Press Releases

EU Nature restoration plans: marine NGOs warn Member States must raise ambition to restore Europe’s seas

31 August 2026

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

New coalition launches to defend Europe’s seas through the courts

6 July 2026

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

One year after NGOs’ complaint: the Commission has still not acted on bottom trawling in MPAs

2 June 2026

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

Events

What do European citizens know and think about Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)?

5 March 2026

• Marine protected areas

Publications

High Seas Treaty enters force. Now the real work begins

16 January 2026

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping
• Marine protected areas

Publications

Briefing: Implementing the EU Nature Restoration Regulation at sea – Guidance for policy-makers and civil society

16 December 2025

• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

Events

Ocean Week 2025

22 September 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean governance
• Ocean plastic pollution

Press Releases

NGOs welcome Danish ban of bottom trawling in 19% of its marine waters 

2 July 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

UNOC: EU’s environmental reputation in tatters as it fails marine protected areas on international stage

13 June 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

‘Protect the ocean, protect life!’: Ocean advocates make global call for action before UN Ocean Conference

7 June 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean governance

Press Releases

UNOC countdown: Fresh legal challenge over untackled bottom-trawling in EU Marine Protected Areas

2 June 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Deep sea mining
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

Events

Seas At Risk @ UNOC-3

13 June 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Deep sea mining
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas
• Ocean governance
• Ocean plastic pollution
• Renewable energy at sea
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

Over a quarter of a million Europeans urge the EU to end bottom trawling in marine protected areas

13 May 2025

• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

NGOs join forces to demand a ban on destructive fishing in protected areas, and reveal bottom trawling’s economic toll

25 March 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

Multiple EU countries are failing to stop destructive fishing in Protected Areas, analysis finds, as several face legal action

20 March 2025

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

As EU Ocean Days conclude, civil society, fishers, and the scientific community call on Commissioner Kadis to affirm that bottom trawling has no place in marine protected areas

10 March 2025

• Blue Manifesto
• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

Ocean advocates launch ‘Protect Our Catch’, a European campaign, urging the EU to end destructive fishing such as bottom trawling in marine protected areas

5 February 2025

• Low impact fisheries
• Marine protected areas

Press Releases

Sweden sets an example for EU countries with first steps to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas

22 January 2025

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean