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Download Fish Guide - Vote with your fork
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The Marine Conservation Society is partnering with other high profile NGOs to show UK government that it has to commit to increasing the number of effective marine reserves in UK waters. Currently less than 0.005% of UK waters is in marine reserves, yet science shows they deliver massive benefits. Please sign up to the marine reserves manifesto and call for more marine reserves by clicking here.
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The film Whale Like Me features Malcolm Wright, African American conservationist journeying to Japan to understand the Japanese attitudes towards whales. He enlists the aid of an old friend, Hideki Fujii – although Hideki accepts the vital role of opening the doors of his culture to a foreigner, he reveals that he himself is for whaling. The two challenge each other to explore their different cultural approaches to whales through direct investigation, culminating in Malcolm living amongst coastal whalers, experiencing their culture and activities first hand. Malcolm is but one man faced with an entire culture - how far will he get in his pursuit of mutual understanding, and what will be the outcome for whales?
Click here to support film production with donation.
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The effects of plastic pollution have an overwhelming impact on marine biodiversity. This is a BIG ISSUE and it is bad news for not just the marine animals but everyone of us. Here, Global Ocean believes that with all your join efforts, we can all play our part to bring back clean ocean, better marine habitat and great ecosystem for all livings.
In Global Ocean plastic campaign page, we have listed small steps you can make each day to make BIG CHANGE!
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Fins from up to 73 million sharks per year are used to make shark fin soup, a popular Asian delicacy. Shark finning is a sometimes wasteful and cruel practice- captured at sea and hauled on deck, the sharks are often still alive while their fins are sliced off. Because shark meat is not considered as valuable as the fins, the maimed animals are tossed overboard to drown or bleed to death. Up to 99% of the animal is wasted.
On Global Ocean shark campaign, you can learn what you can do to stop shark population to decline. You can also sign WildAid Global People's pledge for shark to call upon the leaders of all the world's nations to ensure the conservation and protection of our world's sharks.
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The creation of the Chagos MPA has been one of the greatest marine conservation success stories of recent times. With future support and funding, this vital habitat can be preserved for future generations and remind us of how the oceans could be.
Please help the Chagos Conservation Trust to continue their vital work by donating here.
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Download Fish Guide - Vote with your fork
In May 2011, the designer store Selfridges in London Oxford Street has came up with a brilliant brilliant idea called PROJECT OCEAN to conserve the marine habitat. It was a month long project working towards World Ocean Day 8th June to raise public awareness on the current fisheries and marine life. This project has worked hand in hand with Marine Conservation Society and Zoological Society London (ZSL). They have created an easy to use Fish Guide and Fish Guide App highlighting which fish species are currently at sustainable levels and those that should be avoided. Tools like these should broaden the consumer's range of fish that they purchase to alternative, more sustainable species. Be a wise consumer by voting with your fork!
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13th October 2010, Global Ocean attended a discussion entitled 'Plastic Pollution in the Oceans' at the Royal Geological Society hosted by British Plastic Federation (BPF). Further to the event, Global Ocean has taken the initiative to keep up with BPF website and we are very glad with their effort in bringing the matter to the general public. However there are also information on the website that concern us.
Global Ocean has then taken the action to write to the BPF contesting the information published on their website. At present we are still waiting to hear back from BPF with their reply. Click here to view the letter posted to BPF.
