Proud to share this launch - critical investigative work by the Oceana UK team!

Enough is enough. It’s time for a ban - starting yesterday.

Take action with us, @bluemarinef.bsky.social & Only One to save UK seas. Email the Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, telling him to BAN bottom trawling in marine protected areas. 🚫✊

💥 ACT: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-... 👈👈

❌ Promise made. Promise broken?

The UK Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, VOWED to end bottom trawling.

A year on, and we are STILL waiting. 3/4 🔽

Ancient ocean habitats. Magnificent wildlife. Bottom trawling destroys it ALL. 🪸 So it's all the more SHOCKING that 90% of UK marine protected areas remain open to this destruction.

It makes a mockery of the entire meaning of "marine PROTECTED"?! 2/4 🔽

Full report 👉 uk.oceana.org/reports/the-...

It might seem like a loss on paper, but it’s a win in the water. 🌊 This news should empower the UK Govt to go even further for our #ocean.

🪸 Kicking destructive #bottomtrawling out of marine protected areas MUST be next. ✊

Take action here👉 act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

We’re done letting them hide the damage. #BigOil, your time is up.

Take a look. Take a breath. Then #TakeAction.
ACT 👉 act.oceana.org/page/165588/...

🗺️ MAP 👉 stopoffshoredrilling.org.uk/map

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#BigOil may be playing dirty, but the facts are crystal clear. Oil and gas pollutes our seas and wrecks our #marine protected areas. It’s time for government to stop defending unlawful licences and start implementing the ban on all new oil and gas. 8/9 🔽

That’s right - we don’t know how much #pollution is out there, because oil companies aren’t telling us. The map shows an awful picture, but the missing data means it’s even worse. 7/9 🔽

To add insult to injury, our Sea Slick report found that when these permits were breached, and oil companies released more than they’re allowed to, roughly a third of reported incidents didn’t share the volume of oil released into the ocean. 6/9 🔽

Shockingly, it’s even worse than it looks. Our map only exposes the hundreds of spills reported by the industry each year. But they also get permits to pump our #ocean with a byproduct called ‘produced water’, essentially a chemical soup laced with oil . 5/9 🔽

Our live spill map uncovers an awful reality. In the last year alone, #BigOil were responsible for 79 spills in marine protected areas. The largest resulted in 11,170kg of chemicals spewing into a supposedly “protected” ocean haven. With each spill, Big Oil shows it can’t be trusted. 4/9 🔽

Let’s be clear: oil pollution is toxic. Not just for our #marine wildlife, but for us too. These pollutants flood our seas and can contaminate the food we eat. It’s sickening. We mean that literally. 🤮 3/9 🔽

For years, opaque reporting & weak regulation have allowed #oil giants to get away with polluting our seas. But oil spills aren’t just dirty; they’re deadly:

🛑 Lung lesions in dolphins
⚠️ Liver damage in whales
❌ Internal bleeding in seabirds 2/9 🔽