Oceana was established by a group of leading foundations – The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Oak Foundation, Marisla Foundation (formerly Homeland Foundation), Sandler Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. After a 1999 study they commissioned discovered that less than 0.5 percent of all resources spent by environmental nonprofit groups in the United States went to ocean advocacy.
No organization was working exclusively to protect and restore the oceans on a global scale. The opportunity to step into this space and make real tangible progress inspired the founders to create and establish the organization.
The Ocean Law Project – also initiated by The Pew Charitable Trusts – was absorbed into Oceana in 2001 as Oceana’s legal arm. In 2002, Oceana merged with American Oceans Campaign, founded by actor and environmentalist Ted Danson, to more effectively address our common mission of protecting and restoring the world’s oceans.
Since its founding, Oceana has won more than 225 victories and protected nearly 4 million square miles of ocean. Find out more about how Oceana is helping to save the oceans victory by victory.
We invite our readers and travelers to join in the support for the world’s Oceans and note you will be directed to the OCEANA’s own fundraising page to directly donate to the causes of Ocean Protection around the World.
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