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Ocean Alliance strives to increase public awareness of the importance of whale and ocean health through research and public education. We work with our scientific partners to collect a broad spectrum of data on whales and ocean life. Ocean Alliance uses this data to advise educators, policy makers, and the general public on wise stewardship of the oceans to mitigate pollution, prevent the collapse of marine mammal populations, and promote ocean and human health. Ocean Alliance, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Organization, and was founded in 1971.

From the website: "Our goal is clean and healthy Virginia Beach waterways and our objectives are: • To identify and reduce sources of contamination in our waterways. That includes reducing nutrients, sediments, and chemicals that run off of our lawns, parking lots, roadways, farmland, and out of our septic systems. • To educate and engage the community and partner organizations in restoring and protecting our waterways and natural areas. • To restore lost habitats such as oyster reefs, salt marshes, native plants, forests, and other buffers that help to filter polluted runoff and protect our waterways and their marine life."

Our mission is to celebrate the Petaluma Watershed through education and stewardship; because every great River needs a true Friend. Our Goals: Access, Education, and Conservation -To pursue outreach and educational activities that will nurture enthusiasm and commitment in the watershed for long term sustainable stewardship. -To monitor conditions and engage in activities that will reduce or prevent pollution and lessen other harmful impacts on the River and its wetlands. -To foster a River Heritage Center as a community resource. A place to archive information, host events, administer programs, and coordinate river related activities. -To promote access to the Petaluma River and Marsh for all community members to experience the beauty of this resource for themselves

Forest Trends' mission is to conserve forests and other ecosystems through the creation and wide adoption of a broad range of environmental finance, markets, and other payment and incentive mechanisms. Forest Trends does so by: 1) Providing transparent information on ecosystem values, finance, and markets through knowledge acquisition, analysis, and dissemination; 2) convening diverse coalitions, partners and communities of practice to promote environmental values and advance development of new markets and payment mechanisms; and 3) demonstrating successful tools, standards, and models of innovative finance for conservation.

The BlueLab Preservation Society is an interdisciplinary, impact-driven, eco-philanthropic 501c3 seeking to reconcile us with the water world. We mobilize leading minds and operate worldwide to find executable third-millennium solutions to second-millennium blunders, including overfishing, plastic pollution, irresponsible tourism, aqua-floral disbalance and... the shortage of ocean-based art.

Heal the Ocean focuses on wastewater infrastructure – sewers and septic systems – as well as ocean dumping practices that have contributed to ocean pollution. They are focused on Santa Barbara County, but their methods are now serving as a model for other coastal communities across the country.