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This Month's Featured Project

The Deep Sea Mining Campaign is an association of NGOs and citizens from Australia, Papua New Guinea and Canada concerned about the likely impact of DSM on marine and coastal ecosystems and communities. The goal of the campaign is to develop an active, broadbased and informed Civil Society response to Deep Sea Mining in the Pacific
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Looking for an innovative way to offset greenhouse gas emissions? The Ocean Foundation's SeaGrass Grow! program offers opportunities to naturally offset greenhouse gas emissions in the ocean — known as "Blue Carbon."

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NEWS


Conservationists decry shark finning loophole

 

 

Conservationists are decrying a move by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to loosen what critics say is already a lax restriction on shark finning, the controversial practice of slicing the fins off and discarding the body at sea. Sonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International, called the...

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