OceanCare News
Multilateralism at Work: United Nations’ deliberations on a Global Pact for the Environment
Nairobi, Kenya, March 21st 2019. Over the course of the past three days, delegates and stakeholders have come together at the United Nations in Nairobi to address the fragmentation, lack of coherence, and general inadequacy of international environmental law. In part,...
read moreTyranny of the Minority Slows International Progress on Addressing Plastic Pollution
Nairobi, Kenya, March 15 2019. At the 4th session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-4), member states of the UN Environment Programme failed to meet expectations to confront the ever-growing plastic-pollution crisis threatening our waterways,...
read moreWe mourn for Joanna Toole, our dear colleague and friend
Dear friends and colleagues, Today we mourn the loss of Joanna Toole. There is so much that is beautiful about Joanna, it’s difficult to express her soul in mere words. Perhaps it’s the heart that is more intuitive at times like these—able to register the connections...
read moreBribable science? A millionaire seals the fate of hundreds of fin whales!
Iceland, one of the last countries still catching whales in defiance of the international whaling moratorium, has been hunting fin whales and minke whales for many years, attributing quotas to themselves. Last year the self-granted 5-year fin whaling quota had expired...
read more„A Feather to Kill“ nominated for Living Oceans Film Showcase
The 50-minute documentary about the illegal dolphin hunt off the coast of Peru is gaining global attention. The secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)...
read moreWe mourn the loss of a true champion
Wädenswil/Vienna/Kangaroo Island, 29th January 2019 Dear family and friends of Bradnee Chambers,Dear CMS-Team, The news about the passing of Bradnee Chambers on January 23rd 2019 was a shock that has hits us without comparison. It is hard news to accept, and leaves us...
read moreNoise reduction required in European waters!
Brussels, 24th January 2019 - Member States of the European Union are set to fail to protect marine wildlife from the impacts of intense underwater noise levels by 2020, despite a requirement to do so under EU marine law. This is the conclusion of a report reviewing...
read moreJapan leaves International Whaling Commission!
Wädenswil, 26th December 2018. It is official. In a press conference today, the Japanese government confirmed that it is going to resume commercial whaling with effect from 1st July 2019, as their membership to the IWC will officially end 30th June. Commercial whaling...
read moreIs Japan serious? Rumours are spreading that Japan might leave the International Whaling Commission
Wädenswil, 20 December 2018. According to Japanese news agency Kyodo News, the Japanese government intends to leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and to start commercial whaling in coastal waters. According to the agency, no commercial whaling activities...
read more“Our Blue Lung”
There is a commitment by the Member States of the European Union to achieve clean and healthy seas by the year 2020. This objective has been adopted via a Directive in 2008. Ten years later we know that governments will fail. It is again up to the civil society to...
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