Oceana

Are you into saving whales?  Dolphins?  Sea Turtles?  Fish?!  Then working with Oceana to protect our oceans and marine life might be for you!  Oceana (http://na.oceana.org/) is the largest international organization focused solely on ocean conservation. Their offices in North America, Central America, South America and Europe work together on a limited number of strategic, directed campaigns to achieve measurable outcomes that will help return our oceans to former levels of abundance. Their scientists work closely with their teams of economists, lawyers and advocates to achieve realistic results for the oceans.

Even if your thing isn't the ocean, maybe it's the environment as a whole, or animal rights...it doesn't matter, Oceana's actions list has something for everyone.  You can choose to help by doing anything from saving Sharks, Loggerhead and Sea Turtles, to trying to put a stop to off-shore drilling, to getting stores to post mercury warnings on seafood displays and pledging to not trash the oceans.  If you choose to put your activism skills to work on this cause, see http://na.oceana.org/en/act for a complete list of actions.  If you're interested in joining Oceana's Wavemaker program, it's is easy and free. Immediately after joining, they send you an e-mail confirming your membership and telling you about some opportunities you can take to protect the oceans.  Sign up here:  http://takeaction.oceana.org/t/7443/content.jsp?content_KEY=4154

• Oceana on twitter:  http://twitter.com/Oceana
• Oceana on facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/oceana
• To shop Oceana:  http://na.oceana.org/en/support-oceana/shop-oceana
• Donate to Oceana:  https://oceana.democracyinaction.org/o/209/t/7453/content.jsp?content_KEY=4155&utm_source=donate%2Bredirect&utm_medium=oceana&utm_campaign=fundraising or donate $10 to Oceana by texting OCEAN to 50555
• Adopt an Animal:  http://takeaction.oceana.org/t/7423/content.jsp?content_KEY=4144
• Pledge to be an ocean hero!

In addition to all those ways you can help, http://na.oceana.org/en/our-work catalogues different campaigns they're working on, and what you can do to help further whichever particular cause you choose.  Another cool feature this site has to offer is their animal discovery page (http://na.oceana.org/en/explore/creatures), which shows all the different life that inhabits our oceans, along with cool facts about them.  Their Living Blue page (http://na.oceana.org/en/living-blue), a clever take on "living green", is full of fun ways to get lost, including recipes, a green list, a plastic's pledge, do one green thing, 10 things you can do to save the ocean, and more! 

<3 and peace, Helena