To find tangible solutions for ocean protection, we should listen to the people most affected by current ocean problems: people in the tropics. So say 25 authors of a commentary published in the journal Ocean Sustainability and initiated by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. Estradivari, an Indonesian marine scientist at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, Germany, also contributed to the publication.