Marine Policy & Law List

Clean Water Action is an environmental advocacy group, which focuses on canvassing and gaining support for political issues and candidates who support the concerns of the group. Their mission is 'to secure clean, safe and affordable water; prevention of health threatening pollution; creation of environmentally safe jobs and businesses; and empowerment of people to make democracy work.'

CCWA represents more than 100 environmental organisations across Western Australia, acting as an advocate for conservation since 1967, working directly with the government, media, industry, community groups, and political parties to promote a more sustainable WA and to protect our natural environment. This includes the coastline and marine areas, and issues that potentially will impact on the marine life environment, including pollution control, and includes supporting campaigns such as Protect Ningaloo Reef, and creating new National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries.

CLF protects New England's environment, using the law, science and the market to create solutions that preserve the natural resources of the area, build healthy communities, and sustain a vibrant economy.

Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI-CFF) is a multilateral partnership of six countries working together to sustain extraordinary marine and coastal resources by addressing crucial issues such as food security, climate change and marine biodiversity. The countries involved are Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor Leste

The David Suzuki Foundation works with government, business and individuals to conserve our environment by providing science-based research, education and policy work, and acting as a catalyst for the change that today's situation demands. The foundation is dedicated to protecting the diversity of nature and inspiring Canadians to act with nature in mind. They advocate for better management and protection of coastal waters to help endangered species and restore biodiversity, sustainable fishing, and protection of marine life .

The DSCC was founded to address the issue of bottom trawling on the high seas in the absence of an effective governance regime. The coalition is made up of over 70 non-governmental organisations (NGOs), fishers organisations and law and policy institutes, all committed to protecting the deep sea. The alliance works to promote the conservation of biodiversity on the high seas, and is calling on the United Nations General Assembly to institute a moratorium on high seas bottom trawling in order to protect seamounts, cold-water corals and vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems. DSCC members include local, regional, national and international conservation and environmental organizations.

DEEPWAVE e.V. was founded in 2003 by the marine biologist and deep sea researcher Onno Gro, and a small group of ocean enthusiasts in Hamburg. Since then, it has successfully campaigned regionally and internationally for the protection of the oceans and their inhabitants. DEEPWAVE's goal is to contribute to the development of environmentally friendly structures for the marine ecosystem, as well as to inspire individuals to conserve the oceans. They do this by raising awareness of the threats to the oceans, spreading scientific knowledge, contributing to improve marine policies, and providing a forum for networking.

The German Foundation for Marine Conservation is a group of committed animal welfare and nature conservation advocates, who fight for the protection of threatened marine animals and the preservation of marine habitats. They support and carry out projects, campaigns, and initiatives aimed at conserving marine life. This includes marine & nature conservation; animal welfare; science and research; and development cooperation. Since 2022 they have had a long term eDNA Project on Fiji-Island to identify habitats of guitarfish species and of young bullsharks. They support projects to protect sharks, rays, sea turtles and marine mammals, restoration of coral reefs and seagrass beds, for sustainable fishing and ocean cleanups. Their educational and awareness-raising work aims at anchoring the importance of marine conservation in people's minds and actions. LinkedIn address: https://de.linkedin.com/company/deutsche-stiftung-meeresschutz

Dilmah Conservation was established with the stated purpose ' to extend the Dilmah philosophy of making business a matter of human service, to include the protection of and sustainable interaction with the environment'. To this end, they are involved in many areas of conservation, including a marine programme which focuses on conserving marine habitats (including 'carrying out species diversity assessments, information sharing and working with relevant local and national institutions to ensure conservation of these habitats') and conserving the endangered Dugong via an information dissemination campaign targeting school children and fisher communities in the North of the country, as well as carrying out surveys and information gathering.

Earth Island Institute is known for its activism on environmental issues. Founded in 1982 by environmentalist David Brower, it is a non-profit environmental organization and fiscal sponsor to more than seventy-five projects working in the areas of conservation, including amongst many others, projects related to the oceans. Not without controversy, they have targeted fishing methods and plastic pollution of the oceans, amongst many other issues.

Earth Justice is a non-profit public interest environmental law organisation which uses the power of law to protect people's health, to preserve natural places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change. Earthjustice fights to protect the ocean ecosystem from overfishing, massive pollution and habitat loss, aiming at a healthy ocean strong enough to weather the changes ahead.

ELC works 'to transform the law to recognize and protect nature's inherent rights to exist, thrive and evolve'. Members of the group focus on the rights of nature in law, in order to reverse what they regard as a trend of environmental degradation, and that current environmental laws have been unable to solve this. Ocean Rights are included in their portfolio, which includes a focus on coral reefs, marine pollution, rights of coastal communities, marine protected areas amongst others. They have offices in Washington State, California, Colorado, Mexico City, New York, and Toronto, and operate internationally. On their website are toolkits giving information of various specialist areas such as coral reefs and marine pollution.