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Seagrass Meadows

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  • Completed

Methana Paths Certification: Phase 1

Support of Methana’s historical walking paths certification, using international hiking standards to protect the landscape and foster year-round, low-impact tourism.
  • Completed

Posidonia Oceanica: Our Valuable Underwater Forests

An educational project that introduced students and the local community to the ecological importance of Posidonia Oceanica meadows.
  • Completed

On the Watch: Assessing Bird Populations in Southern Aigina

Through scientific monitoring, community training and school engagement, the project links biodiversity data with public awareness, strengthening local capacity to protect habitats under growing development and tourism pressure.
  • Completed

MedCleanUp in Porto Cheli

Expanding the circular fishing gear prevention model to a new Argosaronic port.
  • Ongoing

Grove Guardians

A long-term guardianship framework for the Ancient Olive Grove of Aegina, combining ecological research, legal tools, and community stewardship to strengthen climate resilience and landscape protection.
  • Ongoing

Watching Boat Pressure from Space

Use of satellite imagery to map leisure anchoring pressure on seagrass meadows, producing spatially explicit evidence to inform sustainable marine management and policy decisions.
  • Ongoing

Methana Paths Certification: Phase 2

Support of Methana’s historical walking paths certification, using international hiking standards to protect the landscape and foster year-round, low-impact tourism.
  • Ongoing

Alien marine species: Invading the Mediterranean waters

This project places students at the centre of research and public awareness on alien marine species in Poros, connecting education, science, and the local marine community.
  • Ongoing

WATERSCAPES – Reflections of a threatened equilibrium

By combining research, community engagement, and policy dialogue to strengthen long-term water resilience on the island, this project addresses the freshwater scarcity challenge on Aegina.
  • Ongoing

Be Water, My friend II

Strengthening freshwater resilience awareness in Aegina through art-led, experiential education, making local water cycles visible and tangible within an early childhood education setting.

OUR APPROACH

We take a place-based approach, strengthening our regional network through collaboration, knowledge exchange and practical support to address environmental challenges on the ground.

STRATEGIC PROGRAMMES

We co-design targeted programmes with trusted local, national, and international partners to respond to priority environmental challenges and deliver measurable, long-term impact.

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COMMUNITY INITIATIVES

We identify and fund high-potential grassroots initiatives, offering catalytic support to translate strong local ideas into tangible and lasting benefits for ecosystems and communities.

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GR.O.W.TH. SUPPORT

We strengthen local organisations through mentoring, practical training and networking through our Grassroots Organisations for Wider Thriving (GR.O.W.TH.) initiative.

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OUR STRATEGY

Our strategy combines local knowledge, scientific data, and resource mobilisation to maximise impact on the ground.

Mapping Challenges

We start by listening. Through scientific research, thematic studies, field visits and dialogue with local residents, we identify environmental pressures and opportunities for meaningful action across the region.

Raising Funds
& Resources

We mobilise support from individuals, foundations, and aligned businesses committed to preserving the region’s natural and cultural wealth. These resources are channeled into locally grounded initiatives that generate lasting value for communities and nature.

Direct
Local Impact

We work alongside local actors to turn ideas into action. Through grants, partnerships and tailored support, we scale practical solutions that protect nature and strengthen community resilience, engaging institutions, public bodies, NGOs and businesses to amplify impact.

OUR PARTNERS

At every level, our partners are central to our impact. Together, we work to deliver meaningful environmental change across the region.

LEFTERIS ARAPAKIS

ENALEIA

Through our partnership with AEF, we are sparking real change in how discarded fishing gear is handled in the Argosaronic Gulf, shifting local behariour and contributing to marine protection.

FAY ORFANIDOU

KATHETI

Together with AEF, we’ve successfully expanded research, raised awareness and mobilised the local community in Poros, Troizinia and Methana, to safeguard the Argosaronic marine ecosystems.

IOANNIS GIOVOS

ISEA

With AEF’s support, we have expanded our research in the Argosaronic Gulf, gaining invaluable insights into the state of Posidonia oceanica meadows.

Everywhere you look there are brilliant, passionate people working to create positive environmental change.

Small amounts of funding, strategically directed, can supercharge this work – as we are seeing across the places in which we have created these funds.

Ben Goldsmith

Conservation Collective Founder

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