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NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 1.2 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
One of NRDC’s top priorities is to revive the world’s oceans. Ninety percent of the large fish like tuna and swordfish are already gone. Every year, high-tech fishing trawlers scrape bare an expanse of ocean floor 75 times larger than all the forests clearcut on land. All six species of sea turtle in U.S. waters are threatened with extinction, and marine mammals are increasingly assaulted by lethal noise from high-intensity military sonar and industrial activity. NRDC is working to create and implement a visionary, comprehensive strategy to revitalize the world's oceans, using proven solutions to restore and sustain diverse ocean life.
NRDC has led targeted campaigns to restrict bottom trawling, rebuild important fish populations, and block the worldwide deployment of deadly low-frequency sonar. Now we’re ramping up to establish a worldwide network of protected zones that will safeguard vital underwater habitats, much as national parks or wildlife refuges protect special ecosystems on land. We’re helping pass landmark national legislation to safeguard federal waters, working with coastal states to implement networks of protected areas and a new, holistic ecosystem-based approach to oceans management, and campaigning for a new international treaty to establish safe zones and other means of protecting wildlife on the high seas.
To learn more about NRDC, visit www.nrdc.org/about.
To learn more about our oceans program goals and achievements, see our latest Annual Report.
