Defend oceans
We are totally dependent on our oceans. But, we're damaging them on a scale unimaginable to most people. Destructive fishing, polluting industries and climate change are threatening the survival of whole marine ecosystems, as species are driven towards extinction as their habitats are destroyed.
Campaign updates
Video: How Europe’s plunder of West African waters is affecting local communities
This week as our crew on the
Arctic Sunrise highlights
the mass plundering taking place at sea by European super trawlers in West
Africa; our team on land in...
New Antarctic Ocean Alliance to blaze trail for marine reserves
According to some people, 2012 is supposed to be a year of
transformative events. Well I don’t know about astronomical alignments,
the Mayan calendar and all...
Arctic Sunrise captures EU trawlers plundering West African seas
Our ship, the
Arctic Sunrise is currently in Mauritanian waters, to highlight the problems of
overfishing emptying African seas. Vast factory-style fishing...
Scandalous sentences for Scottish skippers
Organised crime
seems to pay quite handsomely, especially if you manage to be part of a
profession that seems to be beyond reproach. That can surely be the...
Common sense discarded
In the same way that discarding
perfecting good fish, dead or dying back into sea is a disgrace, so is the
attitude of many European fisheries ministers...
