The Marine CoLABoration was initiated by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2015 to increase collaborative action and explore how to communicate the value of the ocean more effectively. The Marine CoLAB brings together large and small organisations with different skills and areas of expertise. Currently these are: ClientEarth, Fauna and Flora International, Forum for the Future, Funding Fish, Institute for European Environmental Policy, International Programme on the State of the Ocean/Comms Inc, Marine Conservation Society, New Economics Foundation, Thames Estuary Partnership and the Zoological Society of London. The Marine CoLAB’s aim is to build a more ‘ocean friendly’ society, where people share an understanding of our inextricable connection with the ocean and act