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Earth Island Institute Records
BANC MSS 2009/129
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Earth Island Institute records, 1940-2012
creator:
Earth Island Institute
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2009/129
Physical Description:
30.95 linear feet
(23 cartons, 1 box, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1940-2012
Date (bulk): 1982-2004
Abstract: This collection contains the records of Earth Island Institute, a Berkeley, California based not for profit environmental
group founded in 1982 by David R. Brower. The collection primarily documents the organizational and administrative history
of Earth Island Institute and two of its major projects supported through the International Marine Mammal Project campaigns:
the Dolphin and Whale Project (including the Dolphin-Safe Tuna Campaign) and the Free Willy Keiko Foundation. Limited records
on other Earth Island Institute projects is included in the collection, mainly the Brower Fund, Glen Canyon Institute, Restore
Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite projects. Additionally, documentation is included on the group's participation in the World Trade
Organization (W.T.O.) protests in Seattle, Washington in 1999.
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
Future additions are expected.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Earth Island Institute Records were given to the Bancroft Library by the Earth Island Institute's executive directors,
John Knox and David Phillips, in 2009 and 2011.
Based in Berkeley, California, Earth Island Institute is an international nonprofit conservation group established by noted
environmentalist David R. Brower. The organization serves as an incubator supporting numerous ecological and social justice
projects working to conserve, protect and restore the environment. Earth Island Institute was founded in 1982, opened their
first office in San Francisco in 1986, and has fostered hundreds of local and internationally focused environmental projects
including Baikal Watch, Bay Area Wilderness Training, Borneo Project, the Brower Fund, International Marine Mammal Project,
Restore Hetch Hetchy, Sacred Land Film Project, the Sea Turtle Restoration Project and Transportation Involves Everyone (T.I.E.).
The roster of Earth Island Institute projects changes from year to year as some projects are completed, added or otherwise
evolve. Brower served as Chairman of the Board of Directors from its founding until his death in 2000. John Knox and David
Phillips served in leadership roles as Co-Executive Directors over the time period that these records span. Phillips also
serves as director of the International Marine Mammal Project, worked extensively to pass dolphin conservation legislation
and helped to establish and lead the Free Willy Keiko Foundation, along with Mark Berman. Berman served as Director to International
Marine Mammal Project's Dolphin-Safe Tuna Monitoring Program during much of the period these materials cover, campaigned against
the practice of animal captivity in theme parks and was the force behind passing much of the early dolphin protection legislation
and campaigns against dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan.
The International Marine Mammal Project is a Berkeley, California based program of the Earth Island Institute founded in 1982.
The International Marine Mammal Project directs a number of campaigns to halt the practice of dolphin and whale captures and
killings and to free marine mammals held in captivity in aquariums, theme parks and other facilties around the world. In the
late 1980s, the International Marine Mammal Project launched an immensely successful campaign to place pressure on the commercial
tuna fishing industry to cease the practice of purse seine net (drift net) tuna fishing because of the extremely high instances
of dolphin mortality associated with that type of fishing. The Free Willy Keiko Foundation, founded in 1994, is one of the
largest and most well-known programs of the International Marine Mammal Project. It was established for the purpose of arranging
the rehabilitation and release of Keiko, the orca "killer whale" used in the making of the "Free Willy" film produced by Warner
Bros.
[Identification of item], Earth Island Institute records, BANC MSS 2009/129, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Arranged to the folder level.
Processed by Lisa Marie Monhoff in 2018 as part of a two-year NHPRC-funded project to process a range of archival collections
relating to environmental movements in the West.
This collection contains the records of Earth Island Institute, a Berkeley, California based not for profit environmental
group founded in 1982 by David R. Brower. The collection primarily documents the organizational and administrative history
of Earth Island Institute and two of its major projects supported through the International Marine Mammal Project campaigns:
the Dolphin and Whale Project (including the Dolphin-Safe Tuna Campaign) and the Free Willy Keiko Foundation. Limited records
on other Earth Island Institute projects is included in the collection, mainly the Brower Fund, Glen Canyon Institute, Restore
Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite projects. Additionally, documentation is included on the group's participation in the World Trade
Organization (W.T.O.) protests in Seattle, Washington in 1999. Materials include correspondence, board of directors documents,
financial, development and grant materials, legislative documentation, contracts and agreements, press releases and media
kits, photographs, news articles, magazines, and clippings. Mostly in English with some materials in Spanish, Icelandic, Norwegian
and Japanese languages. Researchers should note that occassionally, (likely for environmental re-use purposes), documents
were printed onto the verso of reused paper and therefore verso contents may be unrelated to the front side of the documents.
Digital materials separated to Digital Collections Unit of The Bancroft Library: CD audiodisc "Keiko's Dream: Live in Concert"
by Theresa Demarest & Good Company (1999; CD-R "Dolphin Safe Presentation, December 2002, Canada"; CD-R [untitled]; DVD "Keiko
Memorial" (2004); 3.5" Floppy disks = 7 [graphics files for Earth Island, Free Willy Kekiko Foundation?]
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of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond
that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Earth Island Institute
International Marine Mammal Project
Free Willy Keiko Foundation
Phillips, David
Berman, Mark
Dolphins
Tuna fisheries -- Bycatches
Killer whale
Environmentalism -- United States
Environmental protection--United States