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10 Years of Ocean Exploration: A Decade of Discovery — The Story of Our Impact
Ten years ago, Nekton was founded on three convictions: that the ocean — the foundation of all life on Earth — was largely undiscovered, woefully unprotected, and critically undervalued; that knowledge of ocean life was being generated too slowly, shared too unequally, and communicated too rarely to the public and to governments; and that a small, agile organisation dedicated to building that knowledge and sharing it could help change this.
What followed was a decade of exploration.
The work was undertaken with a global alliance of scientists, governments, and partner organisations — co-designed, peer-reviewed, and openly shared. This report is the record of that decade. It is less about what Nekton has done, and more about what has been achieved — on behalf of the ocean and the species that live within it — by dedicated scientists from many countries, and by all those who make their work possible.
