Positive Change For Marine Life Limited, formed in in the NSW Northern Rivers region in 2012, is a not-for-profit registered corporation with a four member board of directors which has a stated community driven mission to empower ocean action, developing long-term initiatives that benefit the sea and the people who rely on it for survival.
Now headquartered in Queensland, it has teams on the ground in Australia (where it first was founded), India and Solomon Islands. These teams are made up of conservation scientists, community engagement specialists, spatial mapping & data specialists, as well as members of the volunteer and intern community - often marine biology or conservation science students.
Positive Change for Marine Life has also partnered groups in Brazil, Japan, Indonesia and Seychelles for specific projects.
Their work appear to complement the work of other Australian environmental groups, such as the NSW Nature Conservation Council.
Positive Change for Marine Life Limited's annual report and financial statement show it to be a responsible ad stable corporation.
However an overbearing, belligerent and volatile 47th President of the United States of America on the day of his inauguration unleashed a policy which resulted in this.......
ECHO, 5 February 2025:
With US President Trump axing funding for aid programs across the globe, it’s also forced a marine conservation group to start laying off staff and stop work while they ‘work around the clock to fill the $300,000 gap that has been created’.
Positive Change for Marine Life co-founder and CEO, Karl Goodsell, told The Echo the not-for-profit, formed in Byron Shire, and most of its Australian employees are located in the North Coast.
‘We started as a small, volunteer-led org in 2011 off the back of work that myself and the cofounder were doing in Japan around sustainable fisheries, dolphin hunting and shark finning issues. We registered in 2012 and have since grown to run programs in seven countries, with teams now in Australia, India and the Solomon Islands who focus on turning waste into wealth, rewilding coastal floodplains and coral reefs and developing sustainable fisheries within some of the world’s marine biodiversity hotspots,’ says Goodsell.
The Trump administration, under Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has frozen funds of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), impacting millions across the planet. It’s also put lives at risk in third-world countries, with food monitoring programs being reportedly defunded..... [my yellow highlighting]
Read the full article at
https://www.echo.net.au/2025/02/marine-conservation-group-hit-by-trump-funding-cuts/
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