By becoming a Baykeeper, you are helping Coastal Alabama become a better, healthier, and safer place to live. You are part of a movement that is growing stronger every day. The more Baykeepers we have in our coastal communities, the better defended our natural resources will be.
At Baykeeper, we are focused on water quality and its effect on our lives. If our communities unite over what makes Coastal Alabama special — our waters — we can achieve a better tomorrow.
We’ll know we are successful when no one has to question whether the fish are safe to eat or the water is safe to swim in, when our seagrasses and oyster reefs recover, and our coastal communities take responsibility for the health of the water.
No one should have to fear eating the fish of Coastal Alabama. Baykeeper will prevent heavy metals and chemicals from reaching our waterways. Through monitoring, government/ agency review, and influencing decision-makers, Baykeeper commits to lowering the chemical and heavy-metal pollution in our waters.
Our children should be able to swim in the waterways of Coastal Alabama without fear of disease or carcinogenic exposure. Baykeeper will track, mitigate, and reduce the impacts of sewage spills and stormwater runoff in our watershed. We will reduce the amount of fecal matter, fertilizers, and other contaminants entering our waterways and swimming spots after rainstorms.
Seagrasses should be more present in our watershed as they are the foundation of our coastal ecosystem. Baykeeper will restore our lost seagrasses and fight the pollution that has affected them so greatly in the past. Seagrass not only provides food and shelter for redfish, crabs, shrimp, and tarpon, it also provides ecosystem benefits such as sediment stabilization, nutrient filtration, and carbon dioxide absorption.
Oysters should be more present in our watershed as they are a natural solution to myriad water quality issues and provide critical ecosystem infrastructure in our Bay. Baykeeper will revive our oyster populations to improve water quality throughout the Bay and will stop the destruction of the few oyster reefs that currently exist.
April is Mobile Baykeeper member drive month. Our goal is to see 50 new members and 50 members to renew in the month of April. We hope that you’ll share our work with friends and family or make a donation in their honor.
By becoming a member or renewing your membership with a minimum $50 tax-deductible annual gift in April, you will enjoy more benefits by receiving a year’s worth of CURRENTS magazine, our quarterly publication telling the stories of the Delta, Bay, and Gulf, plus FREE entry and plates at the Spring Member Drive Crawfish Boil, Saturday, April 20, from 4pm-6pm at Braided River in Downtown Mobile.
If you’d like to avoid processing fees that come from donating online, please mail a check to 450C Government St, Mobile, AL 36602
“We have a responsibility to ourselves and to future generations to defend and revive the health of our waters. I am encouraged by the progress we’ve made and by the fact that we inspire more people every day to appreciate these natural gifts.” – George Talbot, Baykeeper Member
“Water is one of our most important natural resources and it’s important to me to protect that resource for future generations.” – Lyndsey Dixon, Baykeeper Member
“As a person who has grown up enjoying life on Mobile Bay and the surrounding waterways, the BP oil spill woke me up to the fragility of their existence. I have respected the work Baykeeper has done fighting to protect clean water and our quality of life for decades and the current coal ash issue inspired me to get more actively involved with the organization.” – Jeremy Milling, Baykeeper Member
