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		Marine Conservation Marine Conservation What's New Threats to Oceans The Role of Oceans What You Can Do   World Ocean Day What We Do   Build resilience   Restore habitats   Use market-based   strategies   Set priorities   Manage threats Where We Work Marine Species Coral Reefs Contact Us Press Releases For Practitioners

Help Support Marine Conservation With your help, we can conserve marine habitat around the world for people and nature. Where We Work We operate more than 100 marine conservation projects in 22 countries and all coastal U.S. states. View an online photo essay from around the world and discover some of the marine areas that The Nature Conservancy is working to protect.

Covering more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, oceans are some of the most productive, yet threatened, natural systems in the world. With increasing pressures on our oceans and coasts, new and innovative strategies are needed to maintain and restore these important marine resources for people and nature.

Our goal is to protect and restore the most resilient examples of ocean and coastal habitats in ways that benefit marine life, local communities and economies by:

• Building resilience into protected areas
• Applying market-based strategies
• Protecting and restoring oceans and coasts  
• Setting priorities with science

How We Work

Conservancy scientists and staff work in the water and around the world to develope new tools and strategies. We provide worldwide leadership by catalyzing high impact partnerships, developing policy strategies and leading marine conservation research, science and innovation.

Through science, market-based strategies, restoration and resilient habitat building, The Nature Conservancy finds innovative, lasting solutions for marine conservation.

Nature picture credits (left to right): Photo © Lynn Mc Bride (California Pacific coastline); Photo © Kevin Schafer (Sea stars).