Our Marine Conservation Action Fund (MCAF) is celebrating 25 years of supporting community-based ocean conservation efforts worldwide! 🎉 MCAF is a small-grants and fellowship program that provides support for projects spearheaded by local conservation leaders in low- and middle-income countries around the globe. Since its inception in 1999, it has funded 230 projects in 60 countries! Through this work, we are honored to support conservation leaders who are creating solutions that benefit ocean health and their local communities. Learn more about the program and its future in this Q&A with program director Elizabeth Stephenson: https://bit.ly/3VL0c88 📸: Misión Tiburón/David Garcia; Rolex/Eva Diallo; Rolex/Francois Schoer #MCAF #MCAFNEAq #MarineConservationActionFund
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Senior investigative journalist • I cover Antarctic geopolitics and African conservation • 1st South African 👱♀️ journalist to oversummer in Antarctica • Based in Cape Town, Africa's polar gateway
The #AntarcticTreatySystem (ATS) represents the best humanity has achieved by devoting a whole region to peace and science. We need more, not less, of this kind of system. Antarctic and Southern Ocean scientists are in dire need of more investment to fund their hero's work as canaries in the coalmine. But it's snow secret that the ATS leaves a lot to be desired through, among others: - Unchallenged oil and gas surveys in a climate engine that is approaching tipping points as a result of our consumption of these things (see: https://lnkd.in/dmdkraPn); - Swallowed stations and legacy waste that take consultative parties inexcusable decades to clean up: https://lnkd.in/dpt5xu3P (yes, removal is difficult but you have commitments under the #MadridProtocol); - A lack of urgency among the mid-level diplomats tasked with ratifying critical decisions (more here: https://lnkd.in/dv4nUX3z); - From 2048, a modifiable mining ban (https://lnkd.in/dv4nUX3z); - Underwater noise: https://lnkd.in/dSjk6CNS; - The apparent weaponisation of endangered #emperorpenguins as a geopolitical pawn by quoting amateur blogs on #polarbears that have literally nothing to do with Antarctica. As morbidly droll as this issue is in some ways, it also sets a concerning precedent about tabling bogus research in a system that acts as a vanguard for scientific investigation. More here: https://lnkd.in/dp5ZDN7H. The ATS makes political statements at annual meetings, which in the case of consultative party Russia's illegal invasion of consultative party Ukraine remains necessary, but it has yet to explicitly call out China's fake polar bear data. Why be accountable when you make little to no attempt to include media at annual meetings and don't hold press conferences about a region that is global heritage? And so on: https://lnkd.in/dQqy8Sun As the Antarctic faces human-caused change, polar civil servants are sleepwalking into disaster. At Daily Maverick we have reported on these matters because it is the media's job to take away the excuse of saying, 'I did not know.' It will be interesting to see how Antarctic Rights, and possibly others, attempt to offer complementary legal representation that can help the Antarctic Treaty System keep doing what it does. But in updated ways that match the scale of transformation facing this irreplaceable 10% of the planet.
🌟🚀 Check out our progress and ambitions on the Antarctic Rights Initiative! 📊 Our strategy timeline showcases key milestones, progress, and objectives as we work towards safeguarding Antarctica's future. From building alliances to ratifying the Declaration, every step brings us closer to our goal of ensuring Antarctica's legal recognition and protection. Join us on this journey of conservation and advocacy for one of our planet's most precious ecosystems.🌍💙 🔗Read the Declaration and Explanatory Memo here: https://lnkd.in/dGAdUCxa. #AntarcticRights #Conservation #ProtectOurPlanet #EnvironmentalAdvocacy #Antarctica #LegalRecognition
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It's Marine Protected Areas Day! #MPADay While the level of protection among MPAs can vary greatly, they've proven effective in conserving marine life, #biodiversity, and cultural heritage. Read about Safina Center Fellow Belén Garcia Ovide's push to protect #Iceland's waters by establishing the country's first MPA: https://lnkd.in/exm566Yy
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Many of us are best acquainted with our oceans from our perspective on the beach, where shorebirds, like the Wilson’s Plover, skitter about and Black Skimmers fly overhead, as illustrated here by Chris Vest. We can hardly imagine the vastness of the world's oceans, much less experience them as a seabird does, traveling thousands of miles over open water each year. But oceans are much more than the tiny slivers most of us experience at their edges. Oceans — from sandy beaches to deep-sea environments — are habitats. Support ABC's Marine Program in our efforts to research and implement strategies for seabird and shorebird conservation by visiting https://bit.ly/46jcl9v.
