Gallifrey Foundation

📢 We're #hiring! 🌊 Gallifrey is an independent ocean conservation not-for-profit that works collaboratively to address several topics such as, but not limited to, shark protection, deep seabed mining, plastic pollution and chemicals, overfishing, ocean litigation, gender equality in climate change issues, ecocide. 📲 We are seeking an ocean-literate social media nerd intern to assist our small team. Main tasks will be to regularly feed the Instagram and Threads accounts as a priority, Facebook account secondly, as per our communications strategy. TikTok and YouTube will be developed at some point. We have left X/Twitter; the intern will not be in charge of LinkedIn. ✅ Requirements: - Experience in social media posting and working with Canva (or other design tool) - Genuine interest in, or knowledge of, marine conservation topics, and/or pursuing studies in the field of, e.g., marine biology, sustainability, environment, or related topics - Excellent English and grammar skills, C1 minimum - Creativity and sense of aesthetics/branding - Autonomy: work will be done remotely, with occasional team meetings online - We like to work with people who have a sense of humour. Gallifrey is an organisation that promotes equal opportunities in the Global South, and so we encourage applications from the African continent. 📝 Please send your CV by 11 September 2024 latest to laurianne@gallifrey.foundation. Please note that only selected applicants will be contacted. Starting date: 1st October or sooner if available. Thank you and please feel free to share! ©️ The Life of Sharks / Christian Talbot / Sophie Hodge #Job #Internship #SocialMedia #Ocean #OceanProtection #MarineConservation #EqualOpportunities

Reduction Targets now! Tell your government to prioritize people and the planet over profit! Sign the #PlasticsTreaty petition to demand world leaders to deliver a strong and ambitious Plastics Treaty. 👉https://lnkd.in/geBEuWXE #BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution #ProductionReduction Break Free From Plastic

As the Intersessional Work meetings will unfold this weekend in Bangkok and as a foretaste before #INC5, let's have a look at the behind the scenes. Working groups will be addressing financial mechanisms and means of implementation, and plastic products and chemical of concern. Civil Society Organisations have been denied access to these crucial discussions (it is to note this month's meetings are not negotiations like during the INC rounds), despite several Member States voicing that Observers should be invited to take part. Instead, each working group can include 12 "experts" only. Including some industry people with vested interests, who are also part of national delegations. The very few spots that CSO representatives managed to get were a tough fight. There is a clear unbalance here. The INC Secretariat always said the Observers' presence and expertise were crucial to the success of the Global Plastics Treaty. And yet, for the expert meetings this expertise is ignored. Thank you Jennifer G. McDermott from The Associated Press for covering this. https://lnkd.in/gK5XiKBc #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #PlasticsTreaty #Transparency #BreakFreeFromPlastic Andres Del Castillo - IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network) - Break Free From Plastic - Vito A. Buonsante - Frankie Orona

🏃♀️ Missing your daily sports rush, now that the #Paris2024 Olympics are over and before the Paralympic Games start? Here's another race you should watch because it concerns all of us: that - crucial - to the #PlasticsTreaty #INC5 this November. 🥵 And trust us, IRL negotiations look more like a marathon with hurdles than a sprint. Help us overcome them by demanding a #StrongTreatyNow to your policy makers. Thank you Greenpeace International for this video! https://lnkd.in/epbp9BSp #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #BreakFreeFromPlastic #BridgeToBusan

🎙️ A (ré)écouter, l'interview dans #ForumRTS d'Antoinette Vermilye (she/her), co-fondatrice de Gallifrey, sur l'importance de ne PAS exploiter les fonds marins pour la recherche de #minerais. Pour des raisons évidemment environnementales, mais aussi économiques. 💰 Et la transition énergétique n'en souffrira pas pour autant. Un grand merci à Katja Schaer de la RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse de nous avoir invitée pour parler de ce sujet hautement sensible, assez peu médiatisé, et aux enjeux pourtant énormes. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eSkR95W2 #DeepSeabedMining #FondsMarins #DefendTheDeep #Océan #TransitionEnergétique.

