Protecting the oceans from plastic pollution

Hello everyone,

I'm sharing some news on the preparation of our 2026 missions which will be launched in less than two months!
To illustrate the whole, some photos in PJ on our last mobilizations which allowed a beautiful spotlight of the association on several media like TF1, France Inter, France Bleu, Sud Ouest... 🙂.

🐟 Côté Loire Atlantique, Claire launches our new territory between study of the Loire and coastal mission.

The first mobilizations will take place very soon: antenna meeting and team training, mobilization around municipal elections, coffee-conference and already 3 waste collections planned!

🪸 In the PACA region, we're taking part in two working groups: a pond committee on the subject of industrial plastic granule pollution aimed at pooling knowledge and coordinating a territorial strategy + an inter-associative group led by Zero Waste Marseille.

🐚 In Nouvelle Aquitaine: On the Arcachon basin, lots of fieldwork with Fanny: a big post-storm citizen mobilization (France Bleu link) last weekend with two collections carried out, on the basin side and the ocean side + a collection campaign will be launched next week as part of a scientific follow-up on 6 areas identified in partnership with the Marine Park. A lot of garbage collected following the floods...

⛵ In parallel, le Kraken will set sail for Spain for a shipyard to prepare for a new season of Mediterranean calls!

Goodbye

As COP30 closes tomorrow, Wings of the Ocean launches a new awareness campaign for an essential reminder: our breath depends on the ocean. Just as fish need oxygen in the water, we need oxygen in the air, an oxygen more than half of which comes from the ocean. But the steady rise in our CO₂ emissions threatens this vital balance: the more carbon we release, the less the ocean can absorb and regulate the climate.

The oxygen we breathe comes mostly from the ocean. Accumulated over the years in the atmosphere, it comes from marine micro-organisms such as phytoplankton and zooplankton. Absorbing the carbon dioxide we produce threatens the balance of these micro-organisms, which are at the origin of the equilibrium of all marine biodiversity.

Alongside this campaign, also broadcast on France 3 and France 5, we officially ended our 2025 season with the annual Kraken team seminar at La Seyne-sur-Mer last week. An opportunity to look back on the successes of a year rich in challenges, with the United Nations Conference in Nice and the Year of the Sea announced by the government!

We'll send you some initial key figures for our projects on the next news item, but we can be proud.es of the collective impact of the actions we were able to carry out in 2025!

Thank you for supporting Wings via Dift and working alongside us for a waste-free Ocean.