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#38 Angie Brathwaite: How Blue Alliance Manages Marine Protected Areas
Marine conservation faces a tough reality: philanthropic grants are shrinking just as ocean crises accelerate. Drawing boundary lines only creates “paper parks” - marine protected areas lacking financial durability, enforcement, and authentic local ownership.
In this episode of Ocean Collaborations, Jan Maisenbacher sits down with Angelique “Angie” Brathwaite, Director of Conservation and Science at Blue Alliance (https://bluealliance.earth/), to unpack what scalable, self-sustaining ocean protection looks like on the ground.
With over two million hectares of coral reef under co-management across Indonesia, the Philippines, and Zanzibar, Blue Alliance bridges policy, science, and market realities. Angie outlines their pioneering model of “reef-positive enterprises” -initiatives like restorative sea cucumber aquaculture and regenerative ecotourism that generate commercial revenues to fund ongoing conservation, science monitoring, and local patrol teams.
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Crucially, Angie details the human side of impact: hiring local leaders, listening deeply to artisanal fishers, and merging technical science with ancestral knowledge.
For ocean changemakers, impact investors, and scientists seeking practical solutions beyond traditional donor cycles, this dialogue delivers an honest, pragmatic masterclass.
Tune in now to discover how innovative enterprise and deep collaboration are regenerating our ocean for the long haul.
Connect with Angie on LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelique-brathwaite70) https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelique-brathwaite70 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelique-brathwaite70)
Blue Alliance Links:
* Internet: https://bluealliance.earth/ (https://bluealliance.earth/)
* on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blue-alliance-mpa/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/blue-alliance-mpa/)
Angie’s Voice of the Ocean Music: Listen to Natural Mystic from Bob Marley on youtube here (watch it on Substack)
Podcast Ocean Collaborations is produced out of Switzerland by janmaisenbacher.com: https://janmaisenbacher.com/en/ocean-podcast/ (https://janmaisenbacher.com/en/ocean-podcast/)Subscribe on Substack, Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/4a3iqQ3Grj2rrcUNpaaEbi?si=9359ffcfd5524d39) or Apple Podcasts. (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ocean-collaborations/id1797113400)
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15 Sept 2026
#37 Jan Maisenbacher: Who Regenerates the People Doing the Marine Protected Area Work?
We talk constantly about regenerating the ocean - but who is regenerating the people doing the work?In my very first solo episode, I step behind the mic to get honest about ocean conference exhaustion, superficial networking, and change leader burnout.
How do we move from passive panels to transformative retreats and radical collaboration?
Tune in to Episode 37 for an intimate reflection on creating sanctuaries for impact, inner resilience, and what’s next for Ocean Collaborations in 2027.
If my collaboration invitation of this episode speaks to you, don’t hesitate to reach out: info@janmaisenbacher.com
Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janmaisenbacher/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/janmaisenbacher/)
More information about me: https://janmaisenbacher.com/en/about-jan-maisenbacher (https://janmaisenbacher.com/en/about-jan-maisenbacher/)
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27 Aug 2026
#36 Ihirau Piton: Pacific wisdom and community
action for ocean protection
What if marine conservation began not with another boundary on a map, but with a question: who has lived with this ocean, and what do they already know?
In this new episode of Ocean Collaborations, Jan Maisenbacher speaks with Ihirau Piton, a 23-year-old Tahitian anthropology student and Pacific youth leader. His starting point is disarmingly clear: “Protecting the ocean cannot come without protecting the people.”
Ihirau takes us inside Tiaki Moana (https://bluecradle.org/tiaki-moana/), a 2025 gathering that brought young people from across Oceania to French Polynesia to explore conservation beyond the usual marine protected area model. The conversations happened in an amphitheatre, on the beach, and long after the formal programme ended. The point was not only to exchange ideas, but to rebuild relationships across an ocean that connects communities often kept apart.
You’ll hear about rāhui: a Polynesian practice of temporarily restricting the use of a resource so it can recover. It is not a conservation “toolkit” to copy and paste. It belongs to a living cultural context -and raises a bigger question for all of us working in ocean regeneration: can policies succeed when they treat local people as an afterthought?
This is also an honest conversation about deep-sea mining, industrial fishing, colonial legacies, tourism, and the uneasy gap between protecting nature in principle and making a living in practice.
For anyone trying to build collaboration that is courageous, locally grounded and more than blue blah blah, this episode offers a needed reset.
Listen now - and stay with the question Ihirau leaves us with: what changes when we understand the ocean not as a place apart, but as part of who we are?
This is the third episode resulting from the media partnership with “One Ocean Science Congress” which happened in Nice 2025. Here are the other two episodes:#27 Alice Guittard: Advancing a Sustainable Blue Economy in the Black Sea (https://janmaisenbacher.substack.com/p/24-jorge-ramirez-participatory-ocean?r=38guwo)
#24 Jorge Ramirez: Participatory Ocean Science on Galapagos (https://janmaisenbacher.substack.com/p/27-alice-guittard-living-labs-advancing?r=38guwo)You are managing an ocean conference? Looking for a fitting media partner? Get in touch & let’s collaborate! info@janmaisenbacher.com
Linklist:
* Ihirau Piton on LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ihirau-piton-83827a285/) https://www.linkedin.com/in/ihirau-piton-83827a285/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ihirau-piton-83827a285/)
* Blue Cradle Projectpage: (https://bluecradle.org/tiaki-moana) https://bluecradle.org/tiaki-moana (https://bluecradle.org/tiaki-moana)
* Tiaki Moana Report: (https://bluecradle.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Tiaki-Moana-Report.pdf) https://bluecradle.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Tiaki-Moana-Report.pdf (https://bluecradle.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Tiaki-Moana-Report.pdf)
* Video Teaser (youtube): Guardians of the Ocean (watch it on Substack):
* Longer cinema documentary: (n.a. currently)
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