Press Releases

Ocean Base Camp: an open space for civil society during the UN Ocean Conference

23 June 2022

• Climate and ocean
• Deep sea mining
• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean noise pollution
• Ocean plastic pollution
• Rewilding the ocean

Events

UN Ocean Conference side event: Marine megafauna & blue carbon

29 June 2022

• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping
• Low impact fisheries
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

EU makes poor progress on milestones to deliver a healthy ocean by 2030

14 June 2022

• Blue Manifesto
• Ocean governance
• Ocean plastic pollution
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

European Parliament calls for action on bottom fishing and true protection for EU’s marine protected areas

3 May 2022

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

Press Releases

European Parliament vote will serve as crash test of its ambition for ocean biodiversity and the climate

2 May 2022

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

Events

Join us for Ocean Week on 8-15 June 2022

8 June 2022

• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

Press Releases

European environmental organisations call for a ban on destructive fishing practices in Marine Protected Areas

29 April 2022

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

Events

Ocean Week high-level event: There is no Ocean B.

13 June 2022

• Blue Manifesto
• Rewilding the ocean

Publications

NGOs’ open letter – Concerns about the repeated delay of the Nature Restoration Law

22 March 2022

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

Member's News

Seas At Risk welcomes two new members: Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation and Shark Project

10 March 2022

• Low impact fisheries
• Ocean governance
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

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

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

Publications

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

14 December 2021

• Ocean governance
• Rewilding the ocean

Member's News

Effectively protected areas: Dutch North Sea under pressure

29 November 2021

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

Finally a blue lining at COP26 but insufficient action for the climate

19 November 2021

• Climate and ocean
• Ocean plastic pollution
• Rewilding the ocean

General News

COP 26: Ocean action is climate action and the time to act is now!

2 November 2021

• Clean ocean
• Climate and ocean
• Decarbonising shipping
• Ocean use
• Rewilding the ocean

Multimedia

Ban Bottom Trawling in Marine Protected Areas!

30 June 2021

• Marine protected areas
• Rewilding the ocean

Multimedia

Ocean week high level event: Protection, Restoration, Resilience: How the can EU turn the tide on our seas

22 June 2021

• Rewilding the ocean