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Ocean Conservancy promotes healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and opposes practices that threaten ocean life and human life. Through research, education, and science-based advocacy, Ocean Conservancy informs, inspires, and empowers people to speak and act on behalf of the oceans. In all its work, Ocean Conservancy strives to be the world's foremost advocate for the oceans.

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Through science-based advocacy, research, and public education, The Ocean Conservancy informs, inspires, and empowers people to speak and act for the oceans. In all its work, The Ocean Conservancy strives to be the world`s foremost advocate for the oceans.


Fisheries all over the world are being rapidly depleted, coral reefs are being lost at an alarming rate, and pollution has rendered 44 percent of U.S. estuaries unfit for uses such as swimming or fishing. Only 300 North Atlantic right whales are known to exist, and all six species of sea turtles found in U.S. waters are either threatened or endangered.


The task of managing and protecting our oceans lies with us all. The Ocean Conservancy is committed to bringing these issues before the general public, not only because people deserve to know, but because the oceans are a public resource, and can only be as healthy as an informed public demands.


We envision a world of healthy, protected oceans with wild and flourishing ecosystems, free of pollution, and filled with diverse and abundant marine wildlife. For centuries people have exploited the oceans with little thought to the future. Clearly, we can`t afford to neglect them any longer. They provide much of the food we eat and the oxygen we breathe, and they are home to 97 percent of all living matter. Our very existence depends upon healthy oceans.


We at The Ocean Conservancy know that it is not too late. By changing the way people think about the oceans—valuing them for their beauty and diversity as well as their utility—we can turn the tide of failing ocean health. By inspiring people to speak and act for the oceans, The Ocean Conservancy is working to conserve and restore wild, healthy oceans.