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Dear Friend,
Pollution, overfishing, climate change and oil drilling are threatening the very essence of our ocean ecosystems—which cover 70% of our Earth.
Without healthy oceans, people simply can’t survive. We depend on oceans for a stable climate, oxygen, food, and lifesaving medicines.
Today, you can help. Your donation to symbolically save a mile of ocean will help protect the life it contains and people it supports.
Our oceans have already suffered immense damage. 90 % of the oceans' top predators are gone. Entire populations of fish, and the communities and economies they support, have collapsed. Dead zones—vast swaths of ocean that can no longer support life—are spreading throughout the marine realm.
Now is our chance—perhaps our last—to reverse the damage. Your gift can help CI:
- Expand our work protecting three vast seascapes.
- Develop four more seascape projects in Brazil, the Central Pacific, Hawaii and the Western Indian Ocean.
- Reform fisheries to be more sustainable and less destructive.
- Work with businesses to develop sustainable guidelines for fish they sell.
- Advise policymakers, businesses and local communities on effective ways to balance economic necessities with the health of our environment.
- Protect other habitats including forests, that provide incredible benefits for us all.
CI has pioneered approaches that have protected some of the most beautiful, vital and threatened places on the planet. Help us do it again. Save a mile of ocean today.
Sincerely,
Beth Wallace
VP, Marketing Communications and Membership
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Boy with boat © CI/photo by Andry Randriantsoa
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