Ecosystems

New research shows people, wildlife, and marine environment benefit when island-ocean connections are restored.
Linking land and sea through coordinated conservation efforts may offer unrealized and amplified benefits for biodiversity, human well-being, climate resilience, and ocean health and provide a microcosm for the untapped potential of ecosystem restoration on a larger scale.

Ambitious New Environmental Challenge Aims to Rewild 40 Globally Significant Island Ecosystems from Ridge to Reef by 2030
Island Conservation, Re:wild, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, the Government of Panama, and the Government of Palau Launch 2030 Island-Ocean Connection Challenge at Our Ocean Conference with $50 Million Secured