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Defending Our Oceans Editor's Pick popular
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans
Greenpeace campaign committed to defending the health of the world's oceans and the plants, animals and people that depend upon them
Healthy Oceans new
features a letter to Canadian Parliament members regarding the protection of the oceans
Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition
a global coalition working to ensure that the Antarctic continent, its surrounding islands and the great Southern Ocean survive as the world's last unspoiled wilderness
Bay Institute of San Francisco, The
protects and restores the ecosystems of San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and the rivers, streams, and watersheds tributary to the Estuary
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
http://www.ccamlr.org/pu/e/gen-intro.htm
has a mandate to conserve and manage mainly high-seas areas; concerned not only with fisheries regulation, it also strives to implement a holistic, or 'ecosystem approach' to the management of marine living resources in the Southern Ocean
Communities and Coasts Programme
http://www.fspi.org.fj/program/coastal.htm
a resource supporting community based coastal resource management in the South Pacific
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
information about the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Global Seagrass Monitoring Network
a global monitoring program to investigate and document both the status of seagrass resources world wide and the threats to this important and imperiled marine ecosystem
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
the principal adviser to the Commonwealth Government on the care and development of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, the largest natural feature on earth stretching more than 2,300km along the northeast coast of Australia
Locally Managed Marine Management Network
a portal for information on community-based marine conservation and its practitioners
Map of proposed global network of marine reserves
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/documents-reports/roadmap
part of Greenpeace's campaign to defend oceans
Marine Reserves
http://www.marinereserves.org.uk/
a campaign that aims to ensure that the UK complies with the legislation to establish by 2015 an ecologically coherent network of marine reserves
MARINET
campaigns to protect the marine environment around the coast of the UK
National Marine Sanctuaries
http://www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov/
information about our nation's marine sanctuaries -- their
history and current management and their scientific and educational
programs
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation
dedicated to creating conservation-based education and outreach programs designed to preserve, protect and promote the nation's marine sanctuaries
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve
http://www.hawaiireef.noaa.gov/
large marine protected area including submerged lands and marine waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
OceansLive updated
a marine science portal from NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program seeking to integrate live video camera feeds with data as diverse as observations collected by citizen-scientists, satellite records, and measurements collected by monitoring stations within sanctuaries
Society For Ocean Sciences, The
http://www.societyoceansciences.org/
dedicated to promoting preservation and an appreciation of marine environments through education, research and conservation
Wildcoast
http://www.wildcoast.net/site/
protects and preserves coastal ecosystems and wildlife in the California and Latin America by building grassroots support, conducting media campaigns and establishing protected areas
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