Conservation groups
Oceans
www.savethehighseas.org
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition brings together around 30 conservation groups worldwide in an attempt to halt trawling and damage to seamounts, cold water corals and other deep sea
ecosystems.
www.fish4ever.org
Fish 4 Ever is a global email campaign calling for the urgent implementation of sustainable fisheries and the creation of a network of marine parks to safeguard the future of the world’s oceans.
www.frontier.ac.uk
Join a Frontier marine conservation expedition to the Pacific Islands, Africa or Central America and gain internationally recognised vocational conservation and expedition qualifications.
www.greenpeace.org
Greenpeace runs international campaigns on a variety of marine issues including pollution, whale and dolphin conservation, and deep sea trawling.
www.oceana.org
Oceana works in North America, South America and Europe on issues including oil pollution, destructive trawling and seafood contamination.
www.oceanconservancy.org
The Ocean Conservancy coordinates international coastal clean-ups (covering 90 countries) and campaigns on a range of marine issues.
www.oceanfutures.org
Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society focuses on four main areas: clean water, coastal marine habitats, marine mammals and sustainable fisheries.
www.panda.org
WWF (formerly World Wildlife Fund) runs a Global Marine programme that sponsors research and publications as well as campaigning on a wide range of marine conservation issues.
Coral reefs
www.coralreefalliance.org
Coral Reef Alliance works with divers, snorkellers, local communities and governments to protect and manage coral reefs and promote marine parks. It produces an excellent and comprehensive set of guidelines on good environmental practice for diving, snorkelling, and managing an ‘underwater clean-up’.
www.reefcheck.org
ReefCheck, founded in 1996, is dedicated to saving coral reefs globally and temperate reefs in California. It works in over 80 countries with volunteers, local communities, governments and businesses to monitor, restore and maintain coral reef health.
www.reef.org
The Reef Environmental Education Foundation is a fish monitoring programme for divers, in which information is fed into a publicly-accessible database.
www.reefkeeper.org
ReefGuardian International focuses on reefs and marine life.
Sharks and whales
www.csiwhalesalive.org
The Cetacean Society International campaigns on whale conservation.
www.ecocean.org
Ecocean campaigns for increased protection for Whalesharks in Western Australia’s Ningaloo Marine Park.
www.cethus.org
Fundaci?Cethus is an Argentinian organisation dedicated to researching, conserving and providing public education about the dolphins and whales of the south-western Atlantic.
www.sharktrust.org
The Shark Trust works to promote the study, management and conservation of sharks, skates and rays in the UK and internationally.
www.wdcs.org
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society is one of the leading international voices for the protection of whales, dolphins and their environment.
www.whalesharkproject.org
The Whale Shark Project is a joint campaign by the Shark Trust and PADI Project AWARE to create a Whaleshark photo-identification database.
Regional organizations
www.asoc.org
The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition brings together NGOs from more than 430 countries to fight unsustainable fisheries and other threats to the Antarctic and surrounding seas.
www.amcs.org.au
The Australian Marine Conservation Society works on a range of regional marine issues, including marine parks, fisheries, threatened species and land-based pollution.
www.deepwave.org
Deep Wave is a German ecology group working on a range of marine issues.
www.ecologyaction.ca
Ecology Action campaigns on sustainable fisheries, oil and gas exploration, habitat protection and other marine issues affecting Nova Scotia, Canada.
www.livingoceans.org
Living Oceans campaigns on fisheries, aquaculture and marine protected areas in British Columbia, Canada.
www.mcsuk.org
The Marine Conservation Society is a UK-based charity dedicated to protecting the marine environment and its wildlife. MCS organises an annual beach clean up and publishes the Good Beach Guide and the Good Fish Guide.
www.marviva.org
MarViva is a Spanish-based organization that works with local communities and governments to protect marine and coastal resources across the eastern tropical Pacific and Caribbean.
www.reef-doctor.org
Reef Doctor is a UK-based programme helping to restore coral reefs in Madagascar.
www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has a national marine sanctuaries programme.
www.gbrmpa.gov.au
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has a huge amount of information about the world’s largest marine protected area.
