Just after the UK’s announcement to protect two areas of English waters by banning damaging fishing activities such as bottom trawling, it will be the European Parliament’s turn to show how ambitious it truly is in protecting EU waters. During the first week of May in Strasbourg, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will have … Read more
As the EU celebrates the 30th anniversary of Natura 2000, NGOs highlight EU countries’ lax implementation of EU nature laws and permissiveness towards widespread destructive fishing, resulting in the conservation status of threatened marine habitats and species remaining overall dire. NGOs call to quickly redress the balance and create an EU-wide ban on bottom trawling … Read more
If space is the ‘final frontier’, the ocean depths are no doubt the ultimate frontier. To this day it is hard to imagine, despite all our advanced technology, that we know more about the surface of the moon — hundreds of thousands of kilometers away — than of the complex ecosystems that inhabit the ocean’s deep … Read more
Oceana welcomes the designation of four new Scottish Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas (NCMPAs) as an important contribution to the ecological coherence of the Scottish Marine Protected Areas (MPA) network. The four sites – Southern Trench, North-east Lewis, Sea of the Hebrides and Shiant East Bank – will grant protection to a rich array of … Read more
The paper dives into examples of investment opportunities in an effort to illustrate how a green recovery for the oceans is possible, for instance by: Actively restoring marine ecosystems, such as rebuilding oyster reefs and fish passages in coastal dams — This can stimulate economic activities in sectors such as marine construction while increasing fish … Read more
The study looked into the fishing activity across marine Nature 2000 sites having a focus on variety of protected features protected by the Habitats Directive. Significant incompatible fishing activity was observed inside Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) across all of the European Union (EU), particularly within reef and sandbank habitats types (codes 1170 and 1110).This poster summarizes … Read more
The mapping of its deep habitats could be used as a model to improve the management and conservation of this and other protected areas In the research journal Aquatic conservation: Marine and freshwater ecosystems, the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) and Oceana have published a map of the deep habitats of Seco de los … Read more
ClientEarth, Coalition Clean Baltic, Oceana, Seas at Risk and WWF warn that marine life across Europe is being harmed because member states are neglecting to actively manage marine protected areas. This puts at risk much of the biodiversity within the marine Natura 2000 network of protected sites, which protects on paper around 10% of waters … Read more
Le organizzazioni ambientaliste chiedono di istituire misure di gestione concrete in aree marine protette ClientEarth, Coalition Clean Baltic, Oceana, Seas at Risk e WWF avvertono che la vita marina in Europa viene danneggiata dal fatto che gli stati dell’Unione Europea non stanno gestendo in modo attivo le aree marine protette. Questa negligenza, mette a … Read more
Les organisations environnementales demandent la mise en place de mesures de gestion concrètes dans les aires marines protégées européennes ClientEarth, Coalition Clean Baltic, Oceana, Seas at Risk et le WWF avertissent que la vie marine en Europe est menacée à cause de la négligence des pays européens à gérer activement leurs aires marines protégées. … Read more
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