OCEAN RIVER INSTITUTE INC

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Phone: 617-661-6647

12 Eliot St
Cambridge
Massachusetts 02138
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Target demographics: 18,000 Ecostewards and EnviroGuardians in the US, UK, and BVI
Geographic areas served: New England, Alaska, Florida, California and British Virgin Islands

Direct beneficiaries per year: 15 partnering local environmental groups

Someone who had 3 hours of volunteer time could: Engage, educate and build relationships with a constituency of action-oriented ecostewards from all walks of life who care deeply about ecosystems and wildlife.

Geographic areas served: National/International

Mission:

The Ocean River Institute’s mission is to foster greater personal involvement in conservation, environmental monitoring, and protecting ecosystems by facilitating the grassroots efforts of groups working at local and regional levels.

Results:

Built and part of powerful coalitions that passed the Massachusetts Ocean Act (2007), Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary General Management, Cook Inlet (AK) beluga whale listing as an endangered population (NMEA), cold-stream salmon river preservation of the Westfield River in Western MA, assist the Virgin Island Environmental Council in successful court battle to stop unregulated development of BVI’s last pristine salt ponds (stop golf course), mangrove shore (stop cabana beaches), and Fisheries Protected Area (stop cement-lined mega-yacht marina, prevent transiting vessels from busting up fringing coral reefs.)

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Peggy

10/21/10

I wrote a letter to the Boston Globe after reading ORI's report about that paper's nod to the plan to pave a section of the Chelsea Creek rather than reclaim it as viable salt marsh. I live on a coastal marsh near New Haven, CT which is able to co-exist with our big port city commerce, but it takes... more »

gcamp38

08/29/10

ORI continues to be the leader in attaining and maintaining water quakity in the world's oceans, rivers and estuaries. Their new campaign to help clean up the Indian River Lagoon will benefit the IRL's Bottle-nosed Dolphin as well as other marine species and the avian and terrestrial species that ... more »

caroline6

08/06/10

Thank you ORI for bringing attention to our ocean and water systems! They are badly neglected and we are destroying them at an alarming rate. More attention must be paid to our most precious resource after air: water... more »

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