Blogposts tagged 'Marine Reserves'

Marine reserves success story: Cabo Pulmo, Mexico

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 30 August 2011 at 1:30pm - 0 Comments
A sea lion swims near Greenpeace divers with the banner "Marine Reserves Now" in
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A sea lion swims near Greenpeace divers with the banner "Marine Reserves Now" in the Gulf of California

Greenpeace Mexico oceans campaigner Alejandro Olivera, reveals how the thriving 20-year old marine reserve at Cabo Pulmo, which has seen fish increase by 463 per cent in ten years to become the world's most successful, is now under threat from massive local development...

Article tagged as: Cabo Pulmo, Diving, Gulf of California, marine reserves, mexico, oceans, successes

Seas in crisis? Fix the Common Fisheries Policy

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 17 August 2011 at 3:24pm - 1 Comment

Our seas are in peril: more than 70 per cent of Europe's fish stocks are overfished, putting our most popular species at risk if it continues. And the way Europe’s seas and fish are managed allows fleets to take two-to-three times more from our oceans than what scientists consider sustainable.

Article tagged as: CFP, common fisheries policy, fish, fishing, marine reserves, Reform, sustainable fishing, video

Fashion and fish? Selfridges' Project Ocean is a powerful partnership

Posted by Willie - 17 May 2011 at 11:17am - 4 Comments
Prince Charles at the launch of Selfridges' sustainable fishing event Project Oc
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Prince Charles at the launch of Selfridges' sustainable fishing event Project Ocean

Selfridges launched Project Ocean with a bang last week. The legendary department store's front is draped with a giant banner asking ‘No more fish in the sea?.’ Their famed Oxford Street windows are filled with installations on fish issues - grabbing attention and headlines.  And they’ve pulled in a host of celebrity supporters, from Katherine Hamnett to Elle McPherson. But that's just the start of this month long celebration of our seas...

Article tagged as: fish fight, fishing, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, marine reserves, Project Ocean, Selfridges, sustainable fishing

Selfridges launch Project Ocean

Posted by Willie - 11 May 2011 at 5:00pm - 6 Comments
Project Ocean: Selfridges celebrate, fundraise and reach out to save our seas
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Project Ocean: Selfridges celebrate, fundraise and reach out to save our seas

There’s a big splash on Oxford Street today as Selfridges - the world’s best department store, on the busiest shopping street - has been taken over for five weeks to help save our seas with Project Ocean.

Article tagged as: African Voices, events, fish fight, fishing, Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall, marine reserves, oceans, overfishing, Project Ocean, Selfridges, sustainable fishing

Guest blog: Britain's Secret Seas - by Frank Pope

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 6 May 2011 at 4:12pm - 3 Comments
Frank Pope celebrates marine reserves in new BBC series: Britain's Secret Seas
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Frank Pope celebrates marine reserves in new BBC series: Britain's Secret Seas

Ocean correspondent for the Times, and presenter of new BBC series Britain's Secret Seas (starting Sunday), Frank Pope shares his passion for our waters and why the UK needs more marine reserves now:

Everyone who's watched the stunning documentary series The Blue Planet is awestruck by the beauty and diversity of life in the ocean. But, I often felt that the spectacular colours, alien weirdness, and huge creatures featured, were filmed in a sea far different from the one that crashes against our cliffs and beaches. Boy, was I wrong.

Article tagged as: BBC, Britain's Secret Seas, Frank Pope, Marine Conversation Zones, marine reserves, The Blue Planet, Your Seas Your Voice

Princes responds to your emails but not your demands for sustainable tuna

Posted by jossg - 20 January 2011 at 6:12pm - 28 Comments
Turtle and FAD in East Pacific Ocean
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Update, 9 March 2011: both Princes and Asda have committed to removing tuna caught using fish aggregating devices in combination with purse seine nets from their supply chains by 2014. Read more >>

Princes sent out a message to almost 18,000 of you who emailed the company asking them to stop using fishing methods that kill sharks, turtles, dolphins and other fish in order to fill their cans with tuna.

I've taken the letter apart to explain what their response really means. The bottom line is they're still bottom of the tuna league.

Article tagged as: dolphins, email, fads, marine reserves, princes, purse seines, response, sharks, tuna, turtles

Sayonara, Nagoya: UN biodiversity summit closes

Posted by jamie - 1 November 2010 at 12:47pm - 0 Comments

Nathalie Rey (pictured above briefing journalists) is an Amsterdam-based Oceans Policy Analyst who led Greenpeace's delegation in Nagoya for the CBD. She is the proud mother of two daughters, an avid coffee drinker and a surprised fan of Japanese food.

After two weeks of negotiations, this Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has concluded and not without some last-minute drama. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the contentious issues were left to the last day. Delegates, media and observers were told that the Friday afternoon plenary discussion was to begin at 3pm. That meant that the 197 nations gathered here would have to agree a new Protocol, decide the future of protected areas on land and at sea and sign off on a new Strategic Plan for the CBD all in less than three hours.

For all of you out there who haven't sat through these talks for the past two weeks, I assure you that this seemed like an impossible feat when they announced it on Thursday.

Article tagged as: biodiversity, CBD, japan, marine reserves, oceans

Defending our Pacific at the UN biodiversity summit

Posted by jamie - 21 October 2010 at 4:35pm - 0 Comments

Seni Nabou is a political advisor at our Australia-Pacific office, based in Fiji. She is currently part of the Greenpeace delegation at the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan.

Article tagged as: biodiversity, CBD, marine reserves, oceans, pacific

Rescuing our oceans, in the International Year of Biodiversity

Posted by Willie - 14 October 2010 at 2:36pm - 0 Comments

Explore our new interactive map - with videos and slideshows explaining why our oceans need Marine Reserves now.

Article tagged as: marine reserves

New reports question if there are plenty more fish in the sea

Posted by Willie - 4 August 2010 at 9:57am - 3 Comments

Not plenty more where that came from © Greenpeace/Cobb

If you're reading this in the UK, you ran out of fish today.

Basically, the UK eats more fish than its waters produce and, thanks to some nifty fish-counting from the clever folks at NEF, that equates to the 4th of August being the day we use up our year's fish supply. In comparison to the EU as a whole, we fair a month better but then we are a country with quite a lot of seas, certainly in comparison with, er, Austria and Romania. Yet, for almost five full months we are relying on fish from somewhere else. And that might be okay, if there was plenty of it to go around. But of course, as the old saying should go, there aren't plenty more fish in the sea.

Article tagged as: common fisheries policy, DEFRA, fish stocks, marine reserves, oceans, overfishing, seafish
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