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🚨 BREAKING: The 28 oil & gas exploration licences we legally challenged have just been ruled lawful by the High Court. This means exploration can go ahead, despite 3/4 of them sitting inside marine PROTECTED areas - wildlife havens home to porpoises, puffins & seals 🐬 @ChrisGPackham @GreenJennyJones @DeborahMeaden @OceanaUK
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We must #EndOverfishing now!
What is the government waiting for to set sustainable catch limits? The complete collapse of key fish stocks? It's time to follow the science.
We've just published a new report on UK fish populations showing overfishing is emptying our seas @OceanaUK
📩 Tell the PM to ACT NOW: act.oceana.org/page/178303/d…
@DeborahMeaden @ChrisGPackham @GreenJennyJones @Seasaver @BlueEarthSummit @MeganMcCubbin @GreenpeaceUK @oceana
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The water & sewage scandal is getting worse.
Maybe we could enforce laws instead of protecting private profits?
“A national disgrace”
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Destructive bottom trawling is STILL taking place in most UK marine protected areas. It's obscene! 😡❌
The govt has finally proposed bans in 41 sites, but it's not final. They want to hear from the public first. 🗣️
👉WE NEED YOUR VOICE:
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📢 This #WorldOceanDay, we demand action for our seas: BAN bottom trawling in marine protected areas. 🌊
Destructive bottom trawling is STILL going on in most of our marine protected areas. 🚨
Let's tell them the world is watching and the time is now. ⏰
@OceanaUK @oceana
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Why on earth can’t our government ban flushing wet wipes & force manufacturers to pay for environmental clean ups in the UK? In fact, why can’t they ban a whole range of single-use plastics that pollute almost every natural space we have left?
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It’s completely incomprehensible that one of the most destructive ways of fishing is permitted in Marine Protected Areas. What exactly are these areas protected from? Please contact @SteveReedMP to urge action on this crucial issue to protect & restore our seas. @OceanaUK
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UPDATE: 10,000+ emails sent to @SteveReedMP demanding a #BottomTrawling ban in marine protected areas.
The public want to see destructive fishing outlawed in marine sanctuaries.
Please sign & share the @OceanaUK e-action if you haven't yet. 💪
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Bottom trawling is DESTROYING marine protected areas. ❌
But YOU can help take action against this hypocrisy. Email Secretary of State Steve Reed to demand an end to bottom trawling in ocean havens 👇
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@OceanaUK @oceana @onlyone @ChrisGPackham
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Sir David Attenborough's new doc Ocean launches next week, & #BottomTrawling is front & centre as one of the most terrifying threats facing our seas.🪸 These vessels tear up the seabed with such force “the trails of destruction can be seen from space@ocea
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Good to talk to @JohnKerry on the tenth anniversary of the @OurOceanOOC and hear more about the commitments & impacts it has driven to protect the global ocean, tackle climate change, & support thriving marine life & communities. @oceana @OceanaUK
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For every $ invested in Marine Protected Areas returns $5 in economic benefits; protecting ecosystems, coastal communities & livelihoods, safeguarding fisheries, delivering climate resilience @DrRashidSumaila @OurOceanOOC @oceana 🐋🌊🌎
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Ocean waters are the source of life on the planet. The work to save the ocean from man made catastrophe is perhaps our greatest challenge. @JohnKerry @OurOceanOOC @oceana
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It’s a crucial time for protecting the global ocean. @ThomsonFiji opening at @OurOceanOOC urging bold action to deliver strong Marine Protected Areas, action to end overfishing, tackle plastic pollution & deliver the ocean positive transition to renewable energy. @oceana
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I’m heading to the @OurOceanOOC to talk about @oceana campaigns and how new technology, open data & satellite tracking can accelerate policy & regulation protection to stop ocean pollution & safeguard Marine Protected Areas. @OceanaUK @GlobalFishWatch @SkyTruth
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Given the extent to which water companies have misled the public & regulators over sewage spills, which water company boss & executives are going to prison first then?
@Feargal_Sharkey @GreenJennyJones @MattStaniek @RiverActionUK @sascampaigns
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism,
Every action has a reaction.
“The economic value of entire regions – coastal, arid, wildfire-prone – will begin to vanish from financial ledgers. Markets will reprice, rapidly and brutally. This is what a climate-driven market failure looks like.”
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We urgently need to ban bottom trawl-fishing in the UK's marine protected areas. This industry
❌ Indiscriminately harms marine wildlife
❌ Destroys vital habitat from corals to seagrass
❌ Deepens the climate crisis
➡️81% of the British public support a ban. @OceanaUK
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🚨 TODAY, we take the UK government to court.
