Welcome to Ocean Eye

Our technology platform facilitates micro payments from marine biodiversity sightings to coastal communities creating a win-win for conservation and communities. We are now expanding globally and looking for impactful project sites.

A unique marine conservation platform

Our solution responds to the crisis of marine biodiversity loss, and global inequality and enables climate adaptation finance to vulnerable coastal communities.

Ocean Eye is used by responsible marine tourists and operators.

We are a first-of-its-kind solution that enables the tourism sector and marine biodiversity enthusiasts to contribute to species protection, science and the social well-being of the communities.

  Our Marine biodiversity conservation platform combined with our proprietary technology facilitates micropayments from marine biodiversity sightings to coastal communities. It creates a win-win for conservation and communities. We are now expanding globally and looking for impactful project sites and tourism partners.

Ocean Eye is used by responsible marine tourists and tourism operators globally. It offers transparent and equitable financial incentives to stakeholders in support of effective marine biodiversity conservation and provides sustainable finance for conservation and communities.

Together we can fight the triple threat of biodiversity loss, climate crisis and global inequity.

Easy steps to become an Ocean hero!

Through Ocean Eye, marine tourists can take action to protect the marine animals they love. This is a unique tool to empower small actions to reverse nature loss and ensure a positive impact on the environment and the communities they visit and care about. Follow us on social media for more information on how to access and use our platform.

Off-shore and remote biodiversity data collection with Ocean Eye

One of the big challenges with marine research is the remote nature of off-shore areas and the large cost involved in visiting and exploring these areas for data collection and science. As a result, marine science and conservation largely need to catch up to that of...

World Ocean Day and the hope of small actions in restoring ocean life

We are living amongst ever-intensifying news about the Ocean’s heating up, the bleaching of coral reefs in many parts of the world, and biodiversity declines. It is taking more and more concentrated effort to focus on positive news, innovations and solutions that are...

Ocean Eye joins the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance as a Project Delivery Partner

Ocean Eye is excited to announce we have joined the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) as a grantee and Project Delivery Partner. This partnership will allow us to highlight and grow Ocean Eye’s unique innovation channeling ecosystem payments to coastal...

Chasing the Beauty – Ocean Eye NFT collection

Ocean Eye NFT collection was launched as a series of 10 NFT photographs in a collection called ‘Ocean Eye - Chasing the Beauty’ - taken by the Award Winning photojournalist and Ocean Eye associate Paul Hilton.  The NFTs were minted on the Ethereum blockchain and are...

Ocean Eye v.2 launched

We are excited to announce that our new V2 of the Ocean Eye platform is now available online for anyone to sign up and use.  The updated product now includes the following upgrades.  Full financial transfer capacity  We integrated Stripe technology with Ocean Eye so...

Ocean Eye wins World Economic Forum UpLink top innovator award in sustainable tourism category

Ocean Eye presented with a sustainable tourism award by WEF In July 2022  Ocean Eye was selected as a World Economic Forum (WEF) UpLink top innovator in the Sustainable Coastal Tourism category together with  11 other innovations that are working towards  making...

Ocean Eye is one of the most promising innovations in a long-time that can help bring solutions to critical issues of marine wildlife capture and trade from shark finning to unsustainable hunting of all marine species

Paul Hilton

Conservation photo Journalist