Ocean Conservancy

Ocean Conservancy, founded in 1972, is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and opposing practices that threaten ocean and human life in the United States. Through research, education and science-based advocacy, the organization informs, inspires and empowers people to speak and act on behalf of the oceans. Its priorities include restoring sustainable American fisheries, protecting wildlife from human impacts, conserving special ocean places and reforming government for better ocean stewardship. With corporate partners such as Oracle and the Bank of America, Ocean Conservancy has more than 170,000 members and over 300,000 volunteers, and publishes the Blue Planet Quarterly.