TAKE ACTION!
Learn more about ACP’s current, upcoming, and past campaigns and ways you can take action!
Current Campaigns
Vote for the ocean
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A healthy and resilient ocean depends on the decisions you make on your ballot. Use your vote to be the voice for our ocean that sustains diverse communities of people and wildlife!
Voting gives us the power to choose leaders who can make decisions to protect our ocean, our air and water, conserve the natural places and wildlife we love, and ensure our communities have a voice in the decision-making process.
Healthy communities depend on healthy oceans, coasts, lakes and rivers. By exercising your right to vote — all the way down the ballot, from national to local — you can help protect these special places, the people who depend on them and the animals that live in them.
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Exploring our chaning ocean: impacts and response to ocean acidification in the U.S.A.
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Exploring Our Changing Ocean: Impacts and Response to Ocean Acidification in the U.S.A. is a collaborative OA communications project between the Aquarium Conservation Partnership, the OA Alliance, and NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program.
The ocean has absorbed approximately 90% of excess heat and 25% of the carbon dioxide emissions released into the atmosphere by humans. This increased carbon pollution has consequences for our ocean.
Working together, project partners are advancing communications about climate-ocean changes occurring regionally in the U.S. by presenting localized information on unique impacts, responses, and calls to action taking shape across the country.
By regionalizing information and storytelling, “Exploring Our Changing Ocean: Impacts and Response to OA” is supporting education, outreach and calls to action that associated aquarium partners and science institutions can utilize across their larger climate change narratives and outreach efforts.
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Energize for the ocean
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Energize for the Ocean is an upcoming campaign aimed to inspire, encourage, and enable aquarium visitors to take climate action!
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Our energy choices can help the ocean. The future of our ocean, our climate, and our communities depends on the energy choices that we make, together!
Aquariums are taking action, and so can you! Join us in taking ocean-saving actions from home.
Past Campaigns
No time to waste!
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Current plastic production, use, and disposal practices aren’t sustainable and cause significant harm to human health, the environment, and the economy, while driving deep societal injustices. We can solve this problem, and we need strong leadership from the international community – especially the United States – to reduce the amount of plastic produced at every stage of the plastic life cycle.
We can turn off the tap on plastic pollution - but we must take action now. On April 23, leaders from 175 countries are coming together to negotiate a landmark agreement to create the world’s first-ever Global Plastic Treaty, and we are asking you to.
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First step
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The goals of ACP’s 2018 “First Step” campaign were to:
1. Increase consumer awareness of and demand for alternatives to single-use plastic.
2. Reduce the unnecessary use of single-use plastic straws by individuals and businesses.
3. Strengthen the leadership role of aquariums as effective advocates for ocean and freshwater
health.
Through this campaign, over 700 businesses and 100,000 people joined ACP to reduce plastic!
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In Our Hands
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ACP’s first campaign, “In Our Hands”, ran in summer 2017 to announce our joint commitment to reduce single-use plastic products and packaging in our aquariums and to rally consumers to build market demand for innovative alternatives. We reached over 120 million people through media coverage and social media.
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National Marine Sanctuaries 50th Anniversary
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On October 23, 2022, aquariums across the United States celebrated the 50th anniversary of the National Marine Sanctuary System. Our fifteen national marine sanctuaries - from the Florida Keys to Stellwagen Bank, from Thunder Bay to Monterey Bay - are home to extraordinary species and some of the nation’s most iconic seascapes.
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The endangered species act 50th anniversary
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The 50th-year anniversary of the ESA marks a momentous milestone in environmental conservation and wildlife protection. Over the past five decades, this landmark legislation has played a vital role in safeguarding endangered and threatened species and preserving critical habitats. The anniversary serves as a testament to the collective efforts of conservationists, scientists, policymakers, and communities who have collaborated to protect numerous species on the brink of extinction. Various events, educational campaigns, and initiatives are being organized nationwide to celebrate this significant achievement and raise awareness about the importance of preserving endangered species and their habitats.
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