Puget Sound is an inland sea, a deep and intricate network of channels and inlets carved by glaciers and fed by rivers running off the Olympics and Cascades. It is the marine heart of the Northwest, home to the southern resident orcas, to Chinook salmon, and to a densely settled shoreline where a great metropolis meets a fragile estuary. The fate of the orca and the salmon it eats has become the measure of this whole ecosystem.
The organizations here restore nearshore habitat and river estuaries, recover the salmon runs the orcas depend on, and defend the sound against the pressures of growth. Their work ties the region’s future to the survival of its most iconic wildlife an ecosystem seen through the eye of a whale.
Environmental Organizations in This Bioregion
161 organizations working across this landscape.
2DegreesC
Crowdsourcing climate data from remote areas!
350 Seattle
350 Seattle is a 1% for the Planet nature nonprofit partner associated with climate adaptation. Based in Seattle, WA, United States of America, it is included in the...
Adventure Travel Conservation Fund
ATCF is a nonprofit that unites the global travel community to fund grassroots conservation projects protecting the places that make adventure travel possible.
Aliados
Runa Foundation works to create new value for tropical forests that benefit local people and the forest eco-systems.
Bainbridge Island Land Trust
The Bainbridge Island Land Trust’s mission is to conserve and steward the diverse natural environments of Bainbridge Island for the benefit of all.
Barnacles & Bees
Connection kids & families' to Nature.
Beacon Food Forest
The Beacon Food Forest is a grassroots project created and powered by volunteers Our vision is a world where every community participates in creating local food...
Bike Works
Bike Works expands access to bicycles and bike mechanic skills while building a diverse and inclusive cycling community.
Birds Connect Seattle
Bird conservation in the greater Seattle-metro area.
Blue Endeavors
Blue Endeavors networks and develops engaged citizens, divers, students, and scientists, across the world,cultures, and disciplines, to collaborate, source and devel...
Braided River
Braided River weaves together exquisite photography and powerful stories that inspire a sense of wonder and responsibility for wild and sacred lands– leading to thri...
BURN Design Lab
Cooking a meal shouldn’t be harmful to health or the planet.
Cape Perpetua Collaborative
We are a partnership which works to ensure protections from Land to Sea from Oregon's largest marine reserve to the Siuslaw National Forest.
Carnation Farms
Carnation Farms is a certified-organic, non-profit farm and community hub that leverages regenerative principles to strengthen and transform our food system. We envi...
Cascade Bicycle Club
Cascade Bicycle Club brings people together to experience the joy of bicycling through transportation, recreation, and friendship. We collaborate with members, volun...
Cascadia Research Collective
Cascadia conducts long-term whale research, large whale disentanglement and stranding programs on the U.S. West Coast, and toothed whale research in Hawai'i.
Center for Conservation Biology
MISSION STATEMENT: OUR MISSION IS TO PROVIDE THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY WITH THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO DRIVE THOUGHTFUL, SCIENCE-BASED CONSERVATION, TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN T...
Center for Whale Research
Every year for over four decades we have collected detailed demographic data on the Southern Resident killer whale population, recording all observed births and dea...
Chef's Village
Chef's Village provides education on food, cooking, and sustainability for teenagers, young adults, and anyone who wants to be a part of the solution.
Climate Change for Families DBA WA Climate Heroes
Climate Change For Families is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal bring youth and families together, in an inter - generati...
Climate Collaborative
The Climate Collaborative seeks to leverage the power of the natural products industry to reverse climate change.
Climate Solutions
Climate Solutions’ mission is to accelerate clean energy solutions to the climate crisis. Our vision is a thriving, equitable Northwest, powered by clean energy, ins...
Coastal Watershed Institute
The Coastal Watershed Institute (CWI) is a small but mighty placed 501c3 dedicated to conserving and promoting wild cold water coastal ecosystems
Common Threads Farm
At Common Threads Farm we are on a mission to connect kids to food, community, and environment through hands-on, seed-to-table education.
