Blue Marine Foundation

It has been involved in establishing marine reserves in Lyme Bay, Turneffe Atoll and 4 million square kilometres of protection in the UK Overseas Territories.

Chris Gorell Barnes, the executive producer of the documentary film The End of the Line, co-founded the Blue Marine Foundation with Charles Clover (the author of the book The End of the Line) and filmmaker George Duffield, as a legacy project of the film.

[6][7][8] Henry Bellingham, a UK junior Foreign Office minister, described the initiative as a "great example" of government and the private sector working together and said the reserve would "double the global coverage of the world's oceans benefiting from full protection".

[11][12][13] The charity also played a central role in the creation of a marine reserve around the Turneffe Atoll, which is part of the Belize Barrier Reef.

The Programme is highly ecologically representative with protected areas in the Pacific, Atlantic, Southern and Indian oceans and the Caribbean.