WILDCOAST operates its headquarters out of 2010 Jimmy Durante Blvd, Suite 230, Del Mar, CA 92014, placing the international ocean conservation nonprofit directly across the street from several of its active restoration sites along the San Dieguito Lagoon. Co-founded in 2000 by Executive Director Dr. Serge Dedina and Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, the organization has grown into a 28-person team that has helped conserve more than 38 million acres of coastlines, marine habitat, sea turtle nesting beaches, gray whale breeding lagoons, mangrove forests, islands, and coral reefs across California and Mexico. Charity Navigator gives WILDCOAST a perfect 100 percent score and four-star rating. The nonprofit earned the 2019 Keeling Curve Prize — named for Scripps Oceanography scientist and longtime Del Mar resident David Keeling — for its innovative blue carbon work measuring and preserving carbon stored in coastal wetlands. WILDCOAST currently helps manage more than 500,000 acres of marine protected areas along the California coast and has installed trash booms in the Tijuana River watershed that intercept over 80,000 pounds of debris annually before it reaches the Pacific Ocean. The organization's Mexican division, Costasalvaje A.C. in Ensenada, oversees Latin American conservation programs including the preservation of more than 39,000 acres of mangrove forest in Northwest Mexico. Media coverage has reached The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC News, NPR, and NBC Nightly News. Just down the boulevard, Del Mar Public Works at 2240 Jimmy Durante Blvd partners with the community on infrastructure and beach maintenance that complements WILDCOAST's coastal preservation goals. Fellow Del Mar conservation organization Nature and Culture International on Maiden Lane focuses its ecosystem protection efforts on Latin America, making Del Mar an unusually dense hub for international environmental work. WILDCOAST is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and actively recruits volunteers for wetland restoration, invasive plant removal, and tidepool education events.