This Holiday Season “Adopt-a-Creature” with Oceana and Help Save the Oceans

Oct. 26, 2009 - PRLog -- ***High Resolution Images and Sample Fulfillment Packages Available***

Washington, DC – Today, Oceana announced the official launch of its fourth annual “Adopt a Creature” holiday giving program. All the proceeds from the program go toward Oceana and its global efforts to prevent the collapse of marine ecosystems.

As part of the 2009 adoption center, Oceana is honoring 12-year-old sea turtle activist Casey Sokolovic with a limited edition sea turtle adoption kit, in addition to the 10 marine creatures that are available for symbolic adoption.

A Greenville, NC resident, Casey was a finalist for Oceana’s 2009 “Ocean Heroes” award (www.oceana.org/heroes). At age nine, Casey became an environmental steward and role model for others her age when she began a sea turtle conservation campaign called L.A.S.T. – Love A Sea Turtle. She has raised over $3,000 for a North Carolina-based sea turtle rehabilitation hospital, in part by selling sea turtle-shaped sugar cookies.

Included in the new kit will be a 22-inch sea turtle plush toy, a sea turtle cookie cutter, an Oceana oven mitt, a special sugar cookie recipe from Washington-based bakery CakeLove, a framed personalized adoption certificate and a sea turtle fact card with a special note from Casey.

“It is so exciting to help Oceana protect turtles,” said Sokolovic. “Sea turtles are in a lot of trouble. They are in danger of disappearing and that is sad because they are so important to the oceans.”

Along with the limited edition “Casey Kit,” Oceana again offers supporters the chance to adopt a dolphin, octopus, penguin, polar bear, sea turtle or shark and receive a cookie cutter and the chance to adopt a dolphin, hammerhead shark, killer whale or seal and receive a plush toy. Those who adopt can also personalize their adoption certificates for the marine creatures, frame the certificates and have their kits gift-wrapped for loved ones.  

“Casey's accomplishments are an inspiration and she is the perfect example of an individual doing their part to protect the oceans,” said Oceana’s Director of E-Activism and Marketing Maureen McGregor. “Adopting a sea creature is another way to do something on behalf of ocean conservation and I hope it also inspires people to take more action, like Casey does.”

All marine creatures available for adoption can be viewed at Oceana’s online adoption center, where donors can make adoptions year round: www.oceana.org/adopt. Donation levels for the program range from $35 to $200. For more details on Oceana’s “Adopt a Creature” holiday program, including available high-resolution images, visit: www.oceana.org/adopt.

For more information about Oceana’s mission to protect the world’s oceans, visit www.oceana.org/support.

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Oceana campaigns to protect and restore the world’s oceans. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in scope and dedicated to conservation, Oceana has campaigners based in North America, Europe and South and Central America. More than 300,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined Oceana. For more information, please visit www.Oceana.org.