29 Oct 2024
Image: Dimitris Vetsikas/Pixabay The High Seas Treaty currently fills a key gap in international governance by establishing a mechanism for governments to establish Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the high seas. But funding is needed to kickstart the work of accelerating these MPAs, with a focus on supporting the Global South leadership ambitions and […]
29 Oct 2024
Since its launch in 2004, the BirdLife Seabird Tracking Database (STDB) has become one of the most comprehensive marine conservation collaborations in the world. It hosts the largest collection of seabird tracking data in existence, transforming how researchers and policymakers address the growing threats to seabirds and the marine environment in general. Photo: Gannet […]
29 Oct 2024
Twenty-three percent of Jersey’s territorial waters will receive far-reaching protections from destructive fishing practices after States members unanimously approved the island’s first Marine Spatial Plan in a landmark vote. The plan, which passed with 40 votes in favour and no votes against, sets out how the Jersey’s ‘marine estate’ should be managed in […]
29 Oct 2024
Image: Gilles Lagne/Pixabay In a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, an international team sampled 34 groups of short-beaked and long-beaked common dolphins amounting to thousands of individuals, in experiments where simulated as well as operational military sonars were activated in carefully controlled conditions — or deliberately not played in […]
28 Oct 2024
The European Union (EU) has decided to request the establishment of an arbitration tribunal under the dispute settlement mechanism of the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) concerning the United Kingdom’s decision to prohibit the fishing of sandeel. The arbitration tribunal would rule on the compatibility of the measure with the TCA. The ban has […]
23 Oct 2024
Defra has announced the launch of an Independent Commission into the water sector and its regulation, in what is expected to form the largest review of the industry since privatisation. The Commission forms the next stage in the Government’s long-term approach to ensuring we have a sufficiently robust and stable regulatory framework to attract the […]
23 Oct 2024
More than half the world’s food production will be at risk of failure within the next 25 years as a rapidly accelerating water crisis grips the planet, unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and end the destruction of the ecosystems on which our fresh water depends, experts have warned in a landmark […]
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