Fact: 90% of the world's most bottom-trawled seas are in Europe.⁠

Fact: The 🇪🇺 allows it in 'protected' waters.

Fact: We can help end this marine decimation. ✊🏾 ⁠

Add your name here & tell the EU to #BanBottomTrawling ! 👉 seas-at-risk.org/join-the-movem… onlyone Oceana in Europe

The #EuropeanParliament is on a roll in its last week! Yesterday adoption of strong measures to reduce plastic pellet pollution, today the High Seas treaty!🥳

Imagine a giant net sweeps through your neighborhood demolishing everything in its path. This is what’s happening to marine life 🦈 & ecosystems 🪸 in EU 'protected' waters due to bottom trawling.
Enough is enough 🙅🏾
Call on the EU to #BanBottomTrawling ➡️ seas-at-risk.org/join-the-movem…

It's the BIG day!
Today European Parliament has the chance to stop chronic pellet pollution with binding, sweeping measures. 💪

From the south in Sicily 🇮🇹 to the North Sea 🇳🇱 the results from our #GreatGlobalNurdleHunt show why we need to #BeatPelletPollution NOW 👀

✏️ Sign the petition for EU action on plastic pellets! action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-03-p…

📢 We urge the EU to step up in the fight against microplastic pollution by adopting a comprehensive and ambitious Regulation on preventing pellet losses.

Plastic pellets may be small, but they are a big environmental problem.

Tomorrow, European Parliament can help by voting through an ambitious proposal to #BeatPelletPollution . #EarthDay

It's #EarthDay24 . Time for a #GreatGlobalNurdleHunt to draw attention to #pelletpolution .
56 of those little bastards on the high tide line along a 1.5km stretch of the Lek River in Vianen, Netherlands this afternoon.
#beatpelletpollution #plastictreaty

On #EarthDay let’s explore what the EU needs to do to #BreakFreeFromPlastic !

Europe's plastic pollution levels are out of control. To combat this crisis, we must slash plastic production and consumption! European Parliament

Find out how 📽️ #PlanetvsPlastics
youtube.com/watch?v=Kqb8qF…

#DYK ? 🤔Nearly 446k tonnes of plastic pellets enter the environment yearly! 🤯We're urging
European Parliament to adopt measures to keep pellets out of #OurOcean and land. #BeatPelletPollution & join the #GreatGlobalNurdleHunt .

Check out our findings here: instagram.com/stories/highli…

This #EarthDay , we wanted to celebrate the #NatureRestorationLaw but 🇪🇺 govs failed to adopt it 👎🏾
We must #RestoreOcean & #RestoreNature if we want to fight the biodiversity & climate crises.
We had an agreement, EU Council & Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024. Respect it. Seal the deal! 🌍🌊

🔜 Less than 1 week until the United Nations convenes to work on a global plastics agreement at #INC4 .

Delegates have the chance to make history by demanding ambitious and legally binding measures to combat #PlasticPollution .

RT to spread the word! pew.org/44c4PMw

Happy #EarthDay ! 🌍🐙🐠

What better way to celebrate our planet than by protecting it and keeping it clean of #microplastics ? European Parliament, vote YES to #BeatPelletPollution this week! 🙌

Happy #EarthDay 🌎❤️

This year’s theme is #PlanetVsPlastics , but we think there’s no competition. We’re counting on European Parliament to champion 🏆 people and planet health by adopting the regulation on #plasticpellets tomorrow!

¡Únete a la búsqueda de pellets que organiza Seas At Risk!🌊

El 23 de abril, el Parlamento Europeo (cuenta archivada) votará medidas cruciales para prevenir la contaminación por #pellets . ¡Ayúdanos a garantizar que los eurodiputados votan a favor! #BeatPelletPollution

+Info:👉seas-at-risk.org/wp-content/upl…

The 🇪🇺 allows destructive fishing incl bottom trawling in its 'protected' waters. ⁠But where is most of this underwater destruction taking place? Find out in our graphics & join our appeal to *actually* protect EU seas & marine life!🪸🐙 #BanBottomTrawling
seas-at-risk.org/join-the-movem…

To celebrate #DeepDay on 7 May join us for an epic journey into the ocean's depths! 🌊 Together with #CinémaPalace in Brussels we're screening award-winning movie #DeepRising 🎥 & launching our new #DeepSeaMining report.
Get your tickets today! 🎟️
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