The problems facing the world’s oceans can be solved. Oceana was created to identify practical solutions and make them happen.
There was a need to fill. In 1999, a group of U.S. foundations commissioned a study and discovered that less than ˝ of one percent of all resources spent by environmental nonprofit groups in the United States went to ocean advocacy – an appalling statistic. No organization was working exclusively to fight ocean threats on a global scale. To fill the gap, our founders created Oceana: an international organization focused solely on oceans, dedicated to achieving measurable change by conducting specific, fact-based campaigns with fixed deadlines and articulated goals.
To most effectively protect the world’s oceans, Oceana is:
MARINE-FOCUSED: Oceana is 100 percent dedicated to fighting on behalf of oceans.
GLOBAL: We now have campaign offices in Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium; Santiago, Chile; Juneau, Alaska; Los Angeles, California; and Washington, DC.
CAMPAIGN-DRIVEN: We channel our resources in a limited number of strategic, directed campaigns to achieve measurable outcomes that will help return our oceans to former levels of abundance. Some of our campaigns are regional; others are international. They are led by teams of talented scientists, economists, lawyers, and advocates focused on achieving tangible results for the oceans.
FACT-BASED: We believe in the importance of science in identifying problems and solutions.
