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Accruals
Immediate Source of Acquisition
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Preferred Citation
Processing Information
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Scope and Contents
Separated Materials
Conditions Governing Use
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.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Accruals
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.
Organizational History
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item],
Earth
Island
Institute records, BANC MSS 2009/129, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Processing Information
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Separated Materials
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?]
Conditions Governing Use
Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction
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
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html
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