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European Union Member States Condemn Faroe Islands Drive Hunts

by OceanCare | 21/12/2021 | Media Release

Wädenswil/Switzerland, 21. December 2021. In recent decades, the European Union Member States have remained largely silent on the killing of small cetaceans in the Faroe Islands, shying away from criticising a brutal and obsolete tradition. Today marks a turn-around...

About Christmas and Crowdfunding for whale killing, Japan’s whaling continues

by OceanCare | 21/12/2021 | Blog

Three years have passed since Japan announced it would leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the global organisation which regulates whaling and the conservation of whale populations, and which banned commercial whaling worldwide in 1986. The announcement...

Shipping needs to slow down to reach climate targets faster

by OceanCare | 08/11/2021 | News

While OceanCare welcomes the “Declaration on Zero Emission Shipping by 2050” signed on the 1st of November 2021 by 14 countries at the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 (COP26) in Glasgow and the Call to Action for Shipping Decarbonization which was launched a month...

IUCN World Conservation Congress adopts moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining

by OceanCare | 10/09/2021 | News

A big win for the protection of our oceans: Motion 069 on “Protection of deep-ocean ecosystems and biodiversity through a moratorium on seabed mining” was adopted at the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress (IUCN WCC) with an...

Is the European Union doing enough to protect marine biodiversity in the high seas treaty negotiations?

by OceanCare | 09/08/2021 | Blog

Spain must step up and get the EU to revise its worrying stance on environmental impact assessment of activities that may cause transboundary pollution in the negotiations on the UN treaty on the governance of the high seas. Spain, as a country with a long maritime...

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