Join us in our mission
To invite everyone to discover the joy of the ocean, inspiring them to protect its future.
Through immersive experiences and engaging storytelling across our global network of aquariums, and guided by our three conservation pillars: Rescue, Restore, Protect, we commit to safeguarding the ocean in collaboration with our partners, such as the SEA LIFE Trust.
Our charity, SEA LIFE Trust
Together, we do amazing conservation work. Find out more and see how you can make a difference.
Beluga Whale Santuary, a world-first!
From Shanghai to Iceland, this is a ground-breaking project providing formerly captive beluga whales a safe and more natural home.
Rescue, Restore, Protect
Our conservation programme consists of a system of care and best-practise animal husbandry that draws on decades of collective experience from our marine biologists.
Worldwide Beach Cleans
Team up with our passionate staff and join one of our beach cleans, helping to raise awareness about plastic pollution, keeping our beaches clean and...did we mention they´re fun too?
Aquarium in the classroom
Among other things, we have given an aquarium to a school for two weeks several times in the last few years, in order to introduce the children to the underwater world and its inhabitants. A large number of kindergartens and schools from the surrounding area applied. In order to be allowed to participate in this exciting project, they applied with painted pictures of the underwater world, rapped crab songs, self-made books or even short film sequences.
Beach Cleaning
We inform our guests during their visit about the problem of the increasing pollution of the waters. However, we do not only talk, but also follow up with action. Every year, SEA LIFE Timmendorfer Strand organizes extensive beach clean-up campaigns with local schools. Here in particular the plastic garbage in in the focus, which needs centuries in order to be decomposed by salt water, sun and waves. It will never disappear completely from nature, but decompose into smaller and smaller pieces, the so-called microplating, which accumulates toxins in the sea and ends up back on people's plates with the food chain. You would like to learn more about our projects or become part of them - feel free to contact us!
Community action - No trash on the beach
Informing, sensitizing and educating in dealing with nature at the coast is the goal of the campaign. SEA LIFE Timmendorfer Strand, the municipality of Timmendorfer Strand, the shipping company Belis and Böttcher Schifffahrt have a new goal: "No garbage on the beach"! Following this motto we sat down together and developed the new awareness campaign. It takes about 20 years for a plastic bag to decompose in the sea, 200 years for a beverage can and even 450 years for a plastic bottle. The plastic never disappears completely, but decomposes slowly and remains in tiny pieces forever as microplastic. Numerous posters in Timmendorfer Strand, which were provided in the context of the new project and are on display directly at the beaches or in schools and inform about it now.
German Ocean Foundation
The German Ocean Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting the oceans. It raises awareness of the threats facing the world's oceans and highlights possible courses of action. To this end, it brings together initiatives and projects from all areas of the maritime economy, politics, research and society to form a powerful voice for our oceans.
Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU)
NABU has been committed to species and nature conservation in Germany for over 100 years. Together with SEA LIFE, projects such as the European pond turtle conservation project have been implemented to protect the European pond turtle, a species native to Germany. This species is on the Red List of Threatened Species. NABU and SEA LIFE are working together to reintroduce the species – with success.
