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My Journey to Ghost Gear
Jenna Schwerzmann is the first Joanna Toole Intern. Dedicated to Joanna Toole, who was a champion in marine conservation and animal welfare and tragically lost her life in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash. The internship is hosted by Ocean Conservancy, the Center for Coastal Studies, the Joanna Toole Foundation and OceanCare, and seeks to support women in conservation.
Annual report 2019
The last few months have been challenging for all of us. Our commitment to protect our oceans, however, remains unchanged. What we have been able to achieve last year, you will find in our annual report.
Lack of national political will is driving European seas to the brink
Today, the European Commission published a report assessing the progress with the implementation of the EU’s Marine Directive [1], adopted in 2008. The report comes out just as the European Environment Agency paints a dire picture of the state of European seas in its...
June 8th: World Oceans Day – Increasing sustainability in shipping traffic with more innovation and less speed
Wädenswil, 3 June 2020: The United Nations celebrate “World Oceans Day” on the 8th of June. This year’s theme is “Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean”. On this occasion, the international marine conservation organisation OceanCare introduces the interdisciplinary...
Healthy oceans for a healthy planet
Covid-19, a string of letters and numbers none of us had heard of a few months ago, and yet now almost everyone on the planet has them ingrained on their minds. Livelihoods, families, societies, all have been radically changed in a relatively short space of time. Jobs...