Restore Chinook salmon and reduce toxics to increase prey for orcas.
Back the slow-but-essential work that increases prey and reduces toxic stress in Puget Sound: habitat restoration, fish-passage barrier work, and enforceable toxics reduction. This strategy focuses on keeping these actions funded, coordinated, and visible so progress accumulates over time.
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Why this works
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Orca Conservancy
Tax-deductibleProtecting Southern Resident killer whales through habitat restoration, toxics reduction, and public engagement.
Mechanism
About MediaHow Orca Conservancy uses funding
- Identify the highest-impact habitat and prey actions aligned to the recovery framework.
- Coordinate partners and agencies to scope projects and secure durable funding.
- Advance toxics reduction through cleanup, safer practices, and enforceable runoff and wastewater controls.
- Track progress and publish updates tied to decision windows so funding and coordination remain durable.
- Adjust priorities as climate stress and land- and water-use conflicts emerge.
Milestones
Checkpoints and the expected timing for each step
- 1
Priority action list + targets set
0–30 daysA prioritized list of habitat, barrier, and toxics actions is set with owners and timelines.
- 2
Next funding + permit window secured
1–3 monthsA near-term set of projects advances through budgeting or permitting decisions.
- 3
Public progress tracker launched
2–4 monthsUpdates tie workstreams to measurable signals and next steps.
- 4
Recovery checkpoint reported
6–12 monthsA checkpoint summary links completed work to threat-area progress and remaining gaps.