Snorkel For Good in 2025
In 2025, our ocean adventures carried us across the globe, from swimming alongside humpback whales in the Dominican Republic to drifting beside towering walls of coral in the Banda Sea. It has been an extraordinary year in the water!
Yet 2025 has also been a challenging year for the ocean. As climate change progresses we are seeing evidence of its impacts globally. We feel incredibly fortunate to visit places where life remains abundant and ecosystems continue to thrive, and we believe that privilege comes with responsibility. That belief is why we created Snorkel for Good. Since 2023, every single guest who has joined us on tour has snorkeled for good! For each of our bookings, $100 is donated directly to one of our trusted charity partners: organizations working hard to protect marine life and ocean ecosystems.
In 2025 alone, thanks to each and every one of our guests, we were able to donate $57,500 USD to ocean conservation efforts.
As we look ahead to another year of exploration beneath the surface, we pause to reflect on 2025 and how these funds have helped our charity partners continue to advocate for the places we love.
Manta Trust is a conservation charity dedicated to protecting manta and devil rays worldwide. Known collectively as mobulid rays, all ten species are currently classified as endangered as a result of their overexploitation. Their greatest threat comes from poaching, driven by demand for their gill plates, used in traditional Chinese medicine, and their fins, which are sold at high value prices in countless fish markets.
2025 marked a major milestone for manta conservation. Manta Trust launched its #SaveTheMantas campaign and successfully secured the highest level of protection for all manta and devil ray species under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). This landmark legislation makes it internationally illegal to harvest or sell any mobulid ray products. This monumental step forward gives us hope for a future where mobulid populations are thriving across all oceans and seeing a manta ray glide past us on a snorkel is not such a rare occasion.
The Misool Foundation has transformed what was once a shark-finning camp into a 300,000-acre marine reserve at the heart of Raja Ampat, where biomass has increased by 248% since its establishment in 2007.
Every year, the Misool Foundation continues to safeguard the Raja Ampat coral reefs, and 2025 was no exception.
Misool Foundation’s 2025 by Numbers:
25,953 coral fragments planted
1,241 m² of Reef Restored
51,457 kg of Recyclables and Waste collected through our Community Recycling Program
174 lessons provided to high school students in the local communities
13 endangered leopard sharks released in the Misool Marine Reserve
But Misool Foundation is so much more than these numbers they understand the vital importance of community involvement in conservation. By employing locals to run projects and educating school children in environmental issues and conservation solutions they hand the power of environmental advocacy back to the community that depends on it. The short film below, beautifully showcases this ethos: it features one of Misool Foundation’s coral gardeners Murid as he introduces his daughter, Kyra, to the reef he helps restore — a reminder that conservation is always about the future.
The Reef World Foundation bridges the gap between marine tourism and conservation by creating a framework for tourism operators to assure they are working with the environment, not against it. Financially and often personally invested marine tourism operators face an uncertain future as each year we brace for another hot summer of rising ocean temperatures and unpredictable ramifications for ocean ecosystems. The Reef World Foundation allows operators to be part of the conversation and action to assure a future for the oceans that provide their livelihoods.
In 2025 they produced a Global Coral Bleaching response toolkit that enables marine tourism businesses to track coral bleaching at the sites they visit and report it to a global database. This platform not only supports a deeper understanding of coral responses to warming oceans, but also fosters collaboration, allowing operators to share strategies, stories, and solutions with one another.
Additionally, over the past year The Reef World Foundation has been onboarding, educating and influencing businesses, policy makers, tourists and students to work, live and act sustainably.
At a time when climate response seems messy and unclear, the Reef World Foundation is helping streamline and unite our efforts, all with a shared goal: a healthy planet.
Thrive Conservation is a charity based in Indonesia, that focuses on the next generation as the key stakeholders in the future of the planet. They do this by empowering young Indonesians to address overlooked environmental issues on land and in the ocean. 2025 was a big year for Thrive Conservation with many achievements to be proud of.
Loss of biodiversity: the overall number of species found on the planet, is a major consequence of issues such as habitat loss, pollution and overfishing. Thrive Conservation is tackling this complex matter through a number of avenues.
Thrive is a founding and main implementing partner for StAR Project Indonesia. An initiative that is restoring shark biodiversity in our oceans by rearing, hatching and subsequently releasing Indo-Pacific leopard sharks in Raja Ampat Marine Park. The project released 29 juvenile leopard sharks in 2025, bringing the cumulative total to over 50 since inception.
In 2025, Thrive continued advancing with their ongoing manta ray monitoring program, conducted on and around Rote island. They successfully attached their first satellite tag on an oceanic manta ray as well as the smallest whale shark ever tagged in Indonesia, with tags programmed for 4 to 6 months. Using this data Thrive can advocate for the creation of Marine Protected Areas and consult on effective conservation measures that boost biodiversity.
Habitat restoration is a key conservation method for tackling loss of biodiversity, so in 2025 alone, Thrive has hosted community mangrove planting events, planting 670 seedlings, facilitated the training and implementation of local rangers to monitor sea turtle nesting habitat And In Lohaen, sustainable seaweed farming expanded from 11 to 20 fishers.
Thrive projects are a collaboration of the entire local community. They use community engagement to ensure the longevity and sustainability of their projects.
Bite-Back is a charity dedicated to changing the way sharks and rays are perceived by humans: not as man-eating monsters but as vitally important animals, without which the balance of our ecosystem is threatened to fall apart.
In 2025 Bite-Back launched an investigation that showcases how little we know about the seafood we buy at the supermarket. Through extensive research Bite-Back is exposing the highly destructive fishing methods that lead to the death of 1000s of shark and ray species. These fishing methods are commonplace for the vessels that catch the fish we consumers buy at supermarkets on a daily basis.
The potential benefit to the marine environment is enormous. When you consider that UK households consume one million cans of tuna every single day and that only 20% of those are currently pole-and-line caught, it means the charity has 800,000 opportunities a day to change purchasing habits—and to save countless marine animals from unnecessary death.
It is very common for us not to know the source of our food and the methods used to get it to our plates. This Bite-Back campaign is one of many required to allow transparency in the way we consume.
Final Thoughts
We are immensely proud to support marine conservation programs such as these and even prouder to witness their incredible work.
Looking forward to 2026, Snorkel For Good will be supporting some new and exciting conservation initiatives! To find out more about each charity and their incredible work, as well as lots more snorkeling content, keep an eye out for our annual magazine soon available to order!
Once again a huge thank you to our Snorkel Venture community for your enthusiasm for everything ocean and for continuing to join us on tour, without which none of these donations would have been possible!
