MIL-OSI NGOs: Oceana Dismisses Industry’s $1.5 Billion Dream as Another False Solution to Plastic Pollution Crisis
Source: Oceania Global – Today, a coalition of the world’s largest plastic producers announced they will put $1.5 billion into waste management and other programs to clean up plastic pollution. While the industry is touting this initiative as the answer to the global plastic pollution crisis, Oceana panned it as another distraction from the real […]
Read More →MIL-OSI New Zealand: The youth have seen enough
Source: Greenpeace New Zealand Why are global politics so dysfunctional that the UN climate meeting requires a 15-year-old Swedish grade school student to speak the truth? Why does a coalition of youth, outside the COP 24 climate meeting articulate a more comprehensive action plan than the delegates inside the meeting? Greta Thunberg at COP24 in […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Oregon Seeks to Extend Offshore Drilling Ban
Source: Oceania Global – Today, a bi-partisan group of Oregon Senators and Representatives introduced a bill (SB 256) that will safeguard natural resources, communities, and local economies by banning offshore oil and gas drilling in the state’s territorial sea (0-3 miles from shore). Specifically, the bill repeals the sunset date of the existing offshore drilling […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Oceana’s new campaign warns about salmon farming’s potential risks to human health
Source: Oceania Global – Using an animated video, marine conservation organization Oceana warned about the effects that bacterial resistance could have on health. This natural phenomenon has increased due to the excess use of antibiotics in humans and the animal industry and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), it will become the primary cause […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Two salmon farming companies refuse to provide information on their use of antibiotics despite an order from the Council for Transparency
Source: Oceania Global – Companies Marine Harvest, now Mowi, and Ventisqueros, the latter in the spotlight for a massive escape of salmon from one of their farms, refused to comply with a sentence issued by the Council for Transparency ordering them to provide Oceana with data on their use of antibiotics in 2015, 2016 and […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: European Parliament vote puts future of Mediterranean fishing on the line
Source: Oceania Global – MEPs reject necessary conservation measures, putting region’s already overfished stocks at high risk of total collapse Oceana warns emergency closures to fishing could be only option to fix Mediterranean fish crisis and to comply with EU law The European Parliament voted today to adopt the first-ever multiannual plan for fishing in […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: New law that modernizes Sernapesca leaves Chile at the forefront in the fight against illegal fishing
Source: Oceania Global – Marine conservation organization Oceana celebrated the Chilean Senate’s approval of the bill that updates the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) providing, among other things, increased transparency in access to the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS), information that will be public for the first time. “Chile has taken a very important step […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Asia-Pacific: Guest Article: 2019: The Year to End Harmful Fisheries Subsidies
Source: Small Island Developing States A truth that is fundamental to humanity’s existence is that the Ocean sustains life on planet Earth. Think only of the way the Ocean provides us with over 50 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and the motivation to secure the Ocean’s health is incontrovertible. With that health now under […]
Read More →MIL-OSI New Zealand: In difficult times, hope is an act of courage
Source: Greenpeace New Zealand Flooding in Japan, unprecedented monsoons in India, a nearly 30% increase in rainfallthroughout the Americas and 40% across Europe. Africa is seeing deadly droughtsacross Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Australia, Greece, Sweden, Portugal and the American Northwest’s horizons glowed red with wildfires because of heatwaves and drier seasons. The Philippines and Fiji were battered by some of the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Asia-Pacific: Event: Expert Group Meeting on Conservation and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Source: Small Island Developing States This EGM is organized annually by the Indigenous Peoples in Development Branch within the Division of Inclusive Social Development of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). The theme of the 2019 EGM is, ‘Conservation and the rights of indigenous peoples,’ as recommended by the 2018 session of […]
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