Ocean Conservation News – 12/30/2022

Photo by Jolo Diaz from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/blue-turtles-on-brown-sand-3661926/

Action Day focuses on role of ocean in fighting climate change

https://sdg.iisd.org/news/action-day-focuses-on-role-of-ocean-in-fighting-climate-change/

Ocean and coastal solutions are scientifically proven and central to adaptation, resilience, and sustainable development, yet underfunded.

Southeast Asia’s biodiversity protection challenge, by the numbers

https://www.eco-business.com/news/southeast-asias-biodiversity-protection-challenge-by-the-numbers/

The world agreed to protect almost a third of nature areas on Earth at the COP15 biodiversity summit. But only 6 percent of pristine Southeast Asia is currently conserved.

Indonesia’s ‘essential’ mangroves, seagrass and corals remain unprotected

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/indonesias-essential-mangroves-seagrass-and-corals-remain-unprotected/

Much of Indonesia’s mangrove forests, seagrass beds and coral reefs fall outside protected areas, according to a recently published report.

Funding bill to ban fishing gear known to catch sea turtles, dolphins and more

https://environmentamerica.org/updates/funding-bill-to-ban-fishing-gear-known-to-catch-sea-turtles-dolphins-and-more/

Congress sets the stage for a phase-out of deadly drift gillnets nationwide.

Dive rescues fish ensnared in ‘deadly’ underwater plastic

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/ocean-plastic-sri-lanka-twitter-b2253063.html

The fish is seen lying on the ocean floor before a diver appears to coax it free from the clear plastic bag and it swims away – a grim reminder of the plastic pollution crisis in our oceans.

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