Consumer issues
www.bite-back.com
Bite-back has successfully campaigned to persuade supermarkets and restaurants in the UK to stop selling shark products. It has since also campaigned on other non-sustainable fisheries, including those for marlin, swordfish, monkfish and Orange Roughy.
www.fishonline.org
The UK-based Marine Conservation Society has an on-line guide to help consumers choose fish from sustainable sources. (Internet version of their Good Fish Guide.)
www.msc.org
The Marine Stewardship Council is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes responsible fishing practices through the MSC sustainably-fished labelling scheme.
www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
The Monterey Bay Aquarium publishes seafoood guides.
www.oceansalive.org/eat.cfm
US-based Oceans Alive publishes another seafood selector guide.
www.seafoodchoices.com
The US-based Seafood Choices Alliance helps fishermen, chefs and restaurant-goers make sound seafood choices.
Conservation expeditions
www.amca-international.org
Access to Marine Conservation for All helps disabled divers participate in conservation expeditions.
www.coralcay.org
Coral Cay Conservation manages reef and rainforest conservation projects in Fiji, Honduras and the Philippines.
www.earthwatch.org
Earthwatch, established in 1973, runs a wide variety of volunteer expeditions, including marine surveys for snorkellers and divers in the Bahamas, Jamaica and Belize.
www.greenforce.org
Greenforce offers marine expeditions, including programmes in Fiji, the Bahamas and Borneo.
www.opwall.com
Operation Wallacea began with marine surveys in Indonesia but now encompasses diving expeditions to South Africa, Honduras, the Red Sea and Cuba.
www.raleighinternational.org
Raleigh International is a youth development charity that works on environment and community projects worldwide, including helping to build artificial reefs in Costa Rica.
www.i-to-i.com
i-to-i offers a wide-ranging programme of travel and work experiences, including fish conservation in Thailand, turtle conservation in Sri Lanka, Guatemala and Kenya, and shark research in South Africa.
Carbon offset schemes
www.carbonneutral.com
Formerly known as Future Forests, the CarbonNeutral Company also allows you to calculate your emissions from flights, domestic travel or from your home, and to offset them in various ways.
www.climatecare.org
On the Climate Care website you can calculate the carbon cost of flights or the day-to-day emissions from your car and home. You can then offset your carbon usage by donating to reforestation or projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at source.
www.savethehighseas.org
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition brings together around 30 conservation groups worldwide in an attempt to halt trawling and damage to seamounts, cold water corals and other deep sea
ecosystems.
www.fish4ever.org
Fish 4 Ever is a global email campaign calling for the urgent implementation of sustainable fisheries and the creation of a network of marine parks to safeguard the future of the world’s oceans.
www.frontier.ac.uk
Join a Frontier marine conservation expedition to the Pacific Islands, Africa or Central America and gain internationally recognised vocational conservation and expedition qualifications.
www.greenpeace.org
Greenpeace runs international campaigns on a variety of marine issues including pollution, whale and dolphin conservation, and deep sea trawling.
www.oceana.org
Oceana works in North America, South America and Europe on issues including oil pollution, destructive trawling and seafood contamination.
www.oceanconservancy.org
The Ocean Conservancy coordinates international coastal clean-ups (covering 90 countries) and campaigns on a range of marine issues.
www.oceanfutures.org
Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society focuses on four main areas: clean water, coastal marine habitats, marine mammals and sustainable fisheries.
www.panda.org
WWF (formerly World Wildlife Fund) runs a Global Marine programme that sponsors research and publications as well as campaigning on a wide range of marine conservation issues.
Coral reefs
www.coralreefalliance.org
Coral Reef Alliance works with divers, snorkellers, local communities and governments to protect and manage coral reefs and promote marine parks. It produces an excellent and comprehensive set of guidelines on good environmental practice for diving, snorkelling, and managing an ‘underwater clean-up’.
www.reefcheck.org
ReefCheck, founded in 1996, is dedicated to saving coral reefs globally and temperate reefs in California. It works in over 80 countries with volunteers, local communities, governments and businesses to monitor, restore and maintain coral reef health.
www.reef.org
The Reef Environmental Education Foundation is a fish monitoring programme for divers, in which information is fed into a publicly-accessible database.
www.reefkeeper.org
ReefGuardian International focuses on reefs and marine life.
