#Portugal is accelerating its goal to protect 30% of its #MarineProtectedArea coverage, with the creation of the Madeira-Tore and Gorringe Bank Marine Nature Reserve.
This massive 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣km reserve is a HUGE win for biodiversity.
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This massive 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣km reserve is a HUGE win for biodiversity.
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Portugal Now Expands Marine Conservation with Madeira-Tore and Gorringe Bank Marine Nature Reserve - Travel And Tour World
Portugal aims to reach 30% marine protected areas by 2026 with the creation of the Madeira-Tore and Gorringe Bank Marine Nature Reserve, enhancing sustainability
www.travelandtourworld.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#Portugal is accelerating its goal to protect 30% of its #MarineProtectedArea coverage, with the creation of the Madeira-Tore and Gorringe Bank Marine Nature Reserve.
This massive 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣km reserve is a HUGE win for biodiversity.
Read More:⤵️
www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
This massive 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣km reserve is a HUGE win for biodiversity.
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Pschenichnov had been imprisoned for “nothing more than providing scientific evidence about the impact of krill fishing on the Antarctic ecosystem”
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #antarctica #ccamlr #china #crimea #krill #leonidpshenichnov #marineprotectedarea #mpa #russia #ukraine #unjust
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #antarctica #ccamlr #china #crimea #krill #leonidpshenichnov #marineprotectedarea #mpa #russia #ukraine #unjust
Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing
‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Pschenichnov had been imprisoned for “nothing more than providing scientific evidence about the impact of krill fishing on the Antarctic ecosystem”
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #antarctica #ccamlr #china #crimea #krill #leonidpshenichnov #marineprotectedarea #mpa #russia #ukraine #unjust
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #antarctica #ccamlr #china #crimea #krill #leonidpshenichnov #marineprotectedarea #mpa #russia #ukraine #unjust
Eat the invaders!
Interventions for conservation:
https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/news/gokova-bay-what-monitoring-reveals-about-marine-recovery/
#eatemtobeatem #marineprotectedarea #Gökova #Göcek #Türkiye #marineconservation
Interventions for conservation:
https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/news/gokova-bay-what-monitoring-reveals-about-marine-recovery/
#eatemtobeatem #marineprotectedarea #Gökova #Göcek #Türkiye #marineconservation
What monitoring reveals about marine recovery in Gökova Bay | Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme
www.endangeredlandscapes.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Eat the invaders!
Interventions for conservation:
https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/news/gokova-bay-what-monitoring-reveals-about-marine-recovery/
#eatemtobeatem #marineprotectedarea #Gökova #Göcek #Türkiye #marineconservation
Interventions for conservation:
https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/news/gokova-bay-what-monitoring-reveals-about-marine-recovery/
#eatemtobeatem #marineprotectedarea #Gökova #Göcek #Türkiye #marineconservation
Conservation win for Spain as six marine protected areas declared
->Oceanographic | #conservation #marine protected area #ocean | More from Lil' Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->Oceanographic | #conservation #marine protected area #ocean | More from Lil' Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Conservation win for Spain as six marine protected areas declared
In a major step toward strengthening marine conservation, Spain has announced the designation of five new marine protected areas (MPAs) and one area of special importance for seabirds. The decision, made by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the...
oceanographicmagazine.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
🌊The Ocean Country Partnership Programme had a productive week in Maldives, working with partners at Ministry of Environment & Environmental Regulatory Authority, engaging stakeholders to progress work on #MarineProtectedArea management effectiveness.
#BluePlanetFund #30x30
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social
#BluePlanetFund #30x30
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🌊The Ocean Country Partnership Programme had a productive week in Maldives, working with partners at Ministry of Environment & Environmental Regulatory Authority, engaging stakeholders to progress work on #MarineProtectedArea management effectiveness.