They handed out 31 reckless oil & gas licences - some inside marine protected areas - without proper checks. ❌
This is a fight for our ocean, marine life & climate. We won’t back down. Who’s with us? ✊
Follow @OceanaUK for updates. #OceanVsOil 🌊⚖️
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Governments must ban destructive bottom-trawling in Marine Protected Areas to allow marine life, fish populations & ecosystems to thrive. Which country will step up next?
@oceana @OceanaUK
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We all depend on clean & healthy water. This World Water Day join the call to end the polluting & profiteering by Big Water. The scam of privatisation has failed. Time to protect our rivers, seas & pockets.
Ask your MP to attend @labourlewis' Water Bill debate on 28 March
#WorldWaterDay
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I stand with Greenpeace ✊🌍
What a total injustice. Big Oil deploying bullying litigation tactics to silence environmental activists. A jury made up of multiple individuals linked to the oil industry. A complete sham & set up.
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Stoked to see one of my protest surfboards on display at the brilliant @Cornwall_Museum - it has seen some big national protests against pollution, and some great waves! 🤙🪧✊🌊
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🚨 BREAKING! Just dropped: new bombshell map for the Ocean Alliance, exposing oil pollution in UK seas. 💣 And it’s BAD.
Big Oil’s dirty secret? A steady stream of spills poisoning our ocean.
Don’t let Big Oil hide the truth! Share this NOW. 📢
👉stopoffshoredrilling.org.uk/…
Then demand change. ✊
👉act.oceana.org/page/165588/a…
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Rosebank oilfield decision ruled unlawful by Edinburgh court!!
Huge win for the climate, people & planet! 🌍🐋💙🙌👏
Kudos to @StopCambo @GreenpeaceUK @tessakhan & all the campaigners, individuals & orgs that helped.
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There we have it. The customer is bailing out the privatised water industry for the work they failed to do with the money we gave them before.
@Feargal_Sharkey @GreenJennyJones @MattStaniek
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So they want the tax payer to wipe the debt slate clean so they can start raking in the private profits again. Nationalise the debt. Privatise the profit. Charlatans.
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Humpback whales back in Britain, with rise in sightings from Kent to Isles of Scilly.
@OceanaUK @oceana
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Window to stop decline of England’s nature closing fast.
“…the oceans around England likely to miss their target of being in good ecological status by 2027 as a result of pressures including overfishing and pollution”
@OceanaUK @oceana
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Daytime fox 🦊 padding past me on my lunchtime through Little Venice @ChrisGPackham
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Back the Climate and Nature Bill—don’t block it!
💚 A Bill for prosperity and wellbeing.
🫂 A Bill for people and communities across the UK.
🌎 A Bill to restore nature and tackle climate change.
Prime Minister, @Keir_Starmer — will you back the #CANBill on 24 January?
@zerohour_uk @OceanaUK @oceana
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‘Pristine Environments Protect Us’
Check out my latest column on deep sea mining & the need to #DefendTheDeep in the latest issue of @Oceano_mag
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@DeepSeaConserve @GreenpeaceUK @GreenJennyJones @LouisaCasson @Seasaver @Bluemarinef @domdyer70
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Ocean & Climate Victory ✊✌️🌊🐋💙
The US President is to prohibit future oil and gas leasing across parts of the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea.
@oceana @PressOceana @StopCambo @OceanaUK
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UK electricity cleanest ever in 2024, with record 58% from low-carbon sources.
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Stoked! Mission accomplished! 150/150 surfs in 2024 chalked up today. Perfect, empty, lefts at one of my favourite spots. 🎯💙🌊🤙🙏✊ #LifeBalance #SurfGoals @CarveMag @finisterre
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Some whales are more than 100 years old, smashing previously estimated life expectancies, according to new research. 🐋 🐋
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🌊 Marine protected areas critical to #ocean health AND fisheries‼️
Protected waters provide a spillover benefit to #fisheries, even for highly migratory species like tuna.
@undercur @oceana @OceanaUK
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Paul Watson is Free! 🐋🌊✊
Denmark 🇩🇰 refuses to extradite Paul Watson to Japan.🇯🇵
@CaptPaulWatson @SeaShepherdFran
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All to enable & maximise the profits of private water companies.
A 35 year long swindle.
Renationalisation is ultimately the only real solution.
@We_OwnIt @GreenJennyJones
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Coca-Cola ‘one of the world’s most polluting brands when it comes to plastic waste’ apparently abandons its 2030 pledges in ‘masterclass of greenwashing’. A company that seems to consistently deceive environmental NGOs & activists to protect its profits.
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