Here are some resources to help you get started protecting aquatic environments. In the past ten years, more than 1.5 million volunteers from 90 countries, including Canada, have participated in the annual International Coastal Clean Up.
Communities work together to create solutions that ensure our oceans and waterways are kept clean.
The National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes Natural Resource Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, unites people throughout the U.S. and Canada to protect the world's greatest freshwater seas, the surrounding ecosystem, and the benefits they provide to people and wildlife. Their research focuses particularly on the estuaries of the Pacific Northwest. The Ecology Action Centre has been an active advocate protecting the environment since 1972. The Centre's earliest projects included recycling, composting, and energy conservation. These are now widely recognized environmental issues.