Our impact
Our impact
The Tara Ocean Foundation is committed to evaluating the impact of its actions and investments.
Encouraging action
In a world where science is sometimes dismissed as mere opinion, research and scientific data are more strategic than ever. With Tara, we support the acquisition of knowledge about the ocean. To truly protect it, we need to understand it better and reduce the pressure we exert on it – overfishing, multiple forms of pollution, threats from deep-sea mining. Our mission is to let science speak for itself in order to tirelessly convince decision-makers to take action.
Romain Troublé, Chief Executive Officer
High Seas
14 years of campaigning for the Treaty on Biodiversity in the High Seas (BBNJ)
Plastic Pollution
From 2019, commitment to the International Treaty on Plastic Pollution
Cooperation
Co-management of international cooperation projects with Chile, Brazil and Senegal
Ocean Governance
30×30 Target – Antarctic Treaty – Deep-sea mining – Protection of the Central Arctic ocean
Enlightening political decisions
For 10 years, from the role of ocean ecosystems in climate regulation to the implementation of the BBNJ Treaty, the partnership between the FFEM and the Tara Ocean Foundation has illustrated our shared commitment to a future where scientific knowledge informs decisions and strengthens ocean protection.
Stéphanie Bouzigues-Eschmann, Secretary General of the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM)
Engaging a team
Our impact is that of an entire collective, both on land and at sea! At the heart of Tara’s DNA is close collaboration between the Foundation, sailors and scientists, which enables innovative ocean science. There are also artists in residence who observe and reveal, according to their sensibilities, the richness and fragility of the ocean. It is a pioneering model to be cherished.
Étienne Bourgois, Co-founder and President of the Tara Ocean Foundation
+1,5 million
students educated in France and abroad
600 000 km
76 countries visited and more than 300 stopovers
50 institutions
cultural organisations involved in the Alliance of Cultural Organisations for the Ocean launched by the Foundation
1 million
people reached through exhibitions and outreach activities
United the scientific community
Initially, a project carried out by a schooner was not taken seriously by the scientific community, but the success of this new form of non-institutional oceanography, based on a public/private partnership, is now clear for all to see.
Dr Françoise Gaill – excerpts from the Journal du CNRS
15 shipments
700 scientists on board
150 millions
characterised genes
100 000
species of microalgae discovered
5 000
publications based on expedition data – Covers in Science and Nature
To raise awareness
I had never seen the ocean like this before. Mum explained to me how art and science tell us about things we cannot see, and now I want to protect the sea.
Testimonial from a child following a visit to the Grande Exposition at 104 in Paris
47 Taranauts
20 at sea, 27 years on land
6,6 millions
annual budget in 2025
40 laboratories
scientific partners per expedition
2 255 coverage
in the media in 2025
