CONSERVATION PROJECTS

CURRENT PROJECTS

1. Banning all commercial sales of unsustainable fish stocks

2. Pressing for game fishing to become totally catch and release

3. Examining long-lining and drift-netting and its effects, particularly on pelagic seabirds

4. Looking into the negative role and impact of marine fish farming

5. Pressurising governments to ban the mass slaughter of sharks for 'shark fin soup'

6. Putting aside 25% of the worlds seas and oceans as dedicated marine protected areas (MPA's)

7. A complete ban on so-called 'scientific whaling'

8. Striving always for a world where marine wildlife is treated no differently from wildlife on land

LONG TERM PROJECTS LIKELY TO BENEFIT MARINE BIO-DIVERSITY

1. Inventorying coastal ecosystems, species, and biological processes

2. Establishing marine protected areas (MPAs)

3. Developing environmentally sound fishing practices

4. Establishing cross border conservation networks

5. Educating people about the sea

6. Training officials who permit and monitor development projects

7. Long-term monitoring in marine ecosystems

8. Restoring marine ecosystems

9. Constructing and monitoring environmentally sound sewage treatment facilities

10. Constructing port/marina facilities for dealing with ship-board waste