BREAKING 🚨 Govt has announced 31 NEW oil & gas licences🤯

21 of those are INSIDE our marine protected areas 🤯🤯☠️

HOW is this protection? Rigs & exploration kill wildlife, destroy habitats & pollute our seas, they have NO place in ocean havens.

RT to stop this being buried

📢BREAKING: Shell made £6 BLN in profit in the last 3 months. Whilst ocean warming reaches unprecedented levels & climate records break at inconceivable speed 🔥

Big Oil is plundering our planet & we're letting it happen. This must stop. 🌊🌍

Act now👉bit.ly/3SubqfV

🚨 By 2025, yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean will have been overfished for a decade.

This #WorldTunaDay Blue Marine is calling for a moratorium on the use drifting fish aggregating devices in the Indian Ocean to help yellow fin tuna species recover. Read more👇…

🌊Shining a light on tomorrow's ocean leaders 🏆🌊

This award spotlights young visionaries who are pioneering new pathways in ocean conservation. They have unwavering commitment and a fresh perspective, meet the shortlist 👉 ow.ly/ltBu50RgqTj

Breaking news: A huge wave of support today shown by UK and EU NGOs for the recent sandeel closures asking Scot Gov Marine Defra UK to maintain a strong position in light of EU challenge RSPB News BirdLife Europe & Central Asia Blue Marine Foundation Marine Conservation Society Oceana UK Wildlife and Countryside Link

✨🌊 New paper alert!! 🌊✨
I’m very pleased to announce that we have just published the first paper for my PhD in PeerJ Publishing ! peerj.com/articles/17091/
We compare the cost-effectiveness of two marine biomonitoring techniques, eDNA and BRUV, along the Sussex coast. #Marine #eDNA

The UK and Scottish governments have taken decisive action to save our seabirds by ending sandeel fishing in Scottish waters & the English North Sea.

We support this vital action and urge the EU to follow our lead, not block it. 🚨

Together, we can save our seabirds.

We've written to Mairi Gougeon Lorna Slater Finlay Carson MSP Maree Todd and Scot Gov Marine calling for the urgent protection of Gairloch herring spawning habitat.

Read our open letter here: bit.ly/herringopenlet…

#BringBacktheFish

Blue Marine is pleased to share that we are now receiving support from players of Postcode Lottery

The funding award of £400,000 will help us to restore the ocean to health by protecting and restoring marine life for people and the planet 🌍 🌊

The Ocean vs Big Oil 🚫⛽️🔥🐋🚨🌎
 
Join the Ocean Alliance Against Offshore Drilling today - stopoffshoredrilling.org.uk

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🏆 Celebrate our ocean advocates🏆

In an extraordinary display of commitment, creativity, and passion, this year's Public Awareness Award finalists have significantly advanced the cause of marine conservation.

Find out more about each finalist here 👉 bluemarinefoundation.com/2024/03/13/mee…

Massive congratulations to our friends at Open Seas.🙌

This proves that the Scottish Government are required to consider the impacts of harmful fishing on the environment.

We must protect Scotlands vital marine habitats and species from damaging fishing practices such as…

The Wild Oysters Project is going to be on TV!

Tonight, the BBC One Show will be bringing the story of oyster reef restoration to the nation.

Tune in tonight at 7pm on BBC1 or catch up on iPlayer.

As The Big Give #GreenMatchFund ends for another year we’re sending out a huge thank you to our supporters.

Your support will be instrumental in towards connecting local youth with the ocean, fostering sustainable seafood practices and ecotourism in the Aeolians. Thank you 💙

🎉 The inaugural gathering of the Ocean Alliance Against Offshore Drilling is happening down in Cornwall today!

✊ stopoffshoredrilling.org.uk 🌊

Our director Hugo Tagholm kicking things off 👇 Finisterre Oceana

Exciting news! We have been announced as a finalist for the Ocean Awards in the Innovation category. 🏆

We're honoured to be nominated for the award, organised by the Blue Marine Foundation and can't wait to hear the result in May. 🌊💙

bluemarinefoundation.com/2024/03/13/mee…

The Convex Seascape Survey are hiring a Postdoc Fellow to join the project at Mandela University in South Africa!

Fully funded three-year project, working w/ an international team contributing to our understanding of the oceans 🌊

Apply here➡️ bit.ly/PostdoctoralFe…

#hiring #conservationjobs