Young Marine Explorers (YME) mission is to educate and inspire youth to become the leaders needed to address the challenges of The Bahamas. In order to do so, YME has developed a program to address the two underlying causes of environmental degradation. It involves educating, engaging, and inspiring youth through in-depth environmental education and leadership development. The YME program accomplishes this through experiential learning activities complimenting formal classroom lessons. YME experiential learning takes a non-traditional Bahamian approach to education through  activities, games, drama, art, and field exploration. 

The Ocean Classroom provides an interactive learning environment that allow youth to develop their leadership skills  and address prevalent environmental issues while inspiring them to develop solutions to  conservation problems facing The Bahamas.  Each Saturday during the school year students engage in activities that focus on communication, goal setting, presentation skills and identifying personal strengths and weaknesses. The above listed leadership development activities are integrated within environmental excursions such as snorkeling over coral reefs, exploring mangroves or identifying species of the rocky shore.

• GEF 2020 Strategy
• The GEF and the Sustainable Development Goals

Ecosystems. Not marine focused/related. Terrestrial learning and astronomy.
Environment and national park system
Every club chooses 4 topics that they will focus on each year. This allows each club to customize the programme based on their own interests, which includes marine, mangroves and coral ree

BREEF is a non-governmental nonprofit Bahamian foundation concerned with educating our people about the value of and need for conserving our marine environment.

BREEF’s initial efforts focused on raising public awareness among educators, youth, policy-makers and other key stakeholders about ways we impact our oceans ‘for better or worse’. Reaching out to the Ministry of Education, the idea was conceived to host an annual summer training workshop for teachers that would equip them with knowledge, skills and resources to transmit these important stewardship messages to successive generations of Bahamians.  Since the late 1990’s, the annual summer workshop has grown to become the flagship teacher training programme for marine conservation in the country.

BREEF is the leading public advocate on policy issues affecting the marine environment and sustainable fisheries.

Bahamas Protected is a three-year initiative to effectively manage and expand the Bahamian marine protected areas (MPA) network. It aims to support the Government of The Bahamas in meeting its commitment to the Caribbean Challenge Initiative (CCI); a regional agenda where 11 Caribbean countries have committed to protect 20 percent of their marine and coastal habitat by 2020. CCI countries have also pledged to provide sustainable financing for effective management of MPAs.

A collaborative effort between The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Bahamas National Trust (BNT) & Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF).

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems.  Since then, the GEF has provided over $20 billion in grants and mobilized an additional $88 billion in financing for more than 4000 projects in 170 countries.  Today, the GEF is an international partnership of 183 countries, international institutions, civil society organizations and the private sector that addresses global environmental issues.

• 25 Years of GEF: The Bahamas

Create programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its
inhabitants

Deliver marine education programs to communities and schools

The program was established in 2000 by the Coral Reef Conservation Act to protect, conserve, and restore the nation's coral reefs by maintaining healthy ecosystem function. We focus on impacts from the top three recognized global threats to coral reefs:

• Climate change (including ocean acidification)
• Land-based sources of pollution
• Unsustainable fishing practices

Our major focus is on marine protected areas where we:

• Work with regional initiatives to build marine protected area networks and enhance local management capacity to support coral reef conservation and the people that depend on them;
• Develop tools and practices to more effectively observe, predict, communicate, and manage the impacts from a changing climate; and
• Strengthen local and national capacity to reduce the impacts of fishing and pollution on coral reef ecosystems.

To conduct scientific field studies in the Bahamas to increase the understanding of species' biology and conservation needs.

To disseminate results that raises awareness and appreciation of marine mammals in the Bahamas and ultimately influences policy makers.

To remain a small professional non-profit organisation, proportional to the needs of the Bahamas.

The Department of Marine Resources is primarily responsible for the administration, management, and development of fisheries in The Bahamas. The department was created to administer, manage, and develop the fisheries sector as stipulated by the Fisheries Resources (Jurisdiction and Conservation) Act. The department is also tasked with enforcement of Fisheries Regulations, Marine Mammal Regulations and the Seafood Processing and Inspection Regulations.

SCRFA provides scientific and practical management information on marine fish aggregations to improve their protection and enhance their resiliance. Our methods manual, case studies, research and outreach all contribute to a better understanding of aggregations and the need to manage them.

Our Directors work globally in academic institutions, NGOs and government, and participate in international committees and at conferences and workshops to promote responsible stewardship of fish aggregations. We also provide training and support, and guide research. Ongoing projects involve engagement in the Asia-Pacific, Indian Ocean and the Caribbean.