Press Releases

As EU celebrates 30 years of Natura 2000, NGOs call for these areas to be actually ‘protected’ and for an EU-wide trawl ban in them

24 February 2022

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

European Commission takes important first step towards protecting Baltic Sea harbour porpoise

18 February 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Multimedia

Putting together the puzzle pieces needed to stop the bycatch of protected dolphins

16 February 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

Call for Ambitious Revision of EU Fisheries Control Regulation to Protect Biodiversity and Climate

11 February 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Press Releases

More than half a million citizens demand action to save thousands of dolphins from fishing nets in France and Spain

10 February 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Publications

NGOs’ open letter – Call for Ambitious Revision of EU Fisheries Control Regulation to Protect Biodiversity and Climate

9 February 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Events

NGOs to hand over 461,000 petition signatures to end incidental catch of dolphins in EU waters 

4 February 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Publications

How EU Policy can Tackle Microplastic Pollution

2 February 2022

• Clean ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution

Press Releases

Global supply chain crisis is also a shipping emissions crisis; urgent action needed

28 January 2022

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

General News

Urgent action needed to tackle underwater noise pollution from ships

21 January 2022

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

General News

Environment groups call on shipping industry to tackle underwater noise pollution

17 January 2022

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping

General News

Ocean protection and Marine Directive review: past present future. Interview with Monica Verbeek, Executive Director of Seas At Risk

21 December 2021

• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

More than 150,000 Europeans call on EU to ban bottom-trawling to protect ocean and climate

20 December 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Events

Invitation: Stop destroying our ocean – environmental NGOs hand over petition in artistic bid to ban bottom trawling

20 December 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Publications

+150 NGOs Raise Concern About the Overall Ambition of the EU Nature Restoration Law

14 December 2021

• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

EU Fisheries Ministers to Proudly Keep on Overfishing in 2022

14 December 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use

Member's News

Underwater noise: the hidden danger of deep-sea mining

10 December 2021

• Deep sea mining
• Ocean use

Press Releases

France, Spain and Italy must stop playing russian roulette with their Mediterranean fisheries, and instead abide by EU law they committed to

9 December 2021

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean use