Bababag Island, Papua New Guinea – This week tribal villagers from Bagabag Island in Madang Province called on the government and all exploration and mining companies doing business in Papua New Guinea to stop pushing for the sea bed mining, a controversial new mining method. The villagers formally lodged their concerns and protests by running an advertisement in the national paper.
The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, almost extinct in the 80s, is slowly recovering from years of poaching in Mexico prior to 1978 and drowning in shrimp trawls in US waters before the Turtle Excluder Device was required by federal law.
(New York)— The world’s most critically endangered sea turtle, the Pacific leatherback, will be highlighted this week at the eighth meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea meeting in New York, as conservation groups call for the UN to implement a new Pacific wide network of Marine Protected Areas in an effort to bring the species back from the brink of extinction.
Proposed Permit for Deadly Nets off California and Oregon Denied San Francisco, CA — Under pressure from scientists and conservation groups, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) denied a proposal…
Last May 9th, the Constitutional Court ordered the suspension of execution of the project to install tuna farms (Granjas Atuneras de Golfito S.A.) in Costa Rica’s South Pacific region, until…
Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) is taking part for the second year running in the Marin Human Race, Saturday May 12th, 2007 at Marin Center Fairgrounds. TIRN staff and volunteers…
Canada Bans Mercury-Laden Fish from Store Shelves: US FDA Urged to Take Similar Action Yesterday, Health Canada announced its new policy to protect consumers from mercury contaminated fish. In addition…
Las Baulas National Marine Park Threatened by Unsustainable Infrastructure Development Over 200 sea turtle scientists and conservationists are adding their voices to the international call urging the President of Costa…
Paola Bouley unscrews the lid on the fifth in a line of bulging plastic barrels behind the storage shed and leans forward, peering into its murky depth. “This is last…
Environmental, scientific, sporting and angling organizations from all regions of the country today took concrete steps to further press President Bush, and seven of his Cabinet officers, on global warming…
