Requiem for the Vaquita Marina (Phocoena sinus)

May 21, 2018
JYC&ME_1.jpeg In the face of adversary, our species is a remarkable adapter. When confronted with issues of urgency, we mobilize rapidly to overcome challenges ...

"Protect the Ocean and You Protect Yourself" - with Jean-Michel Cousteau

April 27, 2018
JMC_and_Barracuda_0.jpgJean-Michel Cousteau shares his words of wisdom about the urgent need to connect each and every one of us to the value of the ocean ...

Jean-Michel Cousteau Dispatch - April 2018

April 22, 2018

_CEV3927.png There is untold beauty and inspiration on our ocean planet. We can all make a difference – by protecting and conserving all life on our water planet, for us now, and for generations to come ...

Environmental News March 26 - April 16, 2018

Quote for the week

"The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity… that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world."
— Gaylord Nelson

OFS Defiende la Integridad de la Bella isla Holbox, en Quintana Roo, Mexico

Abril de 2018
Screen Shot 2018-04-11 at 7.57.32 AM_1.png La preciada isla de Holbox en Quintana Roo, sufre un nuevo embate a su integridad ecológica y los derechos de sus habitantes ...

OFS Defends the Integrity of the Beautiful Holbox Island, in Quintana Roo, Mexico

April 11, 2018
Screen Shot 2018-04-11 at 7.57.32 AM_1.png The prized island of Holbox, Quintana Roo, suffers a new attack on its ecology and the respect for the rights of its inhabitants ...

Environmental News March 8 - March 26, 2018

Quote for the week

"We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature."
— Henry David Thoreau

In Loving Memory of Tim Trabon

March 22, 2018
Screen Shot 2018-03-22 at 9.03.56 PM_0.pngTim Trabon…my "brother" has left us for the Big Blue ...

Environmental News January 2 - February 14, 2018

Quote for the week

"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
— David Attenborough

Jean-Michel Cousteau's Letter to Peter Fankhauser, CEO Thomas Cook Group

© Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures SocietyWe know so much more about wild animals today than we did decades ago when humans first started removing them from their families and forcing them to entertain us in captivity. Science tells us that orcas are intelligent, social, far-ranging, and psychologically complex animals with long lifespans ...