#BluePlanetFund #30x30
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social
#BluePlanetFund #30x30
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social
Enforcement Gaps Threaten Europe's Marine Protected Areas
->Food Tank | #MarineProtectedArea #Ocean | More from BigEarthData.ai
->Food Tank | #MarineProtectedArea #Ocean | More from BigEarthData.ai
Enforcement Gaps Threaten Europe's Marine Protected Areas
A group of environmental organizations, led by ClientEarth, are stepping up legal challenges against national European governments for failing to address industrial fishing in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). These groups claim that existing nature protection laws are undermined by governments’...
foodtank.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Good luck to @sussexwildlife.bsky.social for this legal challenge - shocking that the government needs to be taken to court to stop them allowing dumping of waste in a #MarineProtectedArea oceanographicmagazine.com/news/uk-gove...
UK Government faces court for conservation area dumping licence - Oceanographic
Sussex Wildlife Trust has launched legal action against the UK government for granting licence to dump dredging spoil in marine protected area
oceanographicmagazine.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Good luck to @sussexwildlife.bsky.social for this legal challenge - shocking that the government needs to be taken to court to stop them allowing dumping of waste in a #MarineProtectedArea oceanographicmagazine.com/news/uk-gove...
#MPA #marineprotectedarea
#predatordiversity
"...in areas where there was limited fishing, as sea star numbers dropped, the urchin population was at least partially kept in check by those legally protected predators."
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#predatordiversity
"...in areas where there was limited fishing, as sea star numbers dropped, the urchin population was at least partially kept in check by those legally protected predators."
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How sea star wasting disease transformed the West Coast’s ecology and economy
The loss of one iconic species, sunflower sea stars, unleashed a voracious eater of seagrass habitats and upended the coastal ecosystem. But the response has opened new business opportunities.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
#MPA #marineprotectedarea
#predatordiversity
"...in areas where there was limited fishing, as sea star numbers dropped, the urchin population was at least partially kept in check by those legally protected predators."
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#predatordiversity
"...in areas where there was limited fishing, as sea star numbers dropped, the urchin population was at least partially kept in check by those legally protected predators."
share.google/SmZoFAMPSyGr...
A #beachclean isn't just for #footprints in the sand 👣,
a day or even a week - it's for life! 🐠
Choose #destinations where #conservation comes first 🌏
Where your #journey protect habitats, not just visit them, like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#Travel with #impact
a day or even a week - it's for life! 🐠
Choose #destinations where #conservation comes first 🌏
Where your #journey protect habitats, not just visit them, like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#Travel with #impact
September 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A #beachclean isn't just for #footprints in the sand 👣,
a day or even a week - it's for life! 🐠
Choose #destinations where #conservation comes first 🌏
Where your #journey protect habitats, not just visit them, like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#Travel with #impact
a day or even a week - it's for life! 🐠
Choose #destinations where #conservation comes first 🌏
Where your #journey protect habitats, not just visit them, like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#Travel with #impact
A #beachclean isn't just for #footprints in the sand 👣
a day or even a week - it's for life! 🐠
Choose #destinations where #conservation comes 1st🌏
Where your journey protect habitats, not just visits them, like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#Travel with #impact, not just footprints
a day or even a week - it's for life! 🐠
Choose #destinations where #conservation comes 1st🌏
Where your journey protect habitats, not just visits them, like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#Travel with #impact, not just footprints
September 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A #beachclean isn't just for #footprints in the sand 👣
a day or even a week - it's for life! 🐠
Choose #destinations where #conservation comes 1st🌏
Where your journey protect habitats, not just visits them, like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#Travel with #impact, not just footprints
a day or even a week - it's for life! 🐠
Choose #destinations where #conservation comes 1st🌏
Where your journey protect habitats, not just visits them, like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#Travel with #impact, not just footprints
It's #GreatBritishBeachClean week🧹
A clean #beach isn't just for #footprints in the sand👣
- it's for life! 🐠
Who wouldn't want to see last year's 46 #turtle nests
& 2,257 hatchlings 🐢
of critically/#endangered #Hawksbill & Green #Turtles
here!
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#SDG15 #SDG14
A clean #beach isn't just for #footprints in the sand👣
- it's for life! 🐠
Who wouldn't want to see last year's 46 #turtle nests
& 2,257 hatchlings 🐢
of critically/#endangered #Hawksbill & Green #Turtles
here!
