Marine wildlife faces threats to their habitat from chemicals, overfishing, hunting and pollution—even noise can put some species at risk.
Whales, dolphins, sharks, sea lions and seals, manatees—all these species and many more suffer due to human exploitation of the ocean and its resources. It is up to us to protect them.
![right whale breaching in the North Atlantic](/sites/default/files/styles/300x300/public/2018/04/right-whale-310679.jpg?h=04d92ac6&itok=ifUl3u9Y)
Are all that remain; this species is critically endangered despite Endangered Species Act protections.
![Stellar sea lion sitting on a rock in the Pacific Ocean](/sites/default/files/styles/300x300/public/2018/10/stellar-sea-lions-457417_0.jpg?h=04d92ac6&itok=uiiXNvDt)
In Steller sea lions throughout Alaska's Aleutian Islands over the past 30 years.
![Sea lion with a neck injury from being tangled in a net](/sites/default/files/styles/300x300/public/2018/10/sea-lion-neck-injury-357441.jpg?h=04d92ac6&itok=G49ODtOA)
Are estimated to be killed or injured by commercial fisheries every year.
![Fins being removed from a great hammerhead shark](/sites/default/files/styles/400x400/public/2018/04/shark-finning-406917.jpg?h=6f3285a6&itok=aUxwcE_K)
Each year across the globe, tens of millions of sharks are hunted down, only to have their fins sliced off and their bodies thrown back into the ocean, often left to die an agonizing death. You can help.