Ocean Conservation Namibia (OCN) is a non-profit organization founded by Naude and Katja Dreyer in January 2020 to create global awareness of ocean and plastic pollution and its impact on animals, specifically seals.
The OCN team consists of several dedicated activists and volunteers who humanely capture seals encumbered by ocean waste and rescue them from near certain death.
Areas of focus of OCN include: education of the world's ocean plastic crisis,[2][3] the Namibian baby seal harvest (Namibia is one of the last places where seals are hunted for commercial purposes),[4][5] overfishing,[6] marine phosphate mining,[7] and deep sea mining.
When activists have visited villages to educate them on the drilling and other foreign company disruptions to their ecosystem the Namibian police have arrested them and held them for nine hours without charge to intimidate and halt the education process.
[9] The government of Namibia has also attempted to reduce the fur seal population due to it competing with the fishing industry.