These indigenous women-doing-it-for-themselves are from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, now empowered with the training, skills, equipment, and resources they need to help manage marine protected areas and their own coral reefs. There are over 40 Sea Women at work in the ‘Coral Triangle’ between the Great Barrier Reef and the island archipelagos of Melanesia and South East Asia. The Sea Women initiative is run by the Coral Sea Foundation, and was recently named one of UNEP’s 2021 Champions of the Earth – watch them in action.