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Deep Sea mining: NOC Report, IUCN briefing, The Lords and Greenpeace highlight the fast developing threats

IUCN Briefing on Deep Sea Mining https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/deep-sea-mining The National Oceanography Centre has produced a report outlining the impacts of deep sea mining Eco-Magazine ‘A new study shows that the impacts of seabed mining on deep-sea ecosystems can persist for decades. Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) revisited a site exposed to simulated deep-sea mining […]

Outreach – Great short videos looking at how marine life support systems – Greenpeace

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Greenpeace – Unearthed life support videos – two links below – these are succinct and to the point (4.5mins each) and convey key ideas on how living marine systems provide us with life support. Greenpeace: We started our Life Support series with a stark message from one of the world’s leading scientists: the destruction of […]

“Stop eating fish” … to help save the marine environment … George Monbiot

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“Stop eating fish” George Monbiot (Guardian) …. ‘This means that the first duty of a journalist is to cover neglected issues. So I want to direct you to the 70% of the planet that was sidelined even in the sparse coverage of the new report: the seas. Here, life is collapsing even faster than on […]

Ownership of UK fisheries – further insights from Greenpeace

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How the UK turned fishing rights into a commodity Greenpeace: Fleetwood was once a major fishing hub in the UK its docks were a major employer. But no trawlers sail out of the town’s port anymore. How did this happen? As Crispin Dowler discovered, while the decline of the British fishing sector drove coastal support […]

Nearly half of England’s most important wildlife sites are not being monitored

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Greenpeace: The government is failing to monitor almost half of England’s “most important wildlife sites”, putting them at risk of fly tipping, pollution, water contamination, invasive species, and the unchecked impacts of a changing climate. Of the 4,126 sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) currently in existence, 47% have not been examined in the last […]

Lord Peter Melchett – obituary – a huge loss

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Bob Earll. ‘In the late 1970s a friend, David Erwin, who was working on the idea of a marine reserve for Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland told me about a visit he’d had from a London minister – Peter Melchett – a keen diver who was really supportive that this idea should go ahead. At […]

High Seas biodiversity – Major UN Conference seeks to take protection forward

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Guardian Robin McKie ‘Wildlife in most of the lawless high seas faces an existential threat from fishing, shipping and the military. Next month, a landmark UN conference could finally bring hope. “Outside national waters, in the high seas, it is essentially a no man’s land when it comes to protecting sensitive environments and their inhabitants,” […]

Antarctic Krill MPA makes progress

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Earlier this year Javier Bardem, an Antarctic Ambassador with Greenpeace, dived in a two-person submarine to the seabed of the Antarctic Ocean. On July 10, he met Environment Secretary Michael Gove and joined a panel discussion at Greenpeace’s immersive Antarctic 360° geo-dome to discuss the global campaign to create a 1.8 million square kilometre Antarctic […]