The Marine Mammal Center advances global ocean conservation through rescue and rehabilitation, scientific research and education.

Since 1975, The Marine Mammal Center rescued more than 24,000 marine mammals along 600 miles of California coastline and in Hawaii.

As the largest marine mammal hospital in the world, caring for more marine mammals annually than any other organization, The Marine Mammal Center is a critical player in the development of a global stranding and response network similar to what has been established in the United States. The Center’s ultimate goal is to support a worldwide response network capable of responding to every marine mammal in need.

The Marine Mammal Center is well implanted on the west coast, especially in California and Hawaii:

• Sausalito - Main Hospital & Headquarters (Open to visitors)

• Moss Landing - Monterey Bay Operations

• Morro Bay - San Luis Obispo Operations

• Kona, Hawai‘i - Ke Kai Ola Hawaiian Monk Seal Hospital

In the Washington and Oregon area, there was no large, established marine mammal organization like The Marine Mammal Center to care for stranded marine mammals. There was a tiny, four-person organization without the capacity or authorization to care for some marine mammal species. The Center shared its experience in order to help this group establish the Pacific Northwest’s only hospital dedicated to marine wildlife, where several species of marine animals can be rehabilitated for the first time in the region. The SeaLife Rescue Center, SR3, opened in spring 2021, just south of Seattle in Des Moines, Washington.

The Marine Mammal Center is the largest marine mammal teaching hospital and a critical training ground for veterinary and animal care professionals from around the world, combining high-quality animal care with a hands-on learning environment. Veterinary professionals and students apply for competitive internship, externship, residency or international veterinary fellowships, giving veterinary students, animal care professionals and marine science students worldwide a chance to learn and train alongside the Center’s experts.

The Center’s Teaching Hospital trains more than 100 student and professional participants from around the world each year. In includes several students from France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Italy, Greece ...

SeaTrees, by non-profit Sustainable Surf, makes it easy for anyone who cares about the ocean (don’t we all) to directly support communities planting and protecting blue-carbon coastal ecosystems. The most effective way to suck carbon out of the atmosphere - Period.

As an ocean-focused platform for people and brands to take direct action on climate change, we work with communities around the world to plant and protect ‘blue-carbon’ coastal ecosystems - mangrove and kelp forests, seagrass, ridge-to-reef watersheds, and coral reefs.

Our projects do a lot more than sequester carbon. We measure our impact with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The regeneration and protection of these ecosystems provides critical habitat for countless species, sustainable long-term employment for local communities, and protection for the coast from storm surges and sea level rise.

Why blue-carbon projects?

Unlike other tree planting and carbon offset programs and projects around the world, the sole focus of SeaTrees is on blue-carbon coastal ecosystems. As surfers and ocean-lovers, we choose these spaces, because they’re the place where we play. As environmentalists and ocean-health activists, we focus on blue-carbon ecosystems because:

1. They’re highly effective at carbon sequestration

2. They’re critical ecosystems on the verge of collapse

3. Methods exist to restore and regenerate these ecosystems

4. The story to protect ocean health is powerful and compelling

5. It’s not too late to act, but we must act fast

All SeaTrees projects provide significant social and economic benefits. Every project is assessed and measured against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Seatrees runs projects around the world, including California in Palos Verdes and Hawaii in Maui.

With your support, they’re protecting a coastal watershed through riparian restoration and regenerative agriculture in Maui, Hawaii.

In the HO’OWAIWAI Watershed Project (pronounced “ho-oh-vye-vye”), SeaTrees and Regenerative Education Centers restore and regenerate critical coastal watershed systems, known in the Hawaiian language as an Ahupua’a (pronounced “ahoo-poo-ah-ah”). We will focus on two Mokus, or districts, within these Ahupau’a: Maliko Gulch and Launiupoko.

With the capacity to restore up to 2 to 3 million sq ft of this Ahupau’a, their goal is to use the natural holistic system of a "Ridge to Reef '' watershed to restore the valley and begin at the heart of the problem, working our way up while keeping the watershed and water sink intact.

Regenerative Education Centers restores and maintains the land by direct restoration of the stream bed and regenerative agricultural practices, which then serves the community as a source of organic produce, erosion prevention, and protection for the neighboring reefs.