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From kelp to sharks, the Pacific Ocean plays a significant role in our natural environment at PLNU. Scientists and marine life advocates share the importance of being good stewards to our environment. https://lnkd.in/gdDt9Vxz
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In a significant boost to marine conservation efforts, the University of Western Australia and First Nations partners have been $650,000 for two projects to help Traditional Owner groups better monitor and manage the health of Australia marine parks, through sharing their Sea Country knowledge. To read the full article as reported by David Prestipino for National Indigenous Times please click on the link in the comments section below. #seacountry #traditionalowners #marineparks #award #indigenousknowledge #marineconservation #westernaustralia
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🔍 Diving deeper into ocean conservation news revealed some eye-opening insights! Did you know that a recent article highlighted the remarkable success of a Species Action Plan for Angelsharks in the Mediterranean Sea? 🌊 Taking small steps collectively can lead to significant victories for marine life! 🦈 Discover more about this impressive achievement and how it's reshaping conservation efforts. https://lnkd.in/gRUYp5GJ
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From kelp to sharks, the Pacific Ocean plays a significant role in our natural environment at PLNU. Scientists and marine life advocates share the importance of being good stewards to our environment. https://lnkd.in/gdDt9Vxz
Deep Understanding
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The journey that inspired the mission… ⬇️ Today marks the 21st anniversary of Pen Hadow’s achievement of the solo trek, without resupply, from Canada to the North Pole in 2003. Until this day, no one else has replicated Pen’s achievement, a feat which remains unique due to the extreme difficulty and dangers involved in such an expedition. Not least because he found it necessary to swim so often (in an immersion suit) between the ice flows, this incredible accomplishment opened Pen’s eyes to the rapid environmental changes taking place in the Arctic Ocean, and just how urgently it needed protecting. But what does this have to do with us here at the 90 North Foundation? In the years since completing his North Pole mission, he has worked tirelessly in founding, spearheading and solidifying our mission here at the 90 North Foundation: to protect the highly vulnerable biodiversity in the Arctic Ocean, particularly the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO), from increasing threats. These threats, many of which come from increased commercial vessel activity (such as shipping, fishing, mining and tourism) endanger the unique ecosystems of the CAO and have broader implications for global climate and environmental health. Marine research, public education and conservation advocacy are now urgently needed to protect the region’s threatened wildlife, habitat and ecosystem services. 🤝 Together with our supportive partners, we’re working hard to educate, advocate, and research solutions regarding the protection of this fragile region. To find out more, take a look at our profile, or visit our website - https://lnkd.in/e79RfhZx 🔗 Left image taken by the fantastic Martin Hartley during training at Resolute Bay, Canada. Pictured right is the front cover of The Times (Tuesday 20th May, 2003) featuring Pen’s achievement. #Protect90North
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Check out this video of Rafid Shidqi, Co-Founder and Director of Thresher Shark Indonesia and a New England Aquarium MCAF Fellow, to hear about TSI, its mission, and its successes!
Watch the short video of our Co-Founder and Director Rafid Shidqi in Inspiring Asia 2023. Rafid was awarded MAC3 Impact Conservation Scholar in 2020 while studying at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in Coastal Science and Policy. The scholarship enabled him to conduct the first comprehensive acoustic and satellite movement studies of thresher sharks in Alor. One of the achievements of the study was that it informed the revision of Alor Marine Protected Area zonation for thresher sharks! Inspiring Asia is one of the annual celebrations for inspiring people who are making a difference in Asia; the event was hosted in Singapore last year 2023. #MAC3Conservation Sarah Eminhizer Anne Kapuscinski Don Croll See the video here to learn about our journey: https://lnkd.in/etsMCrZf
Deep Guardians: Rafid’s Thresher Shark Journey
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Meet Kyah Chewying: surfacing sea secrets - CSIRO: Kyah CHEWYING is bringing Indigenous perspectives to her science to protect our oceans. https://lnkd.in/eZUFRmqG
Meet Kyah Chewying: surfacing sea secrets
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