Financial Information

Oceana in Europe contributors provide the support that is essential to our campaigns to preserve and rebuild ocean life. Support comes from foundations, organizations and individuals in Europe and in the U.S. through cash donations and generous in-kind contributions of goods and services. Fundación Oceana (Spain) Click here to view Fundación Oceana’s 2020 audited financials Click … Read more

About Us

[drop_cap]O[/drop_cap]ceana was established in 2001 by a group of leading foundations — The Pew Charitable Trusts, Oak Foundation, Marisla Foundation (formerly Homeland Foundation), and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 1999, these foundations commissioned a study and discovered that less than 0.5 percent of all resources spent by environmental nonprofit groups in the United States went … Read more

Oil Slicks

Hydrocarbon spills in the marine environment continue to be one of the major threats to ecosystems and the species that comprise them. They cause direct impacts that can last up to 100 years, and they bring about a bioaccumulation of pollutants in organisms. Spills on the high seas can affect cetaceans, turtles and birds as … Read more