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Gulf Islands National Seashore
Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending the Gulf Islands?

3 groups on the record for it

National park in Mississippi / Florida, 138,307 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1971.

The groups

Who’s in the fight for the Gulf Islands

Every group here is listed for a sourced fact, and each fact opens its source. Give directly; no gift routes through this site.

Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on the Gulf Islands. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.

The situation

What’s happening to Gulf Islands

Barrier islands stretching from Mississippi to Florida, over 80 percent open water, visited by more than seven million people a year. Home waters for the Rice’s whale, the only whale species found nowhere else on Earth, with approximately 50 individuals left. The God Squad’s March 31 vote to exempt all Gulf oil and gas operations from ESA compliance means new drilling can proceed without accounting for vessel strikes, acoustic disturbance, or oil spills in the only habitat this species has.

  1. 1971Established as national seashore
  2. 2026Endangered Species Committee exempts Gulf drilling from ESANPCA · March 31, 2026

No public comment window is open on Gulf Islands right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

Your move

How to stand for the Gulf Islands

GiveGive to National Parks Conservation Association

Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.

Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Gulf Islands, plus any comment window as it opens.

Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the map

Every threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.

Threatened Lands Map

Build my lineup around Gulf Islands: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

Gulf Islands has defenders. It needs more.

3 more in the fight, National Parks Conservation Association with 217 staff + 900 volunteers. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.

Give to the association ↗Every place, state and species
Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Gulf Islands, with per-item sources. Group crews and program ratios: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, latest filed year, EINs on each group’s profile. Which groups are listed for this place: a group is listed only under a sourced fact, and each chip opens its source. Local means headquartered in the state (the group’s own site, else the legal domicile on its 990) or the place named in its mission on its latest 990. In the fight means a case over the place naming it (the court docket), its own comment on a decision about the place (regulations.gov), an editors’ link with its source or its own page approved by a person here, or events on its own calendar held at the place. No fact, no listing. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-09-28. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.