Posted by: Chris Gorell Barnes, Co-Founder, Blue Marine Foundation A central theme of the 2011 SLOW LIFE Symposium is the protection of our threatened oceans. Visitors from across the world travel to island resorts such as… more
Chris Gorell Barnes
Co-Founder,
BLUE Marine Foundation
Chris Gorell Barnes is the Co-Founder of the Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE), a UK based charity dedicated to fixing the largest solvable problem on the planet – the crisis in the oceans.
BLUE enables new partnership opportunities for the sea, working with the private sector to raise critical funds for marine conservation, and with governments to construct the right legislative framework for success.
In just three years, BLUE has brokered the creation of major marine protected areas in locations including the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, the largest fully protected marine reserve in the world and Turneffe Atoll on the Caribbean coast of Belize, the largest unprotected fragment of the world’s second largest barrier reef. In the UK, BLUE's pioneering Lyme Bay project brings together fishermen and scientists to achieve a sustainable level of fishing, and has been hailed as a 'world first' in marine conservation.
Chris was executive producer on the acclaimed film ‘The End of the Line’, the world’s first documentary about the devastating effect of overfishing. The film, coupled with Chris’s passion and belief in bringing together big business and good causes for mutual benefit, has already contributed to changes in fish sustainability policies of the British Government and major retailers, including Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and Pret-a-Manger.
Chris is a recognised thought-leader in new media, technology and advertising and a leading voice in online video and the future of multichannel technology. He is CEO of Adjust Your Set and a Non Executive Director of Eagle Eye Solutions.
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