Ocean Eye provides a new tool for radical collaboration between the global marine tourism sector, tourists, coastal communities and other stakeholders. We operate in marine biodiversity hotspots and create partnerships with marine tourism operators.

Through tourist donations for animals sighted, we set up coastal community projects that support sustainable development, education and environmental protection. We also partner with existing NGOs projects and provide sustainable finance for their initiatives.

The data we collect through our platform (citizen science) is provided to local authorities, scientists and others to improve marine management.

The data is also used to create a credible baseline for potential nature credit approaches that can provide additional conservation and community income from increasing biodiversity numbers.

Over time, the value of marine animals sighted for small micro-payments will exceed the value of the animal if killed and sold just once. This educates the communities about the value of these animals alive and supports them to sift fishing practices to other less endangered and critical species to the ecosystem. 

The financial transfers are securely administrated by our platform. The community and projects have their interphase of the platform where they can view in real-time the animal sightings made and money donated.

Our platform costs are 20%, so 80% of the money donated goes directly to the projects. This provides a much higher return directly to the community than any of the existing carbon or biodiversity projects.