Breathe Ocean Conservation

Breathe Ocean Conservation To promote ocean conservation &development & to act on initiatives that will create awareness of, and empowerment on, sustainable conservation solutions.

Breathe aims to eliminate throw away plastic pollution by working together with like minded organisations, inspiring public to create change and educating our future generations on sustainable practice. Breathe's focus is schools, predominantly primary schools. We believe that the youth are our future. If we can educate, inspire and promote change at a young age, our planet has a chance. We run monthly reef clean ups at Vetchies beach in Durban for the public to interact with marine life and see first hand the damage that plastic pollution has on our marine life. We are pioneers in new programmes such as our Marine Guide Development project starting in June 2022 supported by Oceans Alive. We believe in collaboration and working together with like minded organisations to bring about sustainable change together. We all have different spheres of influence and different strengths. If we combine these, our chance of success and sustainable change is much higher.

Join us and The Litterboom Project for International Coastal Clean up day on 19 September 2026. Clean ups, music, merch...
15/09/2026

Join us and The Litterboom Project for International Coastal Clean up day on 19 September 2026. Clean ups, music, merch and fun.

08/09/2026

Our marine guides are ready for the annual Trees & Seas Film Festival | TSFF happening later this month! We will be taking all our marine ecology learners to experience the Beachwood Mangroves Nature Reserve first hand. We cannot wait and neither can the kids!

Join us to celebrate international coastal clean up day with The Litterboom Project
03/09/2026

Join us to celebrate international coastal clean up day with The Litterboom Project

KZN, we're back on the sand.

Join us for our Umhlanga Beach Jam on World Cleanup Day, Saturday 19 September 2026

🕖 7AM – 10AM
đź“Ť Durban View Beach, Umhlanga

Come spend a few minutes cleaning your stretch with the TLP team. Music, good vibes, and a cleaner coastline to show for it.

Bring: closed shoes, sunblock, a hat, and a water bottle.

Massive thanks to our partners , Empact Group, Defender, Breathe Ocean Conservation, Beachwood Lifestyle Estate , Back2Nature, Adreach Group, , ARB Electrical Wholesalers and Ge**er Paper for making this happen, and to Tuffy Brands for supplying the bags.

See you on the sand 🌊

Meet the Creature of the Month ~ Compact Sea SpiderA tiny marine arthropod found in oceans worldwide, from shallow tide ...
01/09/2026

Meet the Creature of the Month ~ Compact Sea Spider

A tiny marine arthropod found in oceans worldwide, from shallow tide pools to deep reefs. It has a super small, compact body — often just a few millimeters across — with 4 pairs of long, spindly legs that make it look bigger than it is.

Harmless to humans. You’ll mostly spot them slowly "walking" on their stilt-like legs over sponges and seaweed, using a long proboscis to suck fluids from small invertebrates.

01/09/2026

Breathe went to Inanda dam on the weekend to do a reckie for an event next year! Watch this space for more information!

What a wonderful place for bird and nature lovers. We spotted over 15 different birds.

Happy spring from the team. We have a jam packed September for our annual Trees & Seas Film Festival | TSFF and other collabs with wessagreencoast The Litterboom Project and Durban Undersea Club

in case you haven't seen who we are- check out this video from Ocean Planet Media
31/08/2026

in case you haven't seen who we are- check out this video from Ocean Planet Media

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

21/08/2026
We are super honoured and proud to announce that we have won theMarine Conservation Education Organisation of the Year ...
17/08/2026

We are super honoured and proud to announce that we have won the

Marine Conservation Education Organisation of the Year 2026 - Southern Africa

AND

Ocean Sustainability Excellence Award 2026 - Southern Africa

Thank you MEA Markets for the recognition.

Breathe Conservation is one of the 2026 winners of the African Excellence Awards at MEA Markets.

15/08/2026

Despite no visibility and some blue bottles remnants, some of out volunteers still got wet and collected 2kg off the reef. The rest of us did a beach walk whilst learning about our creature and feature of the day
We collected 10kg off the reef and fun was had by all.

We even found some fishing line to initiate our 'stop the strangle' bin in partnership with WESSA

Thanks to Durban Undersea Club for the coffee and venue as always!

Join us this Saturday for our monthly reef clean up! We can't wait to share about the bearded fireworm and highlight the...
12/08/2026

Join us this Saturday for our monthly reef clean up! We can't wait to share about the bearded fireworm and highlight the impact of greenwashing.

Bring your own snorkel gear and be there 7:30!

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