Activists on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza have started to place granite blocks on the seabed inside the Dogger Bank protected area in the North Sea to prevent bottom trawling. This follows on from their investigation which found industrial bottom trawlers systematically breaking the law by switching of their Automatic Information System (AIS) while fishing on […]
Latest Greenpeace UK report Bright Blue Seas examines progress with UK offshore MPAs To assess the condition of the UK’s offshore MPA network, Greenpeace UK collated assessments of each offshore MPA’s progress towards conservation targets as listed on the JNCC MPA listings, which hold the most up to date public information on each MPA. Out […]
A Greenpeace investigation has reported that supertrawlers have doubled the time they spend fishing in UK MPAs in the first 6 months of 2020 compared to the whole of 2019. Click here. Last year these vessels, including the four largest supertrawlers in the world, spent 2,963 hours, the equivalent of 123 days fishing in UK […]
This report by Unearthed appeared in February but I missed it; then Covid came along. Lots of links and commentary. Unearthed is an investigative journalism organisation run by Greenpeace. Unearthed: A secret report obtained by Unearthed has revealed serious weaknesses in the Environment Agency’s controls on an industry that spreads millions of tonnes of sewage sludge on […]
Unearthed ‘Leaked documents reveal Environment Agency ‘overwhelmed’ by staffing cuts and surge in pollution incidents. Environment Agency emails describe new system that could scale back pollution response in some areas 07.03.2020 Zach Boren Unearthed Unions have told the EA introducing the new pollution strategy would be ‘unacceptably risky.’ Photo: Jack Perks, Greenpeace The Environment Agency […]
Rebecca Pow has now made two speeches on the Government’s intentions in the marine environment, the first at Coastal Future 2020 and last week at a Greenpeace launch of an animated film. It is ironic that Greenpeace have recently been included on Police anti-terrorist list discovered by the Guardian. In describing 2020 as ‘marine super […]
A landmark Greenpeace report today highlights our reliance on the ocean as Earth’s largest carbon sink. It warns that our changing climate, biodiversity loss and habitat destruction are endangering the processes which underpin the ocean’s ability to sequester and store carbon. This will have ‘far-reaching implications for biodiversity and humankind’. The report, In Hot Water: The […]
Dumped fishing gear is biggest plastic polluter in ocean, finds report Greenpeace calls for global action over nets, lines and traps that are deadly for marine life. Lost and abandoned fishing gear which is deadly to marine life makes up the majority of large plastic pollution in the oceans, according to a report by Greenpeace. More […]