Job Description:
The mission of the Environment Program is to promote policies and practices that protect the global atmosphere, preserve healthy forests and marine ecosystems. For the past two decades, the Environment Group of The Pew Charitable Trusts has been a major force in driving conservation policy in the United States, and increasingly internationally. The group’s work is focused on reducing the scope and severity of three major global environmental problems:
* Dramatic changes to the Earth’s climate brought about by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the planet’s atmosphere;
* The erosion of large wilderness ecosystems that contain a great part of the world’s remaining biodiversity; and
* The destruction of the world’s marine environment, with a particular emphasis on global fisheries.
The Environment Group’s Marine Program
For over a decade, the Pew Charitable Trusts has played a major leadership role in successfully promoting policies, both in the United States and abroad, that protect the ocean environment and the life it contains. We have been instrumental in bringing about many of the major improvements in fisheries management and marine conservation that have occurred in the United States since the mid 1990’s.
These accomplishments include passage of the strongest conservation measures ever enacted by Congress to protect the nation’s marine fisheries; issuance of court ordered restrictions on destructive fishing practices in millions of square miles of federal waters; creation of the world’s largest marine reserve in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands; passage of the strongest restrictions ever enacted into law to protect sharks in U.S. waters; and internationally, adoption of severe restrictions on the use of highly destructive bottom trawls in approximately one-quarter of the world’s high seas.
In addition, we have sponsored a large number of groundbreaking research studies published in recent years that have fundamentally changed the way in which the scientific community, the public, policymakers and the media think about the world’s marine environment.
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