Owen is a very passionate young Wildlife Warrior. He might only be eight years old but he sure packs huge passion and dedication into that little human. He loves everything to do with wildlife and he wants to do all he can to help protect them. He says "Wildlife can't protect themselves so we need to protect them".

For Owen, everything is an adventure, so he decided he wanted to start 'Owen's Wildlife Adventures' to try and share his passion and hopefully inspire others to follow suit and help him make a difference. While Owen was happy to spread the message he soon realised he wanted to have even more impact and decided to start his very own kid's environmental group. This was the start of the Cap Coast Eco Warriors, a kids environmental group aiming to give kids a voice and give them the opportunity to learn all about the various different aspects of conservation and what they can do to make a difference.

Owen believes everyone can make a difference no matter how small and he is showing us all that there are no limits and that even the littlest ones amongst us can help.

Owen collects a lot of rubbish and also records the information in the AMDI Database so that he can contribute to stopping this whole issue at the source. Owen is very proud to be part of the Tangaroa Blue and ReefClean crew. He wants his kids to be able to snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef and see fish, sharks and turtles and not just plastic floating around. So on all trips away, every walk on the beach, Owen picks up rubbish. Seeing all the marine debris on a recent Cape York trip made him realise even more just how urgently we need to stop polluting this planet.

In his spare time, he loves nothing more than saving sea turtles.

Poppy has had a passion for the ocean from a young age and, inspired by the work of Tangaroa Blue and the Australia Zoo Wildlife Warrior program, she started her own monthly beach clean-up in November 2017. Calling the group Visionary Ocean Warriors, a spin-off from the Australia Zoo Wildlife Warrior program, Poppy’s focus was removing marine debris and in turn protecting endangered marine life.

Since the group's inception in late 2017 Poppy has shown her commitment to the cause by monitoring the chosen site at Golden Beach on the Sunshine Coast, each month, engaging volunteers, and collating the debris into the Australian Marine Debris Initiative. To date, she has entered 11,000 pieces of debris, totaling 183 kilos, and engaging 288 volunteers, with the help and commitment of friends and participants of the beach clean-ups.

Poppy spreads the message for refusing single-use plastic and protecting the oceans with fundraising efforts, producing hand-printed 'Plastic Free Sea’ t-shirts and handmade bracelets, using the monies from the sales to fundraise for Tangaroa Blue.

From a young age, Poppy always loved swimming, and spent many years competitively swimming in her region, and spending time at the beach. Poppy aspires to become a marine biologist, stating “I am interested in the ocean because it hasn’t been totally discovered, it’s pretty cool with all the creatures living in it, especially sharks.”