OceanCare News
Protecting the oceans is key for climate action
On the 23rd of September 2019 the UN will host the CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT. UN Secretary General António Guterres is asking leaders from governments, business and civil society to arrive with plans for addressing the global climate emergency. OceanCare will be present...
Alarming findings of our market study on microplastic in fish and other marine animals
More than 9 million tons of plastic enter the oceans every year. As most types of plastics are not biodegradable, the waste remains in the oceans for years or even decades. With an estimated 1% of the plastic staying afloat on the ocean surface, the bulk is drifting...
Urgent 2020 deadline: Fulfilling the duty of national governments to conserve and sustainably use the biological diversity of the high seas and deep seabed
From 19 to 30 August the nations of the world met at United Nations Headquarters in New York for the intergovernmental conference to negotiate a new international legally-binding agreement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and...
High-level Symposium on Underwater Noise
The International Symposium of the Jens-Peter und Betsy Schlüter-Foundation for Shipping and Environment Protection will take place on 10th of September 2019 in Hamburg. Experts from international organization and academic institutions will report on ocean noise and...
High Risk for the High Seas
New York, 21st August 2019: OceanCare calls on governments to strictly regulate ocean noise within the legally binding Instrument governing the High Seas currently under negotiation. To some, the Law of the Sea may seem dry, technical and even boring. Yet, the...
2020 rapidly approaching: pressure rises on governments to protect the High Seas
2020 rapidly approaching: pressure rises on governments to protect the High Seas New York, 19th August 2019: From Monday 19th of August, the United Nations headquarters in New York will host the Third (and penultimate) Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC)...
OceanCare alarmed by increasing number of dolphin and sperm whale deaths in the western Mediterranean Sea
In the last eight months, more than 30 dolphins and 20 sperm whales have been found dead along the coasts of the western Mediterranean, most of them between Sicily and Tuscany. This means that the number of deaths already exceeds the ones in the entire year 2018. The...
OceanCare-30 Anniversary
In 1989, during a dive off the Maldives, Sigrid Lüber had a life-changing encounter with a group of dolphins. This awe-inspiring moment created the catalyst for OceanCare. Supported by thousands of donors, volunteers and like-minded partners, the organisation works at...
Innovative hightech-project to save endangered whales from ship-strikes already started
Athens/Zurich, 17th July 2019: Today, the multinational interdisciplinary “SAvE Whales” project, which combines expertise from the fields of marine biology, underwater acoustics, applied mathematics, computer networking, informatics and real-time marine traffic data,...
Groups call on the European Commission to take action over huge number of cetacean deaths.
Thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales die in European waters, due to accidental capture in fisheries nets (bycatch). Today 22 environmental NGOs [1], led by Seas At Risk, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, ClientEarth and Coalition Clean Baltic, jointly called on...