RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE

Protecting marine biodiversity: campaign to eliminate avoidable bycatch.our goal is to better protect and preserve the uniquely rich and diverse sea life in california's offshore waters. California's 2018 marine life management act master plan identifies commercial fisheries using set gillnet and trawl gear as "most in need of management attention due to their high bycatch rates" up to two-thirds of a typical catch are non-targeted species. In addition, the state has confirmed high levels of whale entanglements by dungeness crab pot gear. In spite of these initiatives, indiscriminate gear types continue to destroy marine wildlife. Our aim is to facilitate the transition to modern fishing methods that reduce bycatch rates.

Instream water transfers program.in 2023, after 26 years of effort, rri succeeded in proving that legally securing instream water rights for wildlife could revolutionize water conservation and wildlife habitat protections. The state of california, rri, and friends of butte creek partnered in a first-of-its-kind sale and proof of concept of rri's butte creek water rights. With butte creek as a precedent, we look forward to collaborating with water rights experts to create guidelines others can follow. Our vision is that one day, water trusts will become as common as land trusts.defense of place (dop).huey johnson founded defense of place as "a small, nimble watchdog organization" to defend public lands whose protective deeds and statutes are breached by for-profit corporations, government entities, and other institutions. Since 1997, defense of place has joined citizen activists from maryland to california to protect threatened parks, nature preserves, wildlife refuges, open spaces, and conservation easements from sale, development, and predatory changes in use. Fiscal sponsees - advocacy expenses resource renewal institute acts a s fiscal sponsor for several local groups (the "sponsoees"). As resource renewal institute retains ultimate variance power over these contributions, amounts received on behalf of the sponsees are treated as contributions with donor restrictions to rri and expenses paid on behalf of the group are treated as expenses of rri.