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Last month, Greenpeace France took a stand and, in a valiant act of environmental activism, took matters into their own hands. At sunrise on Wednesday, May 21, activists aboard the Arctic Sunrise<\/em> ship dropped 15 large limestone boulders into the Mediterranean Sea, targeting a protected area off the coast of Occitania known as the Gulf of Lion Marine Park.<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a9 Lorraine Turci \/ Greenpeace<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Carefully placed in a grid pattern on the ocean floor, each rock weighs between one and two tons. That is equivalent to a fully grown male White Rhino! The goal was to physically block bottom trawlers\u2014large fishing vessels that drag heavy, weighted nets across the ocean floor, a practice that has devastating impacts on ocean life.<\/p>\n\n

This action is the latest effort in an ongoing campaign highlighting the French government\u2019s inaction on marine conservation. Greenpeace is calling for a ban on bottom trawling in marine protected areas<\/a> (MPAs) before France co-hosts the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC-3) in Nice in June.<\/p>\n\n

The action highlighting the weakness of the French network of marine protected areas resulted in the Arctic Sunrise being banned from UNOC<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

The Gulf of Lion is a vital and diverse ecology in the Mediterranean, renowned for its rich biodiversity. There are magnificent habitats like Posidonia meadows, Coralligenous reefs, which support vulnerable marine life including gorgonians, sea cicadas and bluefin tuna.<\/p>\n\n

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Bluefin tuna inside a transport cage.\nThe Rainbow Warrior is in the Mediterranean for a three-month ship tour taking action on the threats to the sea and calling for a network of large-scale marine reserves to protect the health and productivity of the Mediterranean Sea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Although officially designated as a marine protected area, the region remains vulnerable to industrial fishing, which Fran\u00e7ois Chartier, Oceans Campaigner at Greenpeace France, says undermines the very meaning of protection. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cFor several years now, France\u2019s refusal to regulate destructive activities in its marine protected areas has been unanimously denounced by NGOs and numerous scientists,\u2019 <\/em>said Fran\u00e7ois Chartier, Oceans Campaigner at Greenpeace France \u2018The government still holds to an archaic vision of marine conservation and fishing. Agn\u00e8s Pannier-Runacher refuses to comply with international standards on levels of protection in MPAs, preferring instead an unfounded \u201ccase-by-case\u201d approach. The Minister must heed our request, which is also that of all ocean protection associations: she must ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n

This isn\u2019t Greenpeace\u2019s first move on the issue. In December 2024, the group exposed the presence of trawlers on the Bancs des Flandres<\/a>, another protected zone. In April, it collaborated with CNRS to publish a report<\/a> recommending a more meaningful and science-driven layout for MPAs across French waters. Now, by installing physical barriers in the form of boulders, Greenpeace is escalating its campaign to force the government\u2019s hand.Activists aboard the Arctic Sunrise <\/em>displayed banners that read \u201cThe government doesn\u2019t act, we do\u201d and \u201cMarine area protection in progress.\u201d It served as a direct affirmation of France\u2019s stated dedication to ocean protection.<\/p>\n\n

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A critical opportunity to protect our oceans<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

With the UNOC-3 just weeks away, France has a critical opportunity to protect our big blue planet. While President Emmanuel Macron has made bold international pledges\u2014opposing deep-sea mining and supporting the High Seas Treaty\u2014it\u2019s  time for those global ambitions to be ratified. To truly lead on ocean conservation, France must start by securing the health of its own marine environments.<\/p>\n\n

New Zealand bottom trawling<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

Bottom trawling<\/a> is a destructive method of fishing that involves dragging heavy, weighted nets across the sea floor in an effort to catch fish.<\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s popular with commercial fishing companies because it makes it easy to catch large quantities of fish but it also damages the seafloor and kills everything in its path.<\/p>\n\n

The New Zealand bottom trawling fleet is one of the biggest threats to the health of the ocean, here at home in the waters of Aotearoa<\/a> and in the international waters between New Zealand and Australia, where New Zealand is the only country still bottom trawling<\/a>. Just last year, a New Zealand trawler was caught pulling up 37kg of coral in the Tasman Sea<\/a> in an area known as Lord Howe Rise.<\/p>\n\n

In a recent expedition<\/a>, Greenpeace documented the beauty of thriving underwater communities, but we also saw the absolute destruction caused by New Zealand bottom trawlers. Underwater cameras revealed hours of footage of coral rubble, a coral graveyard.<\/p>\n\n

Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling on the New Zealand Government to back greater ocean protection, including banning bottom trawling from where it does the most harm and backing the creation of vast ocean sanctuaries on the high seas. These highly protected areas would protect ocean life from destructive industrial fishing like longlining and bottom trawling.<\/p>\n\n

This includes an area in the Tasman Sea, which is globally renowned for the diversity of life that lives there, from deep sea coral to seabirds and migratory whales. Did you know that New Zealand is the only country still bottom trawling in the international waters of the Tasman Sea, actively blocking ocean protection?

The bottom trawling industry must stop trawling in vulnerable marine areas so the ocean has a chance to recover and thrive. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t

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Join the call to demand that the NZ Govt bans bottom trawling on seamounts and similar deep sea features, and stop issuing permits for bottom trawling in international waters.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t \n Take Action\n <\/a>\n \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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