For Pacific people, Japan’s refusal to heed repeated calls by fisherfolk, youth & women’s groups, community elders, churches and gov leaders is exactly the reason why we cannot trust them.

#PNG #Vanuatu #NuclearJustice #NuclearWaste #NukeFreePacific MSG Secretariat Dan McGarry

#MoanaMonday
DSM & Overfishing are two sides of the same coin, both driven by a relentless pursuit of resources at the expense of our oceans.

Its time we draw the line & call for accountability and action from those who are really responsible!

#ProtectOurOceans #StopOceanCrime

🌎 A milestone in Indigenous-led conservation efforts!

The first-ever U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area (IMSA) declared in California is set to advance the profile of Indigenous marine stewardship of ancestral waters 💧

news.mongabay.com/2024/01/first-…

Protecting the Humboldt Archipelago - such a great story. Mining interests keen to mine the archipelago v communities keen to protect the area. The reject-and-appeal cycle had to be stopped for good, La Higuera needed permanent protection -an MPA
#OceanJustice
#MultibeingJustice

Algorithm as gateway to extinction…
How AI & social media platforms function as drivers of the global extinction crisis.
#ExtinctionCrisis #OceanJustice
hakaimagazine.com/features/for-s…

Regulatory measures to eliminate shark finning & assoc, fishing mortality may be “incentivising the full use of sharks and creating additional markets for shark meat and other products”
#OceanJustice
#ExtractingOcean
seaaroundus.org/shark-alert-gl…

10,000+ ppl dumping in the seas: 7,600 pax + 2,500 crew. Sewage generation rates est btwn 68 -39 litres/p/d. MARPOL Annex IV allows ships to discharge undisinfected sewerage if >400gt carrying >15 pax, 12nm+ from land, proceeding at 4 knots+
bbc.com/news/world-us-…
#Ocean Justice

Great outcome abc.net.au/news/2024-01-1…

Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh's compelling argument in South Africa v Israel - the genocide case against Israel #icj
youtube.com/watch?v=g08O4N…

11 January 2023 - ICJ, The Hague

Watching African women & men fighting to save humanity & the int'l legal system against the ruthless attacks supported/enabled by most of the West will remain one of the defining images of our time. This will make history whatever happens.

🛟 Norway's plan to decimate their seabed with commercial #DSM will lead to devastating consequences for their marine life Environmental Justice Foundation

#nodsm #defendthedeep #nodeepseamining #whales #greenpeace #ejf #criticalminerals #Arctic

theguardian.com/environment/20…

If not listening to top European scientists refuting claims that deep sea minerals are critical for green transition, >800 ocean scientists warning of damaging impact on Arctic Ocean ecosystems, fishery organisations, & intl community, who are 🇳🇴they🇳🇴listening to? #OceanJustice

Accounting for slaughter: whale stamps.
‘a whale’s tail fluke denoted a whale sighting, whilst one of an entire whale, its slaughter…This visual lexicon…an efficient means of recording expeditions for vessel owners’
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-art-…
#OceanJustice #ExtractingOcean

'Discarding military waste at sea was not uncommon in decades past, but this once-forgotten history of ocean dumping continues to haunt our environment today.'

75% of world’s industrial fishing vessels are “dark” or not publicly tracked

> 25% of the activity of transport & energy vessels is missing from public tracking systems (GFW)

#OceanJustice #MultibeingOcean #BiodiversityCrisis #OceanCrisis
#Extractivism
theguardian.com/environment/20…

🛢️🛢️Microfibres = petroleum 🛢️🛢️
So too discarded fishing gear & many other plastics settling in the blood & bodies of marine beings.
‼️🐳 🦐🐠Microfibres’ ubiquity = planetary oil spill🐟🦑🌊 ‼️
#fossilfuel #Extractivism
#OceanJustice

A 🌪️ Shell 🌪️sponsored weather report this New Year’s Day 2024… no joke. What’s the strategy? #Shell trying to desensitise link between intense weather events, #FossilFuel & #ClimateCrisis ? #Jasper #WarmingOcean #OceanJustice
Are you kidding ⁦Channel9⁩? 🌪️

’Extinction greenwashing’: supermarkets target of ACCC complaint over misleading salmon claims

Environmental Defenders Office

edo.org.au/2023/12/05/ext…

🔥Resist, Persist: Gender, Climate & Colonialism
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art & Barbican Centre symposium explores bonds between gender & enviro justice. Looking forward to my conversation with curator/writer Camilia Marambio about ‘Sandcastles: A Queerfemme Proposition on Cancer Ecologies’

Observers are banned from some meetings, journalists are prevented from entering the negotiations building where the fate of the common heritage of humankind is being discussed, and the ISBA-HQ Secretary General Michael Lodge talks about their 'dedication to transparency'.