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#SDG15 #SDG14
September 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's #GreatBritishBeachClean week🧹
A clean #beach isn't just for #footprints in the sand👣
- it's for life! 🐠
Who wouldn't want to see last year's 46 #turtle nests
& 2,257 hatchlings 🐢
of critically/#endangered #Hawksbill & Green #Turtles
here!
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#SDG15 #SDG14
A clean #beach isn't just for #footprints in the sand👣
- it's for life! 🐠
Who wouldn't want to see last year's 46 #turtle nests
& 2,257 hatchlings 🐢
of critically/#endangered #Hawksbill & Green #Turtles
here!
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#SDG15 #SDG14
It's #GreatBritishBeachClean week🧹
But a clean beach isn't just for our direct experience & aesthetic pleasure 😎
It's habitat & safe haven for others, another benefit for us 🏝
Who wouldn't want to see some of last year's 2,257 #turtle #hatchlings?! 🐢
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#SDG15
But a clean beach isn't just for our direct experience & aesthetic pleasure 😎
It's habitat & safe haven for others, another benefit for us 🏝
Who wouldn't want to see some of last year's 2,257 #turtle #hatchlings?! 🐢
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#SDG15
September 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It's #GreatBritishBeachClean week🧹
But a clean beach isn't just for our direct experience & aesthetic pleasure 😎
It's habitat & safe haven for others, another benefit for us 🏝
Who wouldn't want to see some of last year's 2,257 #turtle #hatchlings?! 🐢
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#SDG15
But a clean beach isn't just for our direct experience & aesthetic pleasure 😎
It's habitat & safe haven for others, another benefit for us 🏝
Who wouldn't want to see some of last year's 2,257 #turtle #hatchlings?! 🐢
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#SDG15
It's the #GreatBritishBeachClean this week 🧹
but it doesn't matter where we are or when,
don't we just love a clean beach?! ⛱
We want to get sand between our toes, not straws! 🥤
Like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#TravelTuesday #SustainableTravel #BeachClean #Travel #Impact #SDG15
but it doesn't matter where we are or when,
don't we just love a clean beach?! ⛱
We want to get sand between our toes, not straws! 🥤
Like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#TravelTuesday #SustainableTravel #BeachClean #Travel #Impact #SDG15
September 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It's the #GreatBritishBeachClean this week 🧹
but it doesn't matter where we are or when,
don't we just love a clean beach?! ⛱
We want to get sand between our toes, not straws! 🥤
Like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#TravelTuesday #SustainableTravel #BeachClean #Travel #Impact #SDG15
but it doesn't matter where we are or when,
don't we just love a clean beach?! ⛱
We want to get sand between our toes, not straws! 🥤
Like here
www.earth-changers.com/sustainable-...
#TravelTuesday #SustainableTravel #BeachClean #Travel #Impact #SDG15
🌊The Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) team wrapped up a productive week in Ghana with a National Workshop in Accra, bringing together stakeholders to validate the draft #MarineProtectedArea Implementation Roadmap 🧵
#BluePlanetFund
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social
#BluePlanetFund
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🌊The Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) team wrapped up a productive week in Ghana with a National Workshop in Accra, bringing together stakeholders to validate the draft #MarineProtectedArea Implementation Roadmap 🧵
#BluePlanetFund
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social
#BluePlanetFund
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social
Endocrine Disruptors Pose Ecological Risks to Marine Protected Areas
->Newswise | #MarineProtectedArea #Ocean #Ecological | More info from BigEarthData.ai
->Newswise | #MarineProtectedArea #Ocean #Ecological | More info from BigEarthData.ai
Endocrine Disruptors Pose Ecological Risks to Marine Protected Areas
Newswise — Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) encompass a class of substances capable of interfering with the endocrine system, thereby inducing diseases and functional irregularities in organisms. These substances are widely used in commercial and personal care products and have been frequently...
