Westarctica

Founded in 2001, Westarctica is a non-governmental organisation based in United States working on environment & climate, nature & wildlife conservation, animal welfare +1 more.

Westarctica is a United States non-profit organisation founded in 2001 and incorporated as a public benefit corporation in 2014. It works as a global voice for Western Antarctica, aiming to protect the plants and animals within its land and seas and to monitor and conserve the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Its work includes planning research expeditions to document ice shelves and glaciers along the Amundsen Sea coast, campaigning against whaling in the Southern Ocean, offering research fellowships on climate change, and planning an Antarctic Science Discovery Center in a major United States city to educate the public about environmental crises in Western Antarctica. The organisation joined the UN DESA NGO Branch in 2015 as a non-consultative member, was granted tax-exempt status by the IRS as a 501 charitable organisation in 2018, and publishes an annual financial report alongside its IRS Form 990.