ACT NOW: SAVE THE OCTOPUS. END THE TRAP.
Help us reach 50,000 traps removed by World Octopus Day.
Octopuses are intelligent, sentient animals that feel pain and distress. Yet thousands are being taken during the most vulnerable stages of their lives.
Juvenile octopuses are killed before they have the chance to grow and reproduce. Females sheltering inside traps can be taken along with the thousands of eggs they are guarding, ending the next generation before it has the chance to hatch.
Right now, thousands of plastic octopus traps remain hidden beneath the waters of northern Greece – one of the Mediterranean’s most important octopus habitats.
To an octopus, each trap looks like a safe place to shelter. But fishermen return, haul up the lines and take every octopus they find inside. The empty traps are then lowered back onto the seabed, ready to lure in another octopus… and then another.
The same trap can repeat this deadly cycle again and again.
These traps don’t only kill octopuses. Left beneath the water year after year, the plastic deteriorates and contaminates the sea, threatening the wider marine ecosystem.
WE’RE ALMOST AT 50,000 TRAPS. HELP US GET THERE.
Over the past three years, supporters like you have helped Sea Shepherd work alongside the Greek authorities to remove more than 46,000 traps from Mediterranean waters and release thousands of octopuses back into the sea. This season alone, our crew has already removed more than 4,000 of those traps, but thousands still remain hidden beneath the surface.
Now, we need your help to reach 50,000 traps removed by World Octopus Day
Your donation helps keep our crew at sea, searching for hidden lines, hauling traps from the seabed, checking every one for life and releasing the octopuses found inside.
One trap removed. One deadly cycle ended. One more octopus given the chance to survive.
But with thousands of traps taking octopuses year after year, removing them will not be enough on its own.
HELP US PROTECT THE OCTOPUS POPULATION BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.
Octopus populations in these waters are declining. When thousands of juveniles are killed before they can reproduce and females and their eggs are taken before the next generation can hatch, the impact extends far beyond the individual octopuses caught inside each trap.
It puts the future of the entire population at risk.
That’s why our crew is not only removing traps. We are gathering the evidence needed to expose the full scale of the damage and fight for lasting protection.
By building the scientific case, we can show how this relentless fishing is affecting the octopus population and push authorities for stronger protections.
Your donation makes both parts of this mission possible: saving octopuses today and fighting to protect their population for generations to come.
Act now. Help us reach 50,000 traps removed, save octopuses and build the case for lasting change.