📢 We're (co)organising 2⃣ side-events at Our Ocean Greece 📍 Athens, so pop by on April 16th & find out more on “Food security: The role of sustainable aquatic blue foods in the green transition” & “High Ambition & Partnerships for the High Seas”.
More ℹ️: shorturl.at/EIO19

A year ago I decided to buy a camera & learn to shoot documentaries.

While scientists are terrible at communicating... I thought the best use of my time was to share the stories of these amazing Ocean champions with all of you🌊

youtu.be/WcjmEDZWOAA

#GenerationRestoration

New species disvocered again! 'Ancient glass sponges. A Barbie-pink sea pig sauntering along the seafloor. A transparent unicumber hovering in the depths.' Time to #StopDeepSeaMining Thanks to CNN for covering these amazing findings! edition.cnn.com/2024/04/02/wor…

🔴Live from the satellite event: The UN Ocean Decade & the new Agreement for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of #BBNJ : Opportunities to support ratification and implementation with our friends of IUCN Ocean Team & IDDRI & High Seas Alliance & DOSI on stage 🤗

The protection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has been further boosted by the addition of 140 islands within the marine park to QLDs protected areas estate. Lands secured under this project contain significant conservation values, ensuring ecological values are preserved. Qld Park Alerts

📌Career Opportunity at WIOMSA

WIOMSA is recruiting a Project Coordinator for the WIO Seagrass Mapping project to lead and manage all aspects of the project, including planning, implementation, coordination with partners, and reporting.

RISE against #GBV - Resilient, Inclusive, Sustainable Environments - a fund supporting environmentalism to understand and address ways gender-based violence linked to environmentalism can affect safety of women+girls engaging in environmental roles
Women in Ocean Science Mission Blue

2 DAYS TO GO: Sign up for the #OceanPanel Blue Paper Launch Event @ the #OceanDecade Conference in Barcelona.

📆 11th April
🕔 18:15-19:45 CEST

Join this critical conversation on the relationships between ocean health & human health below 👇🌊
bit.ly/43vQrON

Tomorrow at #OceanDecade24 , Barcelona, be there #ForCoral and #ForPeople 👇🏾

icriforum.org/events/the-cor…

For two unique AND vital ecosystems
👉🏾 #CoralReefBreakthrough 🪸and
👉 #MangroveBreakthrough 🌳
both give roadmaps to preservation.

Ocean Panel EU Climate Action High-Level Climate Champions

📢 We have extended the closing date to the 14th of April.

Apply now to join our communications team in Malaga: hrms.iucn.org/iresy/index.cf…

Janaka De Silva (IUCN Ocean Team) at Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPW) workshop in London last week with LRF Heritage & Education Centre and others,

representing IUCN to support growing global understanding 🔎🔬and action to cut the red wire✂️of this massive ticking time bomb💣
(not the blue one!🔦)

I mean the eclipse today was pretty cool, but today was *also* the day that Belize officially submitted its instrument of ratification to the UN and become the 3rd country to formally ratify the #BBNJ agreement. Congratulations, Belize! 🇧🇿🌊🐳

35th European Cetacean Society conference opens today in Catania, Sicily with a focus on marine mammals & human activities — conservation esp in coastal areas. #ECS2024 savingoceans Marine Mammal Commission European Cetacean Society Marine Mammalogy IUCN Ocean Team IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN-CetaceanSG mmpatf…

#OceanDecade24

#OceanDecade24 'The Decade and the Deep', celebrating 20 years of great DSCC work!

Pictured there, Peter Thomson Richard Brisius Dan Hikuroa Sian Owen and Lisa Levin filling #Relay4Nature baton with ocean messages before it sails with The Ocean Race to Our Ocean Greece

Heads of State, government representatives, United Nations leaders, and inspiring global ocean voices open #OceanDecade 24 , highlighting the role of the #OceanDecade in the global sustainable development agenda.

Follow updates here or tune in to the livestream: ow.ly/F1s250RbXTA

The 2024 Ocean Decade Conference starts today! 🌊🙌

Together, we'll open a new chapter for global ocean action to deliver the science we need for the ocean we want.

Join the conversation with #OceanDecade24 . Not in Barcelona? Tune in to the livestream: ow.ly/aTyt50RbXXr

“...we do know [...] implications of seabed mining are going to be quite severe. Science is already able to say be prepared for large-scale devastation, particularly on the seabed.” Pradeep Singh (@RIFS_Potsdam and IUCN-WCEL (World Commission on Environmental Law))

IUCN Rashid Sumaila japantimes.co.jp/environment/20…

Excellent The Japan Times article on #DeepSeaMining adds Japan govt view:
At ISBA-HQ meeting, Foreign Minister 上川 陽子　KAMIKAWA Yoko emphasized regulations that take into account conservation of the marine environment.

Dona Bertarelli IUCN Asia DOSI japantimes.co.jp/environment/20…