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What Would Oceana Do With $200000.00?

by Cathy on October 6, 2010

Oceana has the opportunity to win $200000.00 and they need your help. All you have to do is go vote, once a week and on November 29th, the organization with the most votes gets money.

Ok, who is sponsoring this? TakePart and American Express. TakePart is an independent online community that connects its members directly to the issues that inspires them to engage, contribute and take action. Here is a motivated video from TakePart.

So what will Oceana do with $200000.00? This is what they plan on doing with the money….

- Launch major research missions, like our ongoing Gulf of Mexico expedition.
- Advocate for better protections for sharks and sea turtles in Washington, DC.
- Protect thousands of miles of the ocean from destructive fishing practices, like bottom trawling.

Pass this on to your friends and start voting today!

OCEANA – Be an Ocean Hero

by Cathy on May 20, 2010

What an awesome website, Oceana. Watch the video below and then please proceed to pledge to help our oceans. It is up to all of us.

Save The Sharks – January Jones Joins OCEANA in Public Awareness

by Cathy on January 22, 2010


WOW IS THIS A POWERFUL AD? Great job OCEANA and thank you January Jones for being the face in this ad campaign to save the sharks.

The following is copied from OCEANA website.

January Jones in the shark pen at Bimini from Oceana on Vimeo.

You should be scared for sharks, too.

Movies such as “Jaws” have forever branded sharks as fearsome predators. This reputation couldn’t be farther from the truth as most sharks are not dangerous to humans at all. In reality, we should be scared for sharks, and not scared of sharks. Sharks have swum the world’s oceans since before the dinosaur era. They inhabit almost every ocean on Earth and are vital to the health of our planet.

Sharks are apex predators, meaning they are at the very top of the marine food web. Unfortunately, sharks are slow growing and have very few offspring, making them extremely vulnerable to overfishing.

Each year, humans kill more than 100 million sharks worldwide. Most sharks are killed for just their fins, which are used to make shark fin soup. Unable to rebound from overfishing, some shark populations have declined by 99 percent.

Learn more about Oceana’s campaign to save sharks.

January Jones is Scared for Sharks from Oceana on Vimeo.