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Oct 16 - 2017
EN Europe

Seagrass mapping in Greek territorial waters using Landsat-8 satellite images

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Seagrass meadows are among the most valuable coastal ecosystems on earth due to their structural and functional roles in the coastal environment. This study demonstrates remote sensing's capacity to produce seagrass distribution maps on a regional scale. The seagrass coverage maps provided here describe and quantify for the first time the extent and the spatial distribution of seagrass meadows in Greek waters. This information is needed for identifying priority conservation sites and to help coastal ecosystem managers and stakeholders to develop conservation strategies and design a resilient network of protected marine areas.
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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine Protected Areas
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Research
Jun 02 - 2022
EN Europe

Citizen science indicates significant range recovery and defines new conservation priorities for Earth's most endangered pinniped in Greece

Animal Conservation

Using the example of the efforts to protect the Mediterranean Monk Seal, this study demonstrates how citizen science and appropriate statistical modelling (here, occupancy modelling) can inform the conservation management of endangered marine mammals as they recolonize historical habitat.
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Marine Protected Areas / Marine fauna
Research
Nov 01 - 2023
EN Global

Sovereign ESG bonds in the global south: 10 questions for those concerned about debt and climate justice

European Network on Debt and Development

An introduction to sovereign ESG bonds and explores some of the limitations and risks around the push for ESG financing as a way for global south countries to close the financing gap for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate action. By Dr. Andre Standing
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Investment and subsidies / Marine Protected Areas / Biodiversity loss
Research
Oct 01 - 2023
EN Global

The Financialization of Marine Conservation: The Case of Debt-for-Ocean Swaps

Society for International Development

Several concerns exist about debt-for-ocean swaps, opaque transactions from the perspective of debt justice and the democratic and equitable governance of marine resources. Debt-for-ocean swaps illustrate the pace at which financialization has transformed international approaches to conservation and the risks that this brings. By Dr. Andre Standing
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Investment and subsidies / Marine Protected Areas / Biodiversity loss
Documentary Films
Jan 27 - 2023
EN South America

Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

One Earth

Sixty-seven salmon farms exist within Kawésqar National Reserve in southern Chile, an area that formed part of the Kawésqar Indigenous people’s ancestral lands, and another 66 concessions are under consideration there.
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Marine Protected Areas / Small-scale fishers / Legislation / Salmon
Research
Nov 08 - 2021
EN Global

Understanding the Conservation Finance Industry

Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements

An introduction to how US conservation organisations have been taken over by big finance. By Dr. Andre Standing
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Biodiversity loss / Climate change / Marine Protected Areas / Investment and subsidies
Research
Nov 15 - 2023
EN Global

Gabon’s Odious Debt-for-ocean Swap: The implications for ocean governance

Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements

The Nature Conservancy's debt-for-ocean swap with Gabon will result in protection for 30% of Gabon's oceans, but brings in question issues of debt justice, ocean governance, and implications for coastal communities. By Dr. Andre Standing
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Investment and subsidies / Marine Protected Areas / Biodiversity loss / Small-scale fishers
Research
Jan 01 - 2007
EN Europe

Monitoring methods for Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows in Provence and the French Riviera

Scientific Reports of Port-Cros National Park

The Posidonia Monitoring Network is an extensive system put in place in 1984 to monitor the health of Posidonia meadows around Provence and the French Riviera. It aims to track the effects of human activity to help shape policies around marine protected areas.
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Harmful Algal Blooms / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine Protected Areas / Legislation
Research
Apr 15 - 2024
EN Global

Balancing protection and production in ocean conservation

Nature Portfolio

With the acceleration of the global biodiversity and climate crises, the need to protect and sustainably manage ocean resources has never been greater. However, the science needed to integrate ocean protection (through marine protected areas and OECMs) and sustainable production in the blue economy (particularly pelagic fisheries) remains underdeveloped and contested. The scientific divide and the knowledge gaps still remaining have created serious real-world challenges for practitioners seeking to reconcile protection and production approaches, and is hindering progress in achieving global conservation targets. Here, we identify the vital science necessary to bring together the 'twin pillars' of protection and production, integrating mutually reinforcing meaningful protections at scale, while also driving management of production systems to internationally accepted sustainability standards. The research community must rapidly develop this new horizon of ocean science – particularly in pelagic ecosystems - to aid countries and practitioners in achieving global conservation and sustainable development targets. By John N. Kittinger, Randi D. Rotjan, Quentin Hanich, Brendon Pasisi, Constance Rambourg
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Marine Protected Areas / Marine fauna / Biodiversity loss / Animal Ethics / Investment and subsidies
Interactive / Website
May 01 - 2025
EN Global

The Sea We Breathe

Blue Marine Foundation

Blue Marine Foundation is a charity dedicated to restoring the ocean to health by addressing overfishing, one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. Dive into Blue Marine's new virtual reality experience to learn why ocean action is climate action. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.

