{"id":21496,"date":"2026-06-26T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/?p=21496"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:05:31","slug":"ocean-justice-report-making-the-case-for-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-marine-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/publication\/21496\/ocean-justice-report-making-the-case-for-a-human-rights-based-approach-to-marine-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Justice Report | Making the case for a human rights-based approach to marine conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Around the world, Indigenous Peoples and local communities manage extensive areas of the lands and seas most important for global ecosystem protection and restoration. The Kunming-Montr\u00e9al Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF), adopted in December 2022, includes the strongest recognition to date of Indigenous Peoples\u2019 and local communities\u2019 rights and contributions in a decision text of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). However, translating these international commitments into national policies and in-country implementation remains a serious challenge, as exposed in this report. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Drawing on four case studies \u2013 Senegal, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Chile \u2013 this report highlights how governments are lagging behind in delivering on their international commitments, and most importantly, how governments can significantly enhance realization of their commitments by investing in rights-based and community-led conservation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

Millions of small-scale fishers, Indigenous Peoples, and coastal communities rely on healthy oceans for food, income, and cultural survival. Their traditional knowledge safeguards healthy marine life for a healthy ocean and climate, both crucial for all living beings and future generations to thrive. But as the report exposes, coastal communities livelihoods and marine life are threatened by industrial exploitation of the ocean<\/strong>: from the salmon farms in Kaw\u00e9sqar National Reserve in Patagonia, to the fishmeal plants in West Africa, sand mining in Sri Lanka, and industrial mega-projects in Thailand, industrial exploitation of the oceans is \u201cstripping coastal waters,\u201d turning a source of life into a \u201cliquid desert\u201d. Community-led conservation is a powerful strategy for sustaining coastal livelihoods, marine life, and a healthy climate for all, but it requires more support from governments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

Greenpeace calls on governments to deliver on their global commitments to curb biodiversity loss through a human-rights based approach under the global biodiversity commitments, by:<\/p>\n\n