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Despite their designation, many Marine Protected Areas remain vulnerable to the devastating effects of bottom trawling. This practice not only disrupts fragile marine species but directly harms entire ecosystems. 🚢 Trawlers regularly breach the boundaries of MPAs, leaving destruction in their wake. 🎣 Over 90% of discarded fish in EU waters result from bottom trawling, including accidental catches like turtles, sharks, and marine mammals. 🛂 MPAs are hard to manage and police, making real change a challenge. Paper parks won't save our seas. It’s time to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas. Your voice can drive change. Sign the appeal below to demand action and help us ensure that protection truly means protected. Let’s work together for the ocean, for our planet, and for future generations. Please urge the EU Commission to Ban Destructive Fishing in Protected Waters: https://lnkd.in/eeTtQHj2 Oceana in Europe North Sails #BanBottomTrawling #LookDeeper #WorldOceansDay

Despite their designation, many Marine Protected Areas remain vulnerable to the devastating effects of bottom trawling. This practice not only disrupts fragile marine species but directly harms entire ecosystems. 🚢 Trawlers regularly breach the boundaries of MPAs, leaving destruction in their wake. 🎣 Over 90% of discarded fish in EU waters result from bottom trawling, including accidental catches like turtles, sharks, and marine mammals. 🛂 MPAs are hard to manage and police, making real change a challenge. Paper parks won't save our seas. It’s time to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas. Your voice can drive change. Sign the appeal below to demand action and help us ensure that protection truly means protected. Let’s work together for the ocean, for our planet, and for future generations. Please urge the EU Commission to Ban Destructive Fishing in Protected Waters: https://lnkd.in/eeTtQHj2 Oceana in Europe North Sails #BanBottomTrawling #LookDeeper #WorldOceansDay

Despite their designation, many Marine Protected Areas remain vulnerable to the devastating effects of bottom trawling. This practice not only disrupts fragile marine species but directly harms entire ecosystems. 🚢 Trawlers regularly breach the boundaries of MPAs, leaving destruction in their wake. 🎣 Over 90% of discarded fish in EU waters result from bottom trawling, including accidental catches like turtles, sharks, and marine mammals. 🛂 MPAs are hard to manage and police, making real change a challenge. Paper parks won't save our seas. It’s time to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas. Your voice can drive change. Sign the appeal below to demand action and help us ensure that protection truly means protected. Let’s work together for the ocean, for our planet, and for future generations. Please urge the EU Commission to Ban Destructive Fishing in Protected Waters: https://lnkd.in/eeTtQHj2 Oceana in Europe North Sails #BanBottomTrawling #LookDeeper #WorldOceansDay

Here is something 100% worth your time! 'Only a few days left for public comment; comment period closes Jun 24, 2024 11:59 PM Mountain Time. Public comment has stopped similar projects in the past. 1. Click the link in Nat Hab's post below. 2. Here are important points to make: * Request that the NPS reject the proposed easements for the Johnson Tract * Ask that in-depth environmental and wildlife impact assessments be conducted prior to any continued permitting. * Insist that the resource analyses evaluate and address how the proposed easements will impact: ** Critical bear denning habitat (based on recent collared-bear research in the area—see the map below that illustrates the movement of collared bears in the area in and around the Johnson Tract and proposed easements) **Vital bear feeding and mating habitat on and near the coast **Essential travel corridors for bears and other wildlife * Request that any eastern easements proposed for the Johnson River Valley be prevented due to irreversible impacts to pristine wetlands.

Despite their designation, many Marine Protected Areas remain vulnerable to the devastating effects of bottom trawling. This practice not only disrupts fragile marine species but directly harms entire ecosystems. 🚢 Trawlers regularly breach the boundaries of MPAs, leaving destruction in their wake. 🎣 Over 90% of discarded fish in EU waters result from bottom trawling, including accidental catches like turtles, sharks, and marine mammals. 🛂 MPAs are hard to manage and police, making real change a challenge. Paper parks won't save our seas. It’s time to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas. Your voice can drive change. Sign the appeal below to demand action and help us ensure that protection truly means protected. Let’s work together for the ocean, for our planet, and for future generations. Please urge the EU Commission to Ban Destructive Fishing in Protected Waters: https://lnkd.in/eeTtQHj2 Oceana in Europe North Sails #BanBottomTrawling #LookDeeper #WorldOceansDay

Protecting our wetlands (preferred habitats of waterbirds) also means protecting the species that depend on them. Diversity of waterbird species at Pelican Point, Ndian Basin, South West-Cameroon.

Public support BAN of destructive fishing method in marine sanctuaries. Hugo Tagholm, executive director of Oceana UK, said: “The strength of feeling across the UK public is clear: destructive bottom trawling has no place in our marine ‘protected’ areas. “Whether we live by the coast or in a city, we are united against the bulldozing of our marine havens. “The UK is an ocean nation and our waters have provided prosperity, food, a stable climate and a deep connection to nature for millennia.” “As a nation, we must honour our commitment to protect and restore 30% of our seas by 2030. “The absolute minimum we can do is give real protection to our so-called protected areas. ” UK offshore MPAs were subjected to more than 33,000 hours of suspected bottom trawling in 2023, according to an analysis of satellite tracks by Oceana UK published earlier this year – equivalent to nearly four years of continuous trawling. https://lnkd.in/ebsa493d Oceana Greenpeace UK Open Seas Blue Marine Foundation Charles Clover Jacqueline Savitz Kathryn Matthews

Protecting Great Barrier Reef turtles 🐢🌊 The Australian and Queensland Government's are investing a further $2.8 million to help protect threatened turtle species in the #GreatBarrierReef through the Nest to Ocean Turtle Protection Program. This funding will enhance existing programs and support innovative ideas to support nesting success. In total, it is estimated that approximately 2.5 million hatchlings have been protected since the inception of the program. Since 2014, the Australian and Queensland government have invested over $9.5 million to support the program. Learn more: https://brnw.ch/21wD2IU 📸 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

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