"Environmentally friendly diving for a sustainable future."

What is Green Fins

The Green Fins project is initiated and coordinated by United Nations Environmental Programme, COBSEA's secretariat as part of the effort to increase public awareness and management practices that will benefit the conservation of coral reefs and reduce unsustainable tourism practices. This is done by dive operators agreeing to follow the Code of Conduct to the best of their ability. However there is so much more as it branches out to tackle local environmental issues that threaten livelihood and food security.

Where is Green Fins

There is an ever expanding network of dive operators in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, who are involved the project. Green Fins is managed in each country by the National Management Team. These teams are are governmental bodies and are supported by the UNEP designated Regional Coordinators, a UK charity called The Reef-World Foundation whose role is to focus on expanding the project to additional member countries in the East Asian Seas region and to strengthen the existing network.

The National Management Teams are responsible for expanding the network in their respective countries and to produce educational and public awareness materials while promoting the successes of the Green Fins members.

Greenfins.net

This website is used to coordinate between all participating countries. More information on each participating country including links to their individual websites can be found by clicking the tabs at the top of this page. This website is also used to manage the Assessments of all participating Green Fins members. This not only helps address major problems of the scuba and tourism industry on a larger scale but also demonstrates how effective the project is through monitoring annual improvements in dive operator’s environmental impacts.