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Defending Our Oceans Editor's Pick

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

Greenpeace campaign committed to defending the health of the world's oceans and the plants, animals and people that depend upon them

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Bay Institute of San Francisco, The

http://www.bay.org/

protects and restores the ecosystems of San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and the rivers, streams, and watersheds tributary to the Estuary

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Best Practice for Marine Protected Networks

http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/biome/marine/mpanetworks/networks.html

seeks to capture emerging international best practice on the full range of considerations needed to build such marine protected networks as an important component of ocean conservation

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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

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Communities and Coasts Programme

http://www.fspi.org.fj/program/coastal.htm

8 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

a resource supporting community based coastal resource management in the South Pacific

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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

http://floridakeys.noaa.gov/

information about the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

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Global Seagrass Monitoring Network

http://www.seagrassnet.org/

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

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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/

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

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IUCN Global Marine Programme

http://www.iucn.org/themes/marine/

seeks to preserve and rehabilitate marine ecosystems; working in the areas of integrated coastal and marine management, fisheries, marine protected areas, larger marine ecosystems, as well as coral reef rehabilitation, and the effects of coral bleaching and climate change

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Locally Managed Marine Management Network

http://www.lmmanetwork.org/

a portal for information on community-based marine conservation and its practitioners

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National Marine Sanctuaries

http://www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov/

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

information about our nation's marine sanctuaries -- their history and current management and their scientific and educational programs

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National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

http://www.nmsfocean.org/

dedicated to creating conservation-based education and outreach programs designed to preserve, protect and promote the nation's marine sanctuaries

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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

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OceansLive

http://www.oceanslive.org/portal/

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

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Society For Ocean Sciences, The

http://www.societyoceansciences.org/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

dedicated to promoting preservation and an appreciation of marine environments through education, research and conservation

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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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