Communities for a Healthy Bay
Communities for a Healthy Bay brings people together to achieve a clean and healthy South Sound that benefits both our community and the surrounding environment
Conservation College
Conservation College is a 1% for the Planet nature nonprofit partner associated with terrestrial ecosystems. Based in Puyallup, WA, United States of America, it is i...
Conservation Northwest
Connect, protect, and restore wildlife and wildlands of the Pacific Northwest
Discover Your Northwest
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Seattle, WA, that partners with public lands managers across the Pacific Northwest.
Duwamish River Community Coalition
Our mission is to elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment ...
EarthCorps
EarthCorps builds a global community of young leaders trained in ecological restoration. Each year we bring together passionate and hardworking young adults — who w...
Earth Economics
EARTH ECONOMICS QUANTIFIES AND VALUES THE BENEFITS NATURE PROVIDES TO COMMUNITIES. AS A GLOBAL LEADER IN SCIENCE-BASED ECONOMICS, WE DEVELOP PRAGMATIC, COLLABORATIVE...
Earth Ministry
TO INSPIRE AND MOBILISE THE FAITH COMMINITY TO TAKE A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN BUILDING A JUST AND SUSTAINABLE
EcoLearning Together
Youth Led Environmental Organization restoring polluted, degraded ecosystems near urban environments.
Facing the Future
Facing the Future’s mission is to develop young people’s capacity and commitment to create thriving, sustainable and peaceful local and global communities.
Forterra
Forterra envisions people and nature thriving together in a place where everyone belongs.
Friends of the San Juans
Friends’ mission is to bring people and nature together to protect the San Juan Islands and the Salish Sea through education, science, policy, and law.
Front and Centered
Front and Centered is a statewide, community driven coalition working to achieve environmental justice by asserting policy solutions that center equity. Our members ...
Global Ocean Health program of the National Fisheries Conservation Center
Global Ocean Health works to protect the ocean's ability to feed billions—tackling carbon pollution that drives acidification, warming, oxygen loss and more.
Greater Good Charities
Greater Good Charities works to help people, pets, and the planet by mobilizing in response to need and amplifying the good.
Great Peninsula Conservancy
Protecting forever the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the Great Peninsula of Washington’s Puget Sound.
Grist Magazine
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Hoja Nueva
Hoja Nueva is committed to safeguarding the rich biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon by conserving intact ecosystems, confronting threats to wildlife, conducting cut...
International Living Future Institute
To lead & support the transformation toward communities that are socially just, culturally rich & ecologically restorative.
IslandWood
Islandwood is an environmental education organization that inspires youth to make a difference for their planet.
Jefferson Land Trust
Jefferson Land Trust is a 1% for the Planet nature nonprofit partner associated with food systems. Based in Port Townsend, WA, United States of America, it is includ...
Landesa
Landesa champions and works to secure land rights for millions of the world’s poorest, mostly rural women and men, to provide opportunity and promote social justice.
Long Live the Kings
OUR MISSION IS TO RESTORE WILD SALMON AND STEELHEAD & SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE FISHING IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
MakeSoil
MakeSoil matches ‘Soil Makers’ (people who compost) with nearby ‘Soil Supporters’ (people who contribute scraps) to keep organic waste out of landfills.
Mangrove Action Project
Mangrove Action Project (MAP) is a US-based nonprofit which collaborates with individuals and organizations to preserve, conserve, and restore the world’s mangrove ...
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
We are an international non-profit organisation on a mission to stop overfishing, and keep oceans teeming with life.
Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group
Connecting with communities through stewardship so that Puget Sound Salmon and people can thrive.
Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
The Mountains to Sound Greenway encompasses connected open spaces, trails and other outdoor recreation sites, working farm and forests, and historic places and town...
Na'ah Illahee Fund
Na’ah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous women-led organization dedicated to the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest.
Nia Tero
Our vision is of an Earth where humanity lives in reciprocity with all beings and in solidarity with Indigenous guardianship. Indigenous peoples sustain many o...