Serge Dedina

Who is Serge Dedina?

Serge Dedina is the author of Wild Sea: Eco-Wars and Surf Stories from the Coast of the California and Saving the Gray Whale and a conservationist from Imperial Beach, California. He is currently a candidate for Mayor of Imperial Beach, California, for the November 2014 election. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of WiLDCOAST/COSTASALVAjE, an international organization that conserves coastal and marine ecosystems and wildlife. He is the former founding director of The Nature Conservancy’s Baja California and Sea of Cortez Program. Dedina was instrumental in the development of two national parks along Baja’s Sea of Cortez coastline and a research and educational center in Magdalena Bay. He also initiated an international campaign that successfully stopped the Mitsubishi Corporation from destroying San Ignacio Lagoon—the world’s last undeveloped gray whale lagoon. Saving the Gray Whale, is based on the three years he lived in the gray whale lagoons of Baja California.