HEALTHY OCEANS = STRONG COMMUNITIES

Protecting our oceans means protecting all of us.

A documentary on how Marine Protected Areas are one of the most effective ways to care for the ocean and to protect the communities, jobs, and future that depend on it.

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Stand for Marine Protected Areas and Healthy Oceans

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We hold a simple truth: the ocean sustains us. It shapes our climate, feeds our communities, supports our economies, and holds the stories of those who came before us. Caring for it is a responsibility we share beyond borders and across generations.

Meeting that responsibility requires science-based solutions. Marine protected areas — including marine national monuments, sanctuaries, and other protected waters — work because they are guided by knowledge, long-term monitoring, and evidence of how ecosystems recover, and communities thrive.

When these places are given time and care, marine life returns, habitats heal, and benefits extend beyond their boundaries, supporting fishing, tourism, coastal jobs, and community wellbeing.

Right now, marine monuments and sanctuaries across the country are at risk of being weakened, opened to drilling and mining, or removed entirely by the federal government.

Healthy oceans mean safer coasts, stronger local economies, and shared wellbeing. Standing up for science-based stewardship, like protecting marine monuments and sanctuaries, ensures that these protected waters can continue to support life above and below the waterline, today and for generations to come.

Stand up for ocean protection and the places that sustain us all.

The ocean is closer to our lives than we think.

It shapes what we eat, how we work, and the future of our communities.

Protecting the ocean through science-based solutions, like Marine Protected Areas, isn’t just an environmental decision. It’s an economic, social, and deeply human one.

The ocean produces half of the oxygen we breathe.

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Most life on Earth lives in the ocean.

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The ocean absorbs most of the heat caused by climate change.

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The ocean supports the U.S. economy each year.

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Jobs across the U.S. depend on the ocean.

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This documentary brings together real stories, clear data, and practical solutions to show that we can protect the ocean and strengthen communities at the same time.

“There’s a disconnect: we live on a blue planet. Life began in the ocean and depends on its health. The ocean governs the climate.”

Rocío Lozano-Knowlton

Co-founder & Executive Director, MERITO Foundation

“The current administration opened nearly one million square kilometers of protected areas in the Pacific to industrial fishing and deep-sea mining.”

Dra. Frances Colón

Senior Director for International Climate Policy, Center for American Progress

“Fishermen are dependent on a productive marine environment. We've got to have clean water clean air and that leads to clean fish and that leads to a highly valuable product that we can make a living on and people can be fed by.”