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Develop the first innovative mooring buoys that help regenerate biodiversity
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Pure Ocean is an international endowment fund based in Marseille and Lorient, France. Its main mission is to support innovative applied research projects to better understand and protect marine biodiversity and ecosystems, and to find sustainable solutions to threats to the ocean. Pure Ocean mobilizes and educates the public about endangered ecosystems through conferences, sporting challenges, and by empowering people to act with “La Goutte Bleue”, the movement to encourage waste clean-ups.
Presentation of the project
This low carbon impact concept, employing locally-sourced reused materials, could be easily replicated worldwide.
Objectives
- Design a subsurface mooring buoy to preserve posidonia meadows and promote local biodiversity.
- Avoid the use of individual anchors
- Create an educational underwater trail
Water protection
Brewed with a pinch of sea salt, under the watchful eyes of our production manager, a former
marine biologist, The Hop Wave inspires a journey to the heart of the blue planet.
Social Impact Projects
A symbol of our childhood, La Fraternal, organic lemonade from Menton, invites us to relive our sweet memories of yesteryear. Alcohol-free drink. Citrus bouquet on the nose, smooth on the palate with a hint of acidity.
Biodiversity Projects
Flying Hop is brewed with respect for ancestral traditions, using hops grown by the A LA FÛT brewery on its own land in Cagnes-sur-Mer. In our organic hop field, a symbol of biodiversity, 20 beehives watch over the development of our crops. IPA-type beer, 6% alcohol. Light copper color, fruity nose (red fruits) and creamy head.
Study and research on sperm whales to protect them from human activities
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Sperm whales, the largest toothed cetaceans in the Mediterranean, inhabit the western basin and are found in large numbers in the Pelagos sanctuary, between France, Monaco and Italy. The sperm whale is an excellent indicator species for the health of the open sea ecosystem, especially in the deep sea where its prey, squid, live.To measure the impact of these disturbances on the number and distribution of sperm whales, it is necessary to have a precise idea of inter- and intra-group exchanges, and thus to follow the evolution of social structures at the individual scale.
Presentation of the project
We use a sound and video recorder specially designed for sperm whales. Capable of unambiguously attributing a sound emission to an individual within a group, it allows us to associate its sound emission with its behavior, but also to search for an individual sound signature. This non-intrusive method (the device is worn by a diver who observes from a distance) meets the requirements of reducing cetacean stress.
Objectives
- To make individual visual underwater identity cards of sperm whales, including sex, essential information to understand the intra-group dynamics and exchanges between groups.
- To define some social structures: are they the same as those we have identified off Mauritius.
- Understand individual relationships and their evolution in social structures.
- To search for the sound signature of the Mediterranean clans as well as the individual sound signature within the groups encountered.
- To contribute to the counting of the Mediterranean population from the underwater identity cards and individual sound signatures.
Help post maternity single mothers living in Villa Gardenia social shelter
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Founded in 1949, the Montjoye Association is an association under the law of 1901 recognized as being of general interest. It works in the Alpes-Maritimes department in three fundamental fields: child and family protection, social and professional integration, solidarity support and active citizenship.
Each year, it helps nearly 13,000 socially vulnerable people in the department. Its 11 services are divided into 3 poles that promote the reception and support of minors and parents, and cover the fields of child protection and entry into active life: SOCIO-JUDICIAL POLE / ACCOMMODATION CENTRE / EDUCATIONAL PREVENTION AND INTEGRATION
Presentation of the project
Villa Gardenia is a shelter for women in pre or post-maternity situations. Those women are in a precarious situation, victim of domestic violence or family violence, they suffer from a lack of housing.
The residence currently welcomes 12 women between 22 and 49 years old and 20 children.
Each family has its own studio. There is also a collective part to exchange, recreate links and weave solidarity between families.
The project is to extend this help to more women victim of violence. Indeed, rehabilitation of the premises must be done.
Objectives
- Rehabilitation of premises
- Increase the premises' capacity from 12 to 20 women and their children
Financing medical equipment for sick children
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Founded in 1888, its main mission is to "receive all children, without condition of resources and without distinction of religion or nationality".The Lenval Foundation has been able to modernize and adapt to the evolution of pediatrics, to better diagnose, relieve and cure children.
Presentation of the project
Pediatric brain tumors, scoliosis, disability surgery, these surgical procedures deserve what's best. Technological innovation is an issue for the securing of the surgeries, the attractiveness of healthcare jobs, and for ensuring our excellence to our young children and teenagers. With 5000+ surgical procedures per year, neurosurgery, orthopedics, and ENT require a multidisciplinary surgical navigation console.
Objectives
Facilitate and secure high-precision surgical procedures. Last generation equipment offer increased performances and are open to multidisciplinarity
In the face of climate change and the challenges facing alpine pastures, what future awaits wolves ?
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The wolf, Canis lupus lupus, a mythical species that has been back in the Mercantour since 1992, is the best representative of these victims of contradictory conservation strategies, and as such, its future its future is still not assured in 2024.
Presentation of the project
Since the end of 2020, the ARCHE DE BEYLA association, created in memory of a young Canadian wolf, has been following the wolves' tracks and sharing their experiences with local farmers and children. These exchanges have proved highly positive, fostering a better co-existence between wolves and people. Knowledge eliminates the fear and loneliness felt by farmers, who are often misunderstood by the general public. The wolf monitoring project was thus born out of the need for knowledge that farmers feel to live better with wolves. It's a need that has become even more urgent in an age of recurring natural disasters.
Objectives
- Identify the number of wolves in the territory / quantify packs
- Draw a map of their movements
- Determine the needs and actions required to promote ecosystem resilience and thus reduce the factors triggering breeder/wolf conflict
- Co-construction of the history of man and wolf through the publication of a book, awareness-raising activities and educational workshops in partnership with breeders and other local players.
European project for the protection of the hermit butterfly a pilot site
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The Domaine des Courmettes is a 600-hectare natural site owned by the Amiral de Coligny association. This site is exceptional from a natural, geological, historical, architectural and landscape point of view, with a view over the whole of the Côte d'Azur and the Mercantour (at the summit of the Pic des Courmettes).
Presentation of the project
The Hermit is a butterfly that was common throughout Europe and for the last 20 years it has been disappearing at a worrying rate (in France, it has disappeared from 45 departments in 20 years). It is now classified as endangered in the PACA region and vulnerable in France. The causes of its disappearance are not known, two hypotheses are put forward and need to be confirmed : abandonment of pastoralism (it is a species that likes low vegetation), and presence of chemical pollutants in the plants that the caterpillars eat.
Objectives
Look for caterpillars of the species to identify the plants on which the caterpillars feed and the areas where the species breeds
To carry out a scientific protocol named CMR (Capture Marking Recapture) whose objective is to evaluate the size of the population on the site, the capacity of dispersion of the species and the average life span of the adults
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