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http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

Greenpeace campaign committed to defending the health of the world's oceans and the plants, animals and people that depend upon them

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Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition

http://www.asoc.org

a global coalition working to ensure that the Antarctic continent, its surrounding islands and the great Southern Ocean survive as the world's last unspoiled wilderness

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Bay Institute of San Francisco, The

http://www.bay.org/

protects and restores the ecosystems of San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and the rivers, streams, and watersheds tributary to the Estuary

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Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

http://www.ccamlr.org/pu/e/gen-intro.htm

has a mandate to conserve and manage mainly high-seas areas; concerned not only with fisheries regulation, it also strives to implement a holistic, or 'ecosystem approach' to the management of marine living resources in the Southern Ocean

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Communities and Coasts Programme

http://www.fspi.org.fj/program/coastal.htm

8 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

a resource supporting community based coastal resource management in the South Pacific

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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

http://floridakeys.noaa.gov/

information about the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

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Global Seagrass Monitoring Network

http://www.seagrassnet.org/

a global monitoring program to investigate and document both the status of seagrass resources world wide and the threats to this important and imperiled marine ecosystem

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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/

the principal adviser to the Commonwealth Government on the care and development of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, the largest natural feature on earth stretching more than 2,300km along the northeast coast of Australia

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Healthy Oceans

http://www.healthyoceans.ca/

features a letter to Canadian Parliament members regarding the protection of the oceans

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Locally Managed Marine Management Network

http://www.lmmanetwork.org/

a portal for information on community-based marine conservation and its practitioners

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Marine Reserves

http://www.marinereserves.org.uk/

a campaign that aims to ensure that the UK complies with the legislation to establish by 2015 an ecologically coherent network of marine reserves

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MARINET

http://www.marinet.org.uk

campaigns to protect the marine environment around the coast of the UK

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National Marine Sanctuaries

http://www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov/

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

information about our nation's marine sanctuaries -- their history and current management and their scientific and educational programs

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National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

http://www.nmsfocean.org/

dedicated to creating conservation-based education and outreach programs designed to preserve, protect and promote the nation's marine sanctuaries

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OceansLive

http://www.oceanslive.org/

a marine science portal from NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program seeking to integrate live video camera feeds with data as diverse as observations collected by citizen-scientists, satellite records, and measurements collected by monitoring stations within sanctuaries

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Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument updated

http://www.papahanaumokuakea.gov/

large marine protected area including submerged lands and marine waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

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Society For Ocean Sciences, The

http://www.societyoceansciences.org/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

dedicated to promoting preservation and an appreciation of marine environments through education, research and conservation

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Wildcoast

http://www.wildcoast.net/site/

protects and preserves coastal ecosystems and wildlife in the California and Latin America by building grassroots support, conducting media campaigns and establishing protected areas

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