OceanCare Blog
Japan’s Fixed Net Whaling
~Leah Lemieux Over Christmas of 2020, Japanese activists stationed in Taiji became aware that a young Minke whale approximately 5m, had become trapped in fixed nets just offshore from the town harbor. Like much of Japan’s coastline, the Taiji coast is a complicated...
Virtual diplomacy – the new frontiers of the digital world
Empty conference rooms, but digital diplomacy in full swing The COVID pandemic has undoubtedly slowed down diplomacy. However, it has not brought diplomacy to a standstill. On the contrary: without the physical limitations of travelling to a conference, the frequency...
SaveMoby-Project – sperm whale research in Greece in summer 2020
Dr. Alexandros Frantzis, scientific director of the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute, has been studying Greek waters and their wildlife for more than 25 years. In 1998 he made a spectacular discovery: There was a population of about 200 sperm whales living just a...
An Urgent Reminder: Climate Change As A Security Threat
When scientists first unravelled the evidence of human-induced changes to the environment in the 1970s it was in most cases dismissed as an environmental issue only worthy of marginal attention. It was certainly not until the 1990s that the international community...
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...
Making an educated choice
Only 50 years ago, humans started to realize that we have an effect on our planet. Since then, scientists, policymakers, NGOs and activists have been trying to push people towards change, trying to open our eyes to the fact that mother nature might not be as resilient...
Spain must co-Lead post-pandemic green economy recovery
In June 2018, a breath of fresh air came into the Spanish politics, an air, for the first time in many years, with a sweet green aroma. The new government, chaired by the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE, social-democrats), placed the fight against climate change...
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Certainly an obstacle, but it should not prevent further progress towards protecting the ocean.
The fourth and final intergovernmental conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction...
Green New Human
Individuals aware of the climate and ecological breakdown Some months ago, OceanCare encouraged me to experiment freely with alternative ways of communicating some of the lessons I learned during my career as a marine conservation biologist. I came up with a set of...
Less ocean noise as a contribution to climate protection
Next Monday, 23 September 2019, hundreds of government representatives, diplomats, representatives of multilateral agreements and organisations, the private sector and civil society will gather in New York on the occasion of the Climate Action Summit convened by UN...