Sentences with phrase «ocean conservation organization»

Ocean Champions Recognized as a Certified Green Business Ocean conservation organization is the second nonprofit business in Capitola to become green certified Capitola, CA — April 22, 2011 — Ocean Champions, which works to build political power for the oceans by helping to elect pro-ocean...

They are the largest global, non-profit ocean conservation organization and achieve their mission by leveraging advocacy, science, law, media and public pressures to create well - targeted policy campaigns.

«This will close the Arctic to all commercial fishing,» says Jim Ayers, vice president for Pacific and Arctic affairs at ocean conservation organization Oceana, based in Juneau, who testified before the vote.

VANCOUVER — The man who has led the Vancouver Aquarium for the last 25 years and helped create its ocean conservation organization, Ocean Wise, has announced his retirement.

It works with ocean conservation organizations such as Ocean Wise, SeaChoice and others and carries products with the programs» stamps of approval.

«Coastal and ocean conservation organizations, like the Surfrider Foundation, are facing the challenge of balancing responsible renewable ocean energy development with protection of our special ecological and recreational resources along the coast,» said Surfrider Foundation Environmental Director Dr. Chad Nelsen.

We actively seek to work with all of these groups, as well as traditional ocean conservation organizations, to advance progressive solutions to safeguard our oceans.

From the protection of dolphins, whales, sharks, and even sea turtles.Pelagic Love understands passion by using a portion of its profits to help ocean conservation organizations.

Not exact matches

Shell has met neither of those conditions,» says Michael LeVine, of the ocean - conservation organization Oceana in Juneau, Alaska.

«Both organizations have to cooperate to realize the conservation of Pacific Ocean tuna,» said Hisashi Endo, an official with Japan's Fisheries Agency, at the briefing.

Discovery Channel and Shark Savers, a shark conservation non-profit organization, are teaming up for the 25th Anniversary of the highly popular Shark Week, the network's annual weeklong programming event devoted entirely to the ocean's apex predators.

The fact that it is now showing up in Hawai`i in double - digit numbers around breeding season is huge news and potentially a major development in the efforts to protect this species from extinction,» said Dr. George Wallace, Vice President for Oceans and Islands at American Bird Conservancy, the nation's leading bird conservation organization.

But he was largely credited by many such organizations for helping push some decisions Mr. Bush made recently on ocean conservation.

These efforts are part of 100 - 1000 partnership, with the goal of building 100 new miles of oyster reefs and 1000 miles of replanted marshlands along the Gulf in Alabama to make Alabama's coastal areas more resilient to impacts from hurricanes, oil spills and climate change.100 - 1000 is a project that was formed in 2010 and grew out of the partnership of four conservation organizations including: Alabama Coastal Foundation, Mobile Baykeeper, the Nature Conservancy and the Ocean Foundation.

Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation.

Ocean Champions is the first national organization to focus solely on developing a broad, bipartisan base of supporters for ocean conservation in the U.S. Congress and in key stOcean Champions is the first national organization to focus solely on developing a broad, bipartisan base of supporters for ocean conservation in the U.S. Congress and in key stocean conservation in the U.S. Congress and in key states.

The 28 June letter was signed by leaders of the following organizations: AAAS; American Chemical Society; American Geophysical Union; American Institute of Biological Sciences; American Meteorological Society; American Public Health Association; American Society of Agronomy; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; American Society of Naturalists; American Society of Plant Biologists; American Statistical Association; Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography; Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation; Association of Ecosystem Research Centers; BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium; Botanical Society of America; Consortium for Ocean Leadership; Crop Science Society of America; Ecological Society of America; Entomological Society of America; Geological Society of America; National Association of Marine Laboratories; Natural Science Collections Alliance; Organization of Biological Field Stations; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Society for Mathematical Biology; Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; Society of Nematologists; Society of Systematic Biologists; Soil Science Society of America; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

That is why working at Ocean Champions interests me — it is an organization that realizes this and works within the politics of ocean conservation to advance ocean policy, and protect the resource we love and depend on, our oOcean Champions interests me — it is an organization that realizes this and works within the politics of ocean conservation to advance ocean policy, and protect the resource we love and depend on, our oocean conservation to advance ocean policy, and protect the resource we love and depend on, our oocean policy, and protect the resource we love and depend on, our oceanocean.

The honour instead goes to Oceana, which describes itself as «the largest international organization focused solely on ocean conservation.»

After college, she worked around the world in the sports industry, managing projects for organizations including the PGA TOUR, Ryder Cup, NFL and the World Surf League before shifting her career into ocean conservation with a focus on marine plastic pollution.

Nine leading non-profit conservation organizations — 5 Gyres Institute, Algalita, Californians Against Waste, Clean Production Action, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Responsible Purchasing Network, The Story of Stuff Project, Surfrider Foundation, and UPSTREAM Policy — joined together to produce the Plastics BAN (Better Alternatives Now) List, a series of reports that identify the world's most dangerous plastics in order to better protect our oceans and environment.

BlooSee will work closely with Surfrider Foundation on new tools and technology specifically for ocean conservation that will be available to all the organizations that currently use BlooSee.

Our work has helped spark broad collaboration among national and regional conservation groups and Alaska Native organizations aimed at protecting the Arctic Ocean from risky drilling.

«With the global trade in shark fins pushing sharks toward extinction, it will take strong actions such as this to prevent us from making irreversible changes to our ocean ecosystems,» said Whit Sheard, senior advisor for Oceana, a maritime conservation organization.

Now, through a technology partnership with Oceana, an international organization devoted to ocean conservation, and Skytruth, a non-profit that uses remote sensing and digital mapping to expose environmental impacts, Google is using it's mapping technology to keep tabs on global fishing activity and let the public watch what ships are doing.

Sea Shepherd, the international conservation organization and focus of Animal Planet's Whale Wars, has managed to stop the Japanese whaling operation in the Antarctic Ocean.

In terms of field work, consider volunteering for local wildlife trusts, marine conservation organizations, local charities, ocean clean - up organisations and sanctuaries and rescue centres (this includes paid for experiences across the world).