Sharks and whales
www.csiwhalesalive.org
The Cetacean Society International campaigns on whale conservation.
www.ecocean.org
Ecocean campaigns for increased protection for Whalesharks in Western Australia’s Ningaloo Marine Park.
www.cethus.org
Fundaci?Cethus is an Argentinian organisation dedicated to researching, conserving and providing public education about the dolphins and whales of the south-western Atlantic.
www.sharktrust.org
The Shark Trust works to promote the study, management and conservation of sharks, skates and rays in the UK and internationally.
www.wdcs.org
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society is one of the leading international voices for the protection of whales, dolphins and their environment.
www.whalesharkproject.org
The Whale Shark Project is a joint campaign by the Shark Trust and PADI Project AWARE to create a Whaleshark photo-identification database.
Regional organizations
www.asoc.org
The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition brings together NGOs from more than 430 countries to fight unsustainable fisheries and other threats to the Antarctic and surrounding seas.
www.amcs.org.au
The Australian Marine Conservation Society works on a range of regional marine issues, including marine parks, fisheries, threatened species and land-based pollution.
www.deepwave.org
Deep Wave is a German ecology group working on a range of marine issues.
www.ecologyaction.ca
Ecology Action campaigns on sustainable fisheries, oil and gas exploration, habitat protection and other marine issues affecting Nova Scotia, Canada.
www.livingoceans.org
Living Oceans campaigns on fisheries, aquaculture and marine protected areas in British Columbia, Canada.
www.mcsuk.org
The Marine Conservation Society is a UK-based charity dedicated to protecting the marine environment and its wildlife. MCS organises an annual beach clean up and publishes the Good Beach Guide and the Good Fish Guide.
www.marviva.org
MarViva is a Spanish-based organization that works with local communities and governments to protect marine and coastal resources across the eastern tropical Pacific and Caribbean.
www.reef-doctor.org
Reef Doctor is a UK-based programme helping to restore coral reefs in Madagascar.
www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has a national marine sanctuaries programme.
www.gbrmpa.gov.au
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has a huge amount of information about the world’s largest marine protected area.
Consumer issues
www.bite-back.com
Bite-back has successfully campaigned to persuade supermarkets and restaurants in the UK to stop selling shark products. It has since also campaigned on other non-sustainable fisheries, including those for marlin, swordfish, monkfish and Orange Roughy.
www.fishonline.org
The UK-based Marine Conservation Society has an on-line guide to help consumers choose fish from sustainable sources. (Internet version of their Good Fish Guide.)
www.msc.org
The Marine Stewardship Council is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes responsible fishing practices through the MSC sustainably-fished labelling scheme.
www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
The Monterey Bay Aquarium publishes seafoood guides.
www.oceansalive.org/eat.cfm
US-based Oceans Alive publishes another seafood selector guide.
www.seafoodchoices.com
The US-based Seafood Choices Alliance helps fishermen, chefs and restaurant-goers make sound seafood choices.
Conservation expeditions
www.amca-international.org
Access to Marine Conservation for All helps disabled divers participate in conservation expeditions.
www.coralcay.org
Coral Cay Conservation manages reef and rainforest conservation projects in Fiji, Honduras and the Philippines.
www.earthwatch.org
Earthwatch, established in 1973, runs a wide variety of volunteer expeditions, including marine surveys for snorkellers and divers in the Bahamas, Jamaica and Belize.
www.greenforce.org
Greenforce offers marine expeditions, including programmes in Fiji, the Bahamas and Borneo.
www.opwall.com
Operation Wallacea began with marine surveys in Indonesia but now encompasses diving expeditions to South Africa, Honduras, the Red Sea and Cuba.
www.raleighinternational.org
Raleigh International is a youth development charity that works on environment and community projects worldwide, including helping to build artificial reefs in Costa Rica.
www.i-to-i.com
i-to-i offers a wide-ranging programme of travel and work experiences, including fish conservation in Thailand, turtle conservation in Sri Lanka, Guatemala and Kenya, and shark research in South Africa.
Carbon offset schemes
www.carbonneutral.com
Formerly known as Future Forests, the CarbonNeutral Company also allows you to calculate your emissions from flights, domestic travel or from your home, and to offset them in various ways.
www.climatecare.org
On the Climate Care website you can calculate the carbon cost of flights or the day-to-day emissions from your car and home. You can then offset your carbon usage by donating to reforestation or projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at source.
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