To celebrate and raise awareness of the worlds wild fauna and flora.

MacGillivray Family founded the non-profit MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation.

Jacques Cousteau invented the Aqua-Lung, a predecessor to the SCUBA systems used by divers worldwide today.

James Dilley worked to protect open space in Laguna Canyon.

John Muir advocated preservation, feeling that natural areas promote mental health.

Jane Goodall is an authority on wild chimpanzees.

"The key is to see ourselves as a part of the natural systems that support us."

Australian Aborigines Protecting Wetlands by working to conserve the environment around them.

Benjamin Kahn involves school children in regrowing coral to help save damaged reefs in the Red Sea.

Caroline Cannon is an Inupiat indigenous leader who is a champion for biodiversity in the Arctic Sea.

Chico Mendes gave the ultimate sacrifice in defending rainforests.

Chief Oren Lyons is an internationally venerated advocate for preserving biodiversity.

Dennis Weaver was an actor and advocate for animals and ecologically sustainable living.

Dian Fossey worked to protect the endangered Mountain Gorilla.

Dr. Elvia Niebla Soil Scientist is dedicated to soil conservation.

Dr. Vandana Shiva works to preserve biodiversity for the planet.

Dr. Shirley McGreal founded the International Primate Protection League.

Fin Donnelly works to keep our rivers and waters clean.

Friends of the Sea Lion rescue, treat, and release these mammals back into the ocean.

Help Mary Save Coral works to repopulate the world's coral.

J.N. (Ding) Darling was a conservationist and cartoonist who used his art to raise awareness about the environment.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was instrumental in preserving the Florida Everglades.

Jack Johnson is a musician who encourages kids to take care of the environment.

Mike Browne started Get the Lead Out of Fishing.

Olivia Bouler Olivia created 500 paintings of her feathered friends to raise funds for Audubon's bird rescue.

Reef Ball Foundation restores damaged coral reef systems around the world.

Wyland is an internationally recognized artist and marine life conservationist.

Roxanne Kremer works with the Mestizo Indians of the Peruvian rainforest to save pink dolphins.

Nancy Caruso is a marine biologist who helped bring kelp forests back to the California coast.

Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement that plants trees to help restore the desolate ecosystem in Africa.

Zander Srodes and Turtle Talks has educated over 5,000 students on sea turtles and marine conservation.

"The mission of this JASON Expedition is to work with our host researchers to better understand what wetlands are, why they are disappearing, and how to best manage these ecosystems in Louisiana, in your neighborhood, and around the world."

Learn about Wetlands the world over and the heroes saving them.

Stephanie Jenouvrier is a population ecologist researching the effects of climate change on emperor penguins.

South Luangwa Conservation Society together with our neighbours – ZAWA – the wildlife authority – joined forces to try and save the mum and baby elephant.

Jim and Jamie Dutcher are wolf conservationists.

Yevgenia Chirikova found out a national forest was quietly being sold off. What she did to try to save it may change Russia forever.

John Dennis Liu says humans can stop destroying their planet. He's documented ecological restoration projects around the world to prove it.

Ikal Angelei is helping lead a campaign to stop construction of the Gibe III dam in Ethiopia that threatens the water supply and way of life of tens of thousands of indigenous people.

Jack Rudloe works to conserve the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico.

Gail Kaaialii: Biologist investigates the origins of life and helps others value all life forms.

Ric O'Barry works to free captive dolphins around the world.

Young Olivia loves birds, and creates over 500 paintings of her feathered friends to raise funds for Audubon's bird rescue.

Karim Sall, from Senegal, is nicknamed, Mr. Whale for his devotion to protecting sea life, and for his activism for ocean conservation in Senegal.

One World One Ocean's new animated video celebrates the wonders of the ocean with stunning facts about our connection to the planet's lifeline.

Ikal Angelei returned to her homeland in Kenya to stop construction on a $60 billion dam that would imperil Lake Turkana and the people whose survival depends on it.  

Caroline Cannon, an Inupiat indigenous leader, takes aim at offshore oil drilling that threatens her people and the biodiversity in the Arctic Sea.

One woman's effort to save the world's underrated natural resource, coral.

A tiger tells us his story.

The ECO Warrior, James Pribram, works tirelessly in hopes that the ocean will be preserved for the future.

Dibesh Karmacharya is a conservation biologist who returned to his home country of Nepal to contribute his genetics expertise to a momentous task: conserving the Bengal tiger in the Himalayas.

In the face of rampant political corruption, Evgenia Chirikova is mobilizing her fellow Russian citizens to reroute a highway that would destroy Moscow’s Khimki Forest.

Pinkey the Owl's extraordinary story of a "soft release" back into the wild.

Monique Pool: Environmental conservationist. Founder of the Green Heritage Fund Suriname. Friend to all animals, especially sloths.

Tuy Sereivathana, an animal rights hero.

An extraordinary look at animal activist Ric O'Barry (from the feature documentary The Cove).

Tackling climate change, one penguin at a time

Lesley Rochat, also known as the Shark Warrior due to her passionate efforts in shark conservation, is a marine and shark conservationist, filmmaker, photographer, writer and inspirational speaker.

Nan Hauser is a marine biologist in the Cook Islands working to save whales. "They know something we don't."

William Shatner asks you to save Kipper and protect the Bering Sea.