TIME TO RECONSIDER We have to really really really really change and challenge our preconceptions Status quo, keeping quiet, business as usual is NOT cutting it. Chaos theory is playing out as we ignore the frayed edges of society. Doing nothing about it doesn’t mean it goes away. A hard day with strong suggestions for actions by the inimitable Animah Kosai

🚨 LAST CALL TO ALL ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS, WORLDWIDE 🐺 🦫 Today is the last day you can contribute to protecting #wildlife in #Switzerland with regards to the revised law on hunting. Not only are wolves targeted, but also beavers and ibex, and potentially bears, lynx, otters, jackals and golden eagles later on. ⚖️ Despite being supposedly protected by national and international law, and AGAINST the people's will by referendum that took place in 2020, all these could be decimated. 📝 How can you help? Add the name of the organisation you represent at the bottom of this joint letter/scientific report: https://lnkd.in/eWycYx8n No matter where you are located or whether you're specialised in a specific environmental topic: each signature counts. 🙏 Huge thanks to the 65 NGOs who have already signed! You're a citizen and want to act? Details in comments. #NGO #Environment #Biodiversity #Nature #Wolf #Wolves #Lynx #Ibex #Otter #Beaver #Eagle #Bear #Jackal #Swisstainable #Hunting #MySwitzerlandHasWildlife #SwissWildlife

🙏 THANK YOU to all of you who took action against the European shark fin trade! 🇪🇺🦈 Sharks are on the agenda of the European Union. However, we must keep the citizen and scientific pressure so the ban remains on it: indeed, the recent EU elections with the far right - not exactly environment-friendly people - gaining ground could jeopardise the process. Make sure the EU hears we want a #FinBanNow! ✅We are confident that the outcome of the current impact assessment for a #FinBanNow will prove that there is no alternative to a legally binding trade ban! It is now up to the European Commission and European Parliament to decide whether Europe remains part of the problem or becomes part of the solution, and not to listen to the untruthful arguments of the (over)fishing lobbies. 👉🇪🇺 Stay tuned! 👉🦈 And mark you calendar: 14 July is Shark Awareness Day! StopFinningEU e.V. - Antoinette Vermilye (she/her) - John Vermilye #StopFinningEU #SaveSharks #Sharks #Shark #StopFinning #StopTheTrade #SaveTheOcean #Ocean #SharkLovers #SharkFinBan #SharkConservation #BanTradeFinNow #SharkAwarenessDay #EuropeanCommission #EU #EuropeanUnion #Fishing #Overfishing

Today is Plastic Bag Free Day! We are so used to using #plastic bags to carry things around that we have taken it for granted. But we should start paying attention to how and how often we use them… and start using alternatives – because our environment can’t take more of it. Plastic bags start out as #FossilFuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the #ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags: they look the same, and often also smell the same because of aggregated microorganisms on the bags. Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to bigger fish and marine mammals - and to us, eventually. Indeed, #microplastics are present in the food we eat and in the air we breathe. What can you do?  - Cut down on the use of #PlasticBags. Ideally, refuse them each time and carry a foldable, reusable bag all the time with you: they fit in your pocket! - Use proper (= sturdy) reusable bags in all situations.  - Those plastic bags you already have: Reuse them as much as possible and when they become waste take them to a municipal recycling facility to ensure they are well disposed avoiding them to degrade in our environment - Educate others on the adverse effects plastic bags have on the environment. - Encourage your community to reduce its dependance on plastic bags. If we can do it on this one date, then we can do it for the rest of the year, right? 💪 #PlasticBagFreeDay

Attention: #INC Secretariat, Observers play a critical role in the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations. We urge you to ensure their participation in the intersessional work. Transparent and inclusive processes will lead to a Plastics Treaty that truly addresses #PlasticPollution. Over 130 Civil Society Organisations, including the Gallifrey Foundation, sent an open letter to raise their concerns to Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, with cc to Luis Vayas Valdivieso, Juliet Kabera, Ndiaye Cheikh Sylla, Hiroshi Ono, Mohammad Al-Khashashneh, Harry Liiv, Irma Gurguliani, Gustavo Meza-Cuadra Velasquez, Asha Challenger, Johanna Lissinger Peitz, Larke Williams Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eJnbbHAV #BreakFreeFromPlastic