Oceana press releases share updates on our campaigns and mission to protect and restore the world’s oceans. They include explanations of the issues that our oceans face, our work to solve those issues, and ways that you can advocate for ocean protection and restoration.
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As millions of Americans tune into Discovery Channel’s Shark Week to view hours of programming featuring powerful great white sharks, they might be surprised by a public service announcement (PSA)…
After voting closed and 7,000 votes were cast, Oceana announced today that Jean Beasley of Topsail Island, NC, and Rory & Maeve McCracken of Baton Rouge, LA, were chosen by…
WASHINGTON – Today, the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held its first-ever offshore wind lease sale, leasing 164,750 acres off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts….
Fourteen major animal welfare, environmental and conservation organizations are applauding Gov. Andrew Cuomo for signing into law A.1769b/S.1711b to end New York’s contribution to the dire collapse of shark populations…
The National Marine Fisheries Service this week declined to issue a required marine mammal take permit for California’s swordfish drift gillnet fishery in light of the recent entanglement of two…
Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld necessary protections for the endangered Western Population of Steller sea lions. The measures were put in place by the National Marine Fisheries…
SAN FRANCISCO— After more than five years of delay, the federal government today finally proposed to protect 36 areas of ocean habitat across six states for loggerhead sea turtles, in…