www.newswise.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Tomorrow the 4-day journey to #PitcairnIsland begins! We’re participating in the 2025 #BlueBelt #expedition to support the #MarineProtectedArea. Six international scientists from Australia, Scotland & Brazil were awarded funding from #Cefas; the research will focus on ecosystem & #seabird health
September 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Tomorrow the 4-day journey to #PitcairnIsland begins! We’re participating in the 2025 #BlueBelt #expedition to support the #MarineProtectedArea. Six international scientists from Australia, Scotland & Brazil were awarded funding from #Cefas; the research will focus on ecosystem & #seabird health
Kelp forests in Marine Protected Areas are more resilient to marine heatwaves
->British Ecological Society | #MarineProtectedArea #ClimateChange #Ocean #Forest #Heatwave | More info from EcoSearch
->British Ecological Society | #MarineProtectedArea #ClimateChange #Ocean #Forest #Heatwave | More info from EcoSearch
Kelp forests in Marine Protected Areas are more resilient to marine heatwaves
Using four decades of satellite images, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers have looked at the impacts Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are having on kelp forests along the coast of California. They found that although the overall effect of...
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
September 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Environment ministry moves to ban gas drilling in Germany's marine protected areas
->Clean Energy Wire | #MarineProtectedArea #Environment #Ocean | More info from EcoSearch
->Clean Energy Wire | #MarineProtectedArea #Environment #Ocean | More info from EcoSearch
Environment ministry moves to ban gas drilling in Germany's marine protected areas
Germany’s environment ministry has proposed banning oil and natural gas drilling in marine protected areas along the country’s coast, reported Tagesspiegel Background. Exceptions to marine protection rules would only be allowed for the “exploration and extraction of sand and gravel,”...
www.cleanenergywire.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Marine protected areas keep California's kelp resilient against rising water temperatures, scientists find
->UCLA | #Water #MarineProtectedArea #Science #Ocean | More info from EcoSearch
->UCLA | #Water #MarineProtectedArea #Science #Ocean | More info from EcoSearch
Marine protected areas keep California's kelp resilient against rising water temperatures, scientists find
Key takeaways Kelp forests play an important role in healthy coastal ecosystems, but they prefer cold water and die off if the water gets too warm, such as during marine heat waves. UCLA geographers using 40 years of satellite data...
newsroom.ucla.edu
August 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Kelp forests in Marine Protected Areas are more resilient to marine heatwaves
->EurekAlert | #Heatwave #ClimateChange #Forest #MarineProtectedArea #Ocean | More info from EcoSearch
->EurekAlert | #Heatwave #ClimateChange #Forest #MarineProtectedArea #Ocean | More info from EcoSearch
Kelp forests in Marine Protected Areas are more resilient to marine heatwaves
www.eurekalert.org
August 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
We tracked illegal fishing in marine protected areas - satellites and AI show most bans are respected, and could help enforce future ones
->SPACE.com | #Ocean #AI #MarineProtectedArea | More info from EcoSearch
->SPACE.com | #Ocean #AI #MarineProtectedArea | More info from EcoSearch
We tracked illegal fishing in marine protected areas - satellites and AI show most bans are respected, and could help enforce future ones
Many ocean ecosystems are supposed to be protected, but monitoring them can be a challenge. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Marine protected areas cover more...
www.space.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Marine Protected Areas Day: Ocean protection needs human connection
->Earth.com | #Ocean #MarineProtectedArea | More info from EcoSearch
->Earth.com | #Ocean #MarineProtectedArea | More info from EcoSearch
Marine Protected Areas Day: Ocean protection needs human connection
The ocean has long seemed too vast to manage, too deep to control, and too distant to monitor. But this perception is changing fast. With satellites, machine learning, and global cooperation, the idea of protecting the marine life is no...
www.earth.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
BC and Gitga'at and Gitxaała Nations are launching a new 14sq. km wildlife management area in the Kitkiata & Kishkosh Inlets, to be stewarded by the Nations’ Guardians. It's a first step and interim layer of protection for the inlets under the Great Bear Sea #MarineProtectedArea Network
BC takes first steps to protect coastal conservation hotspots with First Nations
New provincial wildlife management area recognizes deep cultural and ecological values of the Kitkiata and Kishkosh inlets in the Great Bear Sea region.
www.nationalobserver.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BC and Gitga'at and Gitxaała Nations are launching a new 14sq. km wildlife management area in the Kitkiata & Kishkosh Inlets, to be stewarded by the Nations’ Guardians. It's a first step and interim layer of protection for the inlets under the Great Bear Sea #MarineProtectedArea Network