Explore
The Earth is a blue planet. The Ocean covers 70.8% of its surface, drawing and connecting continents. Due to its biodiversity and size, it is at the heart of major planetary balances. Under anthropic pressure from overfishing, multiple pollution and global warming, it is urgent to explore this environment to understand and protect it as quickly as possible, as well as talk about and exploit it in a sustainable manner within the framework of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Sustained challenges of knowledge
Keeping the planet’s global health in mind, the Tara Ocean Foundation, together with its scientific consortia partners, focuses its energy and sponsors’ support on exploring marine biodiversity — which is still poorly understood — and studying the major impacts of climate change, multiple pollution and human activities on its health.
Our scientific publications
Our scientific boats
Going to sea, spending time sailing on the Ocean, telling its beauty and fragility, and sharing the human adventure to convince and simply give access to this environment to researchers is one of the challenges of this century.
The schooner Tara
A schooner designed for scientific research and defence of the environment. The Tara has been sailing the seas and oceans of the world since 1989 to discover the ocean floor.
Tara Polar Station
A drifting polar scientific base dedicated to the long-term study of the Arctic until 2045.