ORRAA 2025 Action Report
Explore Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance’s 2025 Action Report. Blue Alliance is featured on page 23.
Sriwahyuni Salatun – A lifetime of love for the ocean
Sriwahyuni (Sri for short) Salatun’s journey to ocean protection started when she was just fifteen years old, a high school student in Balantak, Sulawesi.
Nature Transformation Fund – Milkywire | Klarna
Five years of funding initiatives tackling the interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and human development.
The Wild Side of 2025 – Celebrating the year’s many successes in the global rewilding movement
As we draw near to the end of this wild year, we celebrate the remarkable strides made in rewilding around the world. From Quolls to Hyenas, Seagrass to Whales, countless species are thriving, their home land-and-seascapes restoring, and as a result entire ecosystems returning to health across all continents! Rewilders are having a global impact; planting seeds of hope through a wide range of positive actions.
Eduardo Bolen – Creating a Culture of Care to Protect Northern Palawan’s Ocean
For Eduardo Bolen, Northern Palawan Enforcement Coordinator for Blue Alliance, patrolling these waters is more than just work, it is a way of life. Standing at the bow of a patrol boat, listening for distant engines and scanning for drifting nets, he is doing what he has dedicated much of his life to: protecting the ocean that sustains his home and the future of the people who depend on it.
From coral reefs to urban lakes: Insights from the field
Spending time in the field offers a perspective that no report or virtual meeting can replicate. As part of following the progress of the Nature Transformation Fund, I visited two of the projects we support in Indonesia and India. These visits are a crucial way to understand how our partners translate finance into tangible environmental outcomes and how local communities, ecosystems, and science come together in practice.
Delivering on Blue Finance: What’s Working and What Needs to Scale
Blue Alliance is featured in this Wildlife Conservation Society article on Blue Finance. ” Blue Alliance is using blended finance to fund early investments into coral reef-positive businesses that are associated with marine protected areas in Indonesia, Tanzania, and the Philippines.”
Building Resilience Through Protection – Humanity Insured 2025 Learning Report
We’re excited to share Humanity Insured’s first Learning Report, ‘Building Resilience through Protection.’ We are proud to see the story of Merly Bunquin, Treasurer of local fisherfolk association and beneficiary of one of Blue Alliance’s livelihood projects featured on page 36.
Field Visit to the Banggai Islands
Our team recently had the privilege of welcoming partners from Milkywire, UK Blue Planet Fund, and BNP Paribas for a two-day field visit in Banggai, Indonesia. Together, we travelled from Luwuk to the remote community of Lumbi Lumbia aboard our low-impact ecotourism vessel, the Bajau, operated by Nomad Archipelago.
Asha Bakar Mtwana – A female ranger breaking the mould and protecting the ocean.
Before most of her neighbours have stepped outside, Asha Bakar Mtwana is already out walking the coastline alongside fellow rangers, scanning for footprints, turtle tracks, abandoned nets, or anything that might hint at illegal fishing activities. By afternoon, she is boarding a patrol boat alongside fellow Blue Alliance PECCA rangers.