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Outrage as Biden Admin Refuses to Shield Right Whales From Lethal Vessel Strikes
Jan 22, 2023 "This is an extinction-level emergency," said one campaigner. "Every mother right whale and calf is critical to the survival of the species."
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Costa Rica Accused of International and U.S. Fishing Violations related to IUU by-catches of CITES-listed marine megafauna in the PACA Large Marine Ecosystem
18 Marine Conservation Organizations and Beyond the Se@ have called NOAA-NMS to authorize U.S. Port Access and Import Restrictions to issue a negative ruling to force Costa Rica to take action to Protect Threatened Sharks and Billfish. The call for action is the result of a year-long effort by Marine Watch that started with the Terminal Evaluation of a Global Environment Facility (GEF) project on Sustainable Marine Value Chains.
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RECENT ACTION-WORTHY NEWS
Some Good Marine Megafauna & By-catch Links:
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Plundered Oceans: IUU Fishing in Central American and Caribbean Waters
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New, Free Tool Gives Everyone a Satellite View of Illegal Fishing
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More to come
And here are some switched on organizations working to keep fins attached and other megafauna safer:
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More to come
And, when the Oceans need a good Lawyer (my favorite to work with):
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EARTHJUSTICE ​
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Take a Holistic Approach to Manage Blue Carbon Ecosystems
Jan.15: Despite the continued scrambling to present brittle solutions for slowing down the decline of the world's mangroves, the Blue Carbon Big NGO (BINGO) 'establishment' continues stamping its carbon footprint en route to international fora and producing slick publications to promote their narrowly focused neo-classical conceptual framework that zeroes-in on protecting mangrove tree species and not the entire mangal ecosystem. This looks like a one way ticket for the demise of their sacred tree species and associated Biodiversity. Might it not be a time to re-think the our approach and reconsider a broader conceptual and operational framework that embraces the entire mangal ecosystem that also included the freshwater and other brackish wetland sponges that soak up nutrients and help maintain resilient interstitial physico-chemical conditions that are crucial for mangrove tree survival? Below are several examples that might help us re-think the current (no pun intended) path.
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LINKS: This video provides an overview of a relatively untouched mangal area in Guyana's border with Venezuela.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ThLJ1GJvA
CIRCULAR
BLUE ECONOMIES
To date most of the blue-washing efforts to develop and promote Blue Economies is alot of fluff, as it focuses on maintaining the neo-lib status quo of 'cradle to the grave' approaches rather than circular conceptual and operational frameworks that promote throughput.
I am pleased to be able to work together with the Irish NGO GOAL who is keen to add a Circular Blue Ecosystem-based dimension to their great work with blue value chains.
MERCURY-Free Planet
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Increasing Artisanal Gold Miner profits through Remediation and Mercury-free methods in Honduras with support from the Danish Innovation Fund.
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El Platek a/s Denmark
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The 2022 Annual Report will soon be uploaded.
