Oceana UK

🚨🐟 Overfishing is pushing our ocean to the brink. Four years past the UK's latest deadline to end overfishing, it’s time for real government action NOW. 🎣 Ending overfishing is integral to a healthy ocean, which in turn is essential for both communities and planet. 🌍 We've crafted an ambitious vision to turn the tide on overfishing. Read our roadmap to #SaveOurSeas here: https://lnkd.in/eSyMA5pq 🌊 Our seas can’t wait any longer. We must #EndOverfishing.

🎄💙 This Christmas, we’re grateful for the ocean - our source of oxygen, food, climate stability, and natural beauty. 🌊 It even supports our mental health! Let’s show our thanks by protecting our seas in the new year. 🌟🐟

MPs may now be on Christmas break, but our ocean can't wait! Start 2025 strong and send a FREE postcard straight to your MP's desk for when they return, urging them to protect UK seas and marine life. 🐋 It's quick, easy & could spark a wave of change. ✍️https://lnkd.in/eY9cS8tB

🚨 CO2 from proposed North Sea oil and gas sites would equal 30 years of UK household emissions, new research reveals. 🤯 Approving these projects locks us into climate catastrophe. Time to fairly transition to a renewable future, for our ocean and planet 🌊🌍 Read more on The Guardian: https://lnkd.in/efXceYwG #OceanConservation #FossilFuels #Renewables #BigOil #Ocean

Oil spills and ageing rigs show why #fossilfuel projects are incompatible with a healthy #ocean, or thriving planet. 🌍🌊 North Sea oil spills rose 13% last year, the data shows!! 😡 This is exactly why Oceana UK is challenging new oil and gas licences in the High Court, to protect our seas and safeguard our future. Read more via Upstream Online: https://lnkd.in/egMMBRnz

🦋 🐠 🐙🐌 Natural History Museum scientists discovered almost 200 new species in 2024! Among those were deep-sea amphipods, whose habitat is threatened by industrial mining plans. ⛏️ 🪸 The discovery is part of wider efforts to understand the deep-sea, which can then inform where marine protected areas should go. Because protecting our #ocean starts with understanding it. 🌊 #DefendTheDeep #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Conservation #DeepSea https://lnkd.in/eVcGkfn9

Amazing! Nudibranchs, humpback whales and spiny lobsters are thriving in UK seas. 🐋🦞 Our friends at the Wildlife Trusts have conducted their annual marine review, and the findings are striking. Species comebacks have been revealed, including 30 sightings of humpback whales off Cornwall and the return of the long-lost St Piran’s hermit crab, thought to be wiped out by an oil spill decades ago. Thriving restoration projects have led to recordings of giant mussel beds, more lobsters, a tope shark and European eels - showing that when an area is properly protected, ocean wildlife can truly recover. 🌊 But threats remain. To ensure ocean health, we must kick Big Oil and bottom trawlers out of all marine protected areas. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/edYFZRYV #OceanProtection #OceanConservation #Ocean #UKSeas

🚨 BREAKING: Only 44% of key species and habitats within UK marine protected areas are in favourable condition. Not good enough! It's time to get a move on and properly protect ocean havens if we're to have any hope of reaching the 70% target by 2042. We can start by kicking dirty Big Oil and bottom trawlers out of protected waters. Government report on the state of UK marine protected areas here 🪸⏬ https://lnkd.in/g8HMTafx #MPAs #OceanConservation #Ocean Hugo Tagholm Daisy Brickhill Alec Taylor Amy Hammond Naomi Tilley Lucy Doyle Sophie Fresson

📣 Protecting nature is protecting our future. That's why we proudly support the Climate and Nature Bill! ✊🌊 If passed, it’ll enshrine vital nature and climate goals into law, protecting our seas and marine life. 🪸🐋🦞 ✍️ Ask your MP to vote for the #CANBill now! 🌍 👉👉 https://lnkd.in/eK2hmSjm Zero Hour Hugo Tagholm

✨ A thriving seal colony is in residence at Orford Ness in Suffolk! 🦭 Thanks to minimal human disturbance & natural shelter, this site has seen 80 grey seal pups born this winter alone, with numbers growing each year. A win for marine life! 🌊 Read more: https://lnkd.in/efSqj7k9