AfriSeas
Innovative African Solutions to Global Ocean Challenges
WHO ARE AFRISEAS?
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AfriSeas can be considered the unmbrella parent name for two entities based in Cape Town, South Africa. AfriSeas Solutions (Pyt) Ltd. is a specialist ocean and coastal consulting and advisory company, while the AfriSeas Foundation is an aligned not for profit company, currently under development. With a global reach in terms of project portfolios, AfriSeas was established by marine scientist Ken Findlay to focus on the balancing of the ocean wealth (ocean natural capital and associated asset resource-use) and ocean health (pressures on ocean systems) nexus. Having been involved in marine mammal conservation projects for some years (including projects centred on species and populations at Critically Endangered levels where vectors of decline are largely expanding ocean economies), Ken became increasingly aware that unless the "bigger picture" challenges of the interaction of people and the oceans (the human - ocean nexus) were being addressed, projects, systems and species were "dead in the water". AfriSeas focusses on that "bigger picture" scale in addressing ocean challenges in terms of ocean governance, sustainability and inclusivity.
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AFRISEAS SOLUTIONS (PTY) LTD.
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AfriSeas Solutions (Pty) Ltd., established in April 2023, is an entrepreneurial ocean and coastal consulting and advisory company based in Cape Town, South Africa that focusses on addressing global ocean challenges through a distinctive African perspective. With a core focus on the underpinning of integrated ocean management, sustainable ocean development, and adaptive ocean governance through complex ocean accounting and Ocean Sustainability Programmes, AfriSeas Solutions aims to provide integrated, innovative, and locally relevant solutions to the challenges facing the governance of Africa’s blue economies, oceans and ocean-resource use.
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THE AFRISEAS FOUNDATION
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The AfriSeas Foundation is a not for profit organisation under establishment that will carry out activities outside of the commercial AfriSeas Solutions (Pty) Ltd. space. As with AfriSeas Solutions (Pty) Ltd. the Foundation is dedicated to the sustainable management and protection of the Earth's oceans, specialising in promoting robust ocean governance, advancing blue economy development, and fostering ocean sustainability planning. However, the Foundation is to be focussed on the non-commercial research, training and outreach needs, opportunities and challenges in the ocean space.
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