After leaving her apartment to live aboard a sailboat, Leslie Bissey set out to meet the stakeholders committed to a sustainable Mediterranean, aiming to highlight their initiatives and make them accessible to a wider audience.
Over the years, the WeOcean association has developed three areas of action: scientific research, education, and audiovisual production. Documentary films, portraits of stakeholders, awareness campaigns for boaters, and projects on plankton help convey the knowledge gained in the field.
Nevertheless, the ocean retains a remarkable capacity for resilience. "Nature can regenerate itself in an incredible and quite rapid way if we just leave it alone. But we need to give it that chance." This realization has also led her to advocate for the richness of the Mediterranean. "We have incredible life to preserve here. We don't need to go to the other side of the world; it's right in front of us." Leslie Bissey marvels.
The association primarily focuses on raising awareness rather than imposing constraints, inviting the public to discover marine biodiversity to better protect it. "Our main vector is wonder. So we will try to reach people so that they themselves want to get involved."
"We do notice that people want to get involved once they are emotionally touched. The more of us who raise awareness and act daily, the more we can preserve the biodiversity right in front of us," concludes Leslie Bissey.
