Save Coastal Wildlife Nonprofit
We are dedicated to restoration, research and educating people about the protection of coastal wildlife along the Jersey Shore!
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Save Coastal Wildlife does not exist without your support. Help fund our important research and community science activities to protect biodiversity along the Jersey Shore and understand better essential coastal animals including horseshoe crabs, harbor seals, harbor porpoises, ospreys, seahorses, and others.
Threats to Coastal Wildlife
Expanding development, increasing human populations and plastic pollution, and the strengthening effects of global warming and other human induced activities, including bycatch and ghost gear from commercial fishing, and the commercialization of our marine environment, are putting great pressure on many plants and animals, and the coastal-estuarine environment in New Jersey.
Sub-adult Bottlenose dolphin found dead along the Navesink River 2008.
In 2019 The Atlantic Horseshoe Crab Population
in the New York City region, including Raritan Bay & Sandy Hook Bay in New Jersey, has trended downward from good, to neutral, and now poor as per the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.
Decreasing fish species along the Jersey Shore:
adult weakfish populations have been on the decline since 2003, and adult winter flounder populations have been steadily declining since the early 1980s, according to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.
Over 30 Species of wildlife
that breed, migrate or overwinter along the Jersey Shore are listed by the State of New Jersey as endangered, threatened, or a species of special concern including several species of whales, turtles, and coastal birds.
Over 600% along the New Jersey Shore
is the percentage of tidal flood events that have increased in the past 60 years due to sea level rise from melting land-based glaciers in mountainous and polar regions in the North Atlantic, especially Greenland, due to global warming.
Over 70% of Seabird & Shorebird
populations have declined in the past 50 years in the United States as they compete with people for food and space to rest and feed during migration.
Over 120 mortalities of Humpback, Minke, and Northern Right whale species
have occurred in the New York-New Jersey Bight since 2017 with many showing evidence of human interaction, either ship strikes or entanglement in commercial fishing gear.
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Wildlife Cannot Wait Any Longer.
Volunteering with Save Coastal Wildlife is a great way to help the coastal plants and animals you love while making friends and discovering more about the Jersey Shore.
Save Coastal Wildlife Nonprofit leads citizen-science, education and conservation programs to help protect the fragile coastal biodiversity of the Jersey Shore and to get people outdoors to better understand our natural environment and the ways in which humans, plants and animals (from the largest to the smallest organism) are inextricably intertwined and impacted.
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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
~ Quote from Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962).
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Since 2018
Save Coastal Wildlife Nonprofit has been dedicated to educating people about coastal biodiversity and restoring habitat along the Jersey Shore - from Raritan Bay to Delaware Bay, New Jersey.
We inspire action for greater preservation and empathy for the beautiful biodiversity along the Jersey Shore and our blue planet!
Save Coastal Wildlife is made up of animal lovers, educators, scientists, surfers, naturalists, community leaders and many other people devoted to the protection of the Jersey Shore’s biodiversity.
Save Coastal Wildlife takes action through education, restoration & research!
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