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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine Protected Areas / Marine fauna / Climate change
Investigative Journalism
Oct 03 - 2024
EN North America

‘I won’t believe it until I see it happen’: Could a ban on sea farms save Canada’s salmon?

The Guardian

A row over sea life, lice and livelihoods is dividing communities as the government plans to end open-net pen farming in British Columbian waters. By Shannon Waters
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Marine Protected Areas / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Biodiversity loss / Legislation / Salmon
Documentary Films
Jan 26 - 2023
EN South America

Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

Mongabay

In recent years, Kawésqar communities have learned new forms of resistance to counter the proliferation of the salmon industry, which is harming the fragile ecosystem of their ancestral territory.
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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Marine fauna / Marine Protected Areas / Small-scale fishers / Legislation / Salmon
Investigative Journalism
Aug 16 - 2021
EN Europe

Ocean Desolation: How Fish Farm Pollution Is Killing Marine Life in Greece

The Ferret

Researchers reported about a “desolation scenario” around sea bream and sea bass farms in Western Greece.
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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Biodiversity loss / Marine Protected Areas / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
Research
Dec 01 - 2023
EN Europe

Monachus monachus, Mediterranean Monk Seal

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

The Mediterranean Monk Seal has rebounded from critically endangered status, but unpredictable threats exist, including disease, toxic algal blooms, cave collapses, pollution, and climate change. Greece supports a growing range of habitat for the monk seal, but the government must prioritize conservation efforts to protect them. Fisheries contribute to the pollution that threatens this species.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Harmful Algal Blooms / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine fauna / Marine Protected Areas / Climate change / Biodiversity loss / Legislation
Investigative Journalism
Aug 22 - 2023
EN Europe

Greek island's fierce opposition to the uncontrolled growth of fish farming

Le Monde

Designated by the Greek government as a strategic area for aquaculture, Poros could soon see a quarter of its coastline invaded by fish breeding ponds. Local residents are up in arms against the project, which they believe will negatively impact tourism.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine Protected Areas / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Tourism / Sea Bream / Sea Bass
Investigative Journalism
Oct 24 - 2024
EN Global

Industrial Fishing Undermines World’s Greatest Carbon Sink, Experts Warn

DeSmog

Damage to oceans is releasing vast amounts of CO2, despite efforts to market fish as a sustainable food. By Sophie Kevany
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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine fauna / Marine Protected Areas / Climate change / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Legislation
Investigative Journalism
Oct 24 - 2023
GR Europe

Fish farms in Poros: Why the residents don't want them

Solomon

A quarter of the island in the Saronic Gulf is set to be dedicated to fish farming, increasing its activity by 670%. The municipal authorities and residents — who disagree with the plan — fear that the character of the island will change forever. 

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Marine Protected Areas / Investment and subsidies / Tourism / Legislation / Poros / Sea Bream / Sea Bass / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde)
Opinion
Oct 09 - 2024
EN Global

Farmed Salmon Isn’t 'Mediterranean'

Medium

How the world’s healthiest diet is used to prop up a troubling fish. A special guest post by Rauch Foundation's Eva Douzinas on Paul Greenberg's (The Four Fish) Medium page.
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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Marine Protected Areas / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Hunger / Nutrition / Tourism / Investment and subsidies / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Salmon / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
Investigative Journalism
Mar 18 - 2021
EN Europe

Fish Farms in Mediterranean ‘Paradise’ Blamed for Pollution

The Ferret

The environmental impact of fish farming in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Marine Protected Areas / Marine fauna / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Investment and subsidies / Tourism / FAO Committee on Fisheries / Poros / Salmon / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
Documentary Films
Jun 08 - 2023
ES (EN subtitles) South America

Corazón Salado: A Journey to Protect the Kawésqar’s Ancestral Waters

Patagonia

Ramón Navarro joins with the Kawésqar—a traditionally nomadic Indigenous community who had their practices stripped from them during the colonization of Chilean Patagonia—in a fight for their homeland and ancestral waters. The salmon industry is creeping deeper and deeper into the region, polluting and destroying its wild and delicate ecosystem. For the locals, the fish no longer bite here, forcing the Kawésqar to stray farther from home to feed and support their families.
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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Marine fauna / Climate change / Marine Protected Areas / Pesticides / Antibiotics / Investment and subsidies / Small-scale fishers / Tourism / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Legislation / Salmon
Opinion
Aug 11 - 2024
EN Global

Too Much of Our Seafood Has a Dark Secret

New York Times

Explores the factors a consumer should consider when purchasing seafood.
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Marine Protected Areas / Biodiversity loss / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Hunger / Nutrition / Investment and subsidies / Labor / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Value chain / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Legislation / Bivalves / Low trophic-level fish / Plant-based (e.g. seaweed or kelp) / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) / Salmon / Shrimp
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