Ocean Conservancy

🐊 👀 Crocodiles have been around for more than 200 million years, longer than the dinosaurs. The saltwater crocodile is the largest reptile alive today and has the strongest bite of any creature ever measured, with a force of 3,700 psi (pounds per square inch)!

Read more for World Crocodile Day: https://bit.ly/4ozkKyA

📸: Caroline Jones/flickr

🐢 It's World Sea Turtle Day! 🐢

We're spending today (and let's be honest, most days!) celebrating sea turtles. And now more than ever, these beloved animals need our help: https://bit.ly/4xvzzGu

Last fall, Ocean Conservancy-led groundbreaking research on plastic ingestion in wildlife found that more than half of the sea turtles studied had plastic in their digestive systems at the time of their deaths. To stop the global plastics problem, we need to make fewer plastics AND expand reuse systems that can reduce our reliance on single-use plastics altogether.

The bipartisan REUSE ACT would direct the EPA to examine reuse systems and their potential to reduce waste. Take a moment for World Sea Turtle Day and add your name to protect these iconic creatures: https://bit.ly/4xvzzGu

📸 Lewis Burnett/Ocean Image Bank
📸 Troy Mayne
📸 Jeff Biege
📸 Michele Roux/Ocean Image Bank
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Last week, Ocean Conservancy had the awesome opportunity to join United States SailGP Team's Hans Henken for a tour of Bureo, a California-based facility that collects and recycles end-of-life fishing gear and turns the materials into new, everyday products, and a Global Ghost Gear Initiative partner. Check out these powerful photos, then read more about our visit: https://bit.ly/4vdtQ6K

Ghost gear (abandoned, discarded or otherwise lost fishing gear) is the most prevalent and deadliest form of debris in our ocean. And through our Protect Where We Play initiative, the U.S. SailGP Team has made the fight to combat ghost gear personal—to the team, the sail community, our ocean and all who depend on it.

Join Team Ocean and take action with the U.S. SailGP Team, GGGI and Ocean Conservancy to fight the most dangerous plastic pollution in our ocean: https://bit.ly/4uBPNey

Don’t let the sun set on your chance to have your World Ocean Day gift MATCHED! ⏳

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to act, this is it.

📈 Our ocean is facing mounting threats.

⚠️ Plastic pollution is inundating our coastlines.

🪸 Coral reefs are bleaching under rising temperatures.

🚨 Fragile marine habitats are under threat.

But it’s NOT too late to fight back. When you donate before midnight, your gift will be MATCHED up to $30K—doubling the impact on our ocean. Don’t let this opportunity pass! Help protect marine life, restore critical habitats and support people working on the front lines of ocean conservation: https://bit.ly/3QdYeOO

📸: Michele Roux/Ocean Image Bank

Take action for our ocean this World Ocean Day! 🌊

Protecting our blue planet from biodiversity loss, warming waters and the deluge of ocean plastic pollution requires all hands on deck and all sides of the aisle. This World Ocean Day, you have the opportunity to demand that members of Congress prioritize our ocean throughout the FY27 budget and appropriations process.

Take action today: https://bit.ly/3OQN7eh

📸: NOAA Fisheries/The Ocean Agency/Ocean Image Bank

The ocean is vast, deep and powerful—but fragile in ways we are only beginning to understand.

Covering more than 70% of this planet, our ocean produces more than half the oxygen we breathe, regulates climate and tirelessly works to sustain life on Earth.

But our ocean’s waters are warming. Currents are changing. Incredible creatures are disappearing. Plastic pollution is suffocating life. The sea is absorbing more than it can bear. And time is running out.

This World Ocean Day, your support fuels work to keep our ocean going—restoring habitats, protecting wildlife and empowering people who defend its future.

If you’ve ever felt peace watching a sunrise on the sea’s horizon or awe at life beneath the waves, you already know why all this matters. Help us ensure our ocean can continue to sustain life—not just for us, but for generations to come.

Donate now: https://bit.ly/3QdYeOO

📸: Masayuki Agawa/Ocean Image Bank

World Ocean Day has finally arrived, and SOREL is doubling all donations to Ocean Conservancy up to $30,000! Don’t miss this chance to make 2X the waves for the planet that gives us all so much. 🌊

Celebrate with us: https://bit.ly/4uFCIS7

NEW: More than 1.5 MILLION pounds of trash were cleaned up from Alaskan coastlines in 2025! 🌊

Developed in collaboration with Alaska Sea Grant and Sitka Sound Science Center, our recent statewide report shows just how impactful cleanups organized by Tribes, communities, fishermen, business, nonprofits and other across Alaska were last year. More than 1,600 ocean advocates and 25 lead entities helped make this incredible impact happen!

Our own Arctic Marine Debris Manager Kristina Tirman says it best: “This report gives us an opportunity to better understand the scale of the marine debris problem in Alaska and highlight the incredible efforts happening in communities across the state.”

We are proud to support and amplify the work of the organizations and Tribes who have been leading this work to protect Alaska’s coastlines and communities. Check out the full report PDF for all the incredible data from 2025’s Alaska cleanups! 🚮

🗞️ Learn more: https://bit.ly/4uQHn3W

📊 Full report: https://bit.ly/49E6QVJ

🌊📢 Our ocean is speaking out, and we need Congress to listen up.

A rare "super El Niño" is likely to develop in the Pacific Ocean this year, and data show it could be among the most powerful events ever recorded.

This should be a wake-up call for lawmakers on Capitol Hill. As Congress considers the Trump administration's proposed drastic and dangerous budget cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—the eyes and ears of our ocean that everyone across the U.S. relies on—they risk putting Americans in jeopardy with a lack of access to daily and extreme weather forecasting.

Read more on the importance of NOAA from our own Jeff Watters in The Hill: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5905886-super-el-nino-impacts-economy/amp/

Then, add your name and tell your elected leaders that our ocean is not partisan, and it needs everyone on both sides of the aisle: https://takeaction.oceanconservancy.org/page/190746/action/1