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Vaquita success! New protections could save this endangered porpoise

Blog entry by Phil Kline | 26 July, 2016

With only 60 animals remaining, the vaquita porpoise is on the brink of extinction. That's why 150,000 Greenpeace supporters have stood up to save this shy, beautiful animal. And the Mexican government just announced new protections...

Does your cafeteria serve ocean destruction?

Blog entry by David Pinsky | 24 August, 2016

Every time you eat in a restaurant, hospital, airport, a university cafeteria, or at even at a rock concert, it is likely that you are eating food provided by a large foodservice company. Sea of Distress, a brand new Greenpeace US...

3 big reasons why we need ocean sanctuaries now

Blog entry by Magnus Eckeskog | 30 August, 2016 2 comments

Last Friday, US President Obama announced the creation of the  world’s largest ocean sanctuary , and today governments from all over the world are meeting at the United Nations in New York to develop a new treaty to save our oceans.

Mexico 1 : New Zealand 0

Blog entry by Karli Thomas | 14 April, 2015 1 comment

No, that's not a football score, it's the score-card on how our countries are faring in the protection of two of the world's smallest and cutest marine mammals: Mexico's vaquita porpoise and New Zealand's Maui's dolphin. New Zealand...

I'm a vaquita and I'm in danger

Blog entry by Vaquita 97 | 28 November, 2014 7 comments

To you who reads me: My name is Vaquita 97. Few people know me, few have heard of me and fewer people have seen me. In order for you to imagine me, I’ll say I look like a dolphin but smaller, I’m a marine porpoise. Some say I...

Victory! World's largest marine protected area established off Antarctica!

Blog entry by Willie Mackenzie | 28 October, 2016

Today, the largest marine protected area in the world was created in the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica. This is a HUGE victory for the whales, penguins, and toothfish that live there and for the millions of people standing up...

What will it take to protect the world’s fish and oceans for future generations?

Blog entry by Dr Cat Dorey | 1 December, 2016

I don’t speak tuna . And I fear my ability to sign in shark could be fatally misconstrued. But next week when people from all around the Pacific and beyond meet in Fiji to discuss the future of fisheries in the region, our finned...

Kayaktivists just took to the water for biodiversity – and for the communities...

Blog entry by Richard Page | 13 December, 2016

Greetings from Cancun, Mexico where I am attending the 13th meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), perhaps more easily understood as the “summit for life on Earth". That the meeting is held in Mexico is highly...

Are there human rights abuses in your seafood?

Blog entry by Anchalee Pipattanawattanakul | 16 December, 2016

Migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar are being used as forced labour in the Thai fishing industry. Using tricks of deception, non-binding verbal agreements and induced debt, these workers catch fish both for human consumption and...

Building a future for fish AND people

Blog entry by Cat Dorey | 19 December, 2016

You’d think it would be hard to get emotional about fish and how they’re managed. But at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Western & Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) emotions ran high - after five long days of tough...

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