20 Years of WILDCOAST
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20 YEARS OF Looking back over the past 20 years, our greatest success is the conservation of In defense of Cabo Pulmo National Park, one of the world's most 31 million acres of globally important coastlines, islands, coral reefs, mangrove successful marine reserves, lagoons, wetlands and ocean ecosystems in partnership with governments and WILDCOAST helps stop local communities. the “Cabo Cortés” mega- development project. - Serge Dedina, Ph.D. - Executive Director 2000 2010 WILDCOAST halts the development of dozens of WILDCOAST helps establish California’s destructive Escalera Nautica marina projects 545,280-acre marine protected area slated for the pristine shores of the Baja Peninsula. 2012 network and has since engaged more than 2008 10,000 students in its conservation. 2004 2 2000 5 0 WILDCOAST launches the “Don’t Eat Sea Turtle” 0 0 COSTASALVAJE, WILDCOAST’s Mexico division, is established. campaign in Mexico, reaching 100 million people and 0 2 curtails the illegal trade of sea turtle meat and eggs. 2 Laguna San Ignacio, the world’s last undeveloped gray whale breeding lagoon, is permanently protected by WILDCOAST and Serge Dedina and Wallace J. Nichols co-found the Laguna San Ignacio Conservation Alliance. Since then more WILDCOAST to preserve coastal and marine than 260 miles and 450,000 acres of its shoreline and ecosystems and wildlife in California and Mexico. mangroves have been protected. WILDCOAST.ORG WILDCOAST successfully sponsors California WILDCOAST is featured on "60 Minutes" for efforts to tackle legislation to strengthen enforcement against Rock band Linkin Park and the tsunami of plastic pollution and sewage at the U.S.- poaching in the state’s marine protected areas. WILDCOAST carry out a Mexico border and begins the installation of a trash campaign to raise awareness boom to help stop ocean-bound plastic waste. about mangrove conservation WILDCOAST achieves the protection of as a natural climate solution, 51,936 acres and 38 miles of reaching 50+ million people 9 wilderness coastline on the 1 WILDCOAST helps secure the legal protection in worldwide. Valle de los Cirios Pacific 0 Mexico for two Pacific Ocean hard coral species. Coast in central Baja. 2 The Keeling Curve Prize is awarded to WILDCOAST for WILDCOAST installs its third cutting-edge work in blue carbon ecosystem RADAR in California to conservation and restoration in Mexico. monitor poaching in 12,956 acres of the state’s marine 2016 2020 protected areas. 9 WILDCOAST plants 120,000 mangrove seedlings 1 2017 in Laguna San Ignacio and launches the restoration 2015 0 of 42 acres of salt marsh and seagrass habitat in California. 2 2020 WILDCOAST protects the 9.3- 0 6 2 mile Morro Ayuta beach in 1 Oaxaca, where more 0 In collaboration with the Center of Climate Change 0 0 than five million 2 Impacts and Adaptation at Scripps Institution of 2 2 3 olive ridley sea Oceanography, WILDCOAST launches Southern 0 1 turtles have In Huatulco and Isla Espiritu California’s first regional blue carbon study. 2 0 nested since Santo National Parks in Mexico, WILDCOAST 2 2018. installs 20 mooring buoys to protect coral reefs against anchoring vessels. Little did I know when I launched WILDCOAST that we would become a leader in developing natural WILDCOAST initiates its mangrove conservation program in climate solutions, especially in the area of mangrove and wetland protection and restoration. Mexico which, to date, has helped preserve more than 8,454 And thanks to our generous supporters, we can continue our globally important work. acres of mangroves preventing an estimated four million tons - Serge Dedina, Ph.D. - Executive Director of carbon from being released into the atmosphere..