Ecojustice Canada’s Post

‼️ The Agriculture and Fisheries Council is meeting to discuss, among other topics, the new EU Forest Monitoring Law. In order to practice #SustainableForestry, it is important that our members know what can be found in their forests. Find out how the European state forest organizations have been monitoring their forests for over a century in our video below!🌲 https://lnkd.in/egKHeuDw

Efforts to protect wild Pacific salmon populations in British Columbia demonstrate the importance of Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS) for conservation. IDS is the right of Indigenous Peoples to govern the collection, ownership and application of their data. Indigenous Peoples have generated and cared for data for millennia, which includes the sustainable stewardship of ecosystems. Non-Indigenous scientists increasingly realize that Indigenous data are key to solving today’s environmental challenges. Discover how IDS is helping to save B.C.'s wild salmon and why its vital for successful collaborations and conservation: https://bit.ly/3XXo5vT UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries

PfL's research team, examine the interconnection of grazing animals, insects, and the wider food web, and the impacts of PfL certification on the environment. Farmers work towards PfL certification for multiple reasons, but one common result is land managed more sensitively, with a key emphasis on soil health, hydrological functioning, and biodiversity. 📌 https://lnkd.in/eyhNaG5X

What is tragedy of the commons? is a term popularized by an American ecologist Garrett Hardin (1968). The ‘tragedy’ is that for a time, each person, organization or nation can gain an additional benefit by using or consuming a bit more of the commons (the Earth) until a resource is used up, or an irreversible environmental change has occurred. Then everyone suffers. The tragedy of the commons is also a concept in economics that describes how shared resources can be overused and depleted when individuals act in their own self-interest. It is often used to explain the environmental problems associated with overexploitation of common resources like forests, fisheries, and water.

 🌊 🌐 Oceans cover 70% of our planet and 95% of the biosphere, holding the key to environmental and social balance globally. On #WorldOceanDay, we shed light on global efforts to curb harmful #fisheriessubsidies. ➡ Catch up on current WTO negotiations that hope to strengthen the Fisheries Subsidies Agreement with new, broader rules on overfishing and overcapacity: https://lnkd.in/deShQc4e ➡ Check out this self-assessment tool developed by IISD to support public officials to put the agreement into practice: https://lnkd.in/dumRga7q

During Nov 28–29 Shanghai workshop, @VictorMeseguer_ of @UNCTAD addressed the role of #SocialAndSolidarityEconomy (#SSE) in small-scale fisheries. He highlighted cooperatives and guilds as critical to fostering resilience, sustainability, and economic inclusion.

🌍 This week at #COFI36, delegates have a chance to move the needle forward in achieving a sustainable ocean future for all. 🐟 The 36th session of the Committee on Fisheries will provide a key forum to address global challenges in aquatic food systems, including food security and nutrition, climate change, plastic pollution and biodiversity conservation. 📊 Central to these discussions will be efforts to enhance data collection and analysis, to better inform fisheries management policies. 🌊 In line with our organization's work to create, transform and distribute data to increase the transparency of human activities at sea, our Chief Program Officer Paolo Roberto Domondon hones in on three key areas of action for the UN FAO and Member States to prioritize as discussions advance in Rome, Italy. 🌐 More here: bit.ly/4bvsHg3

(Business at sea) is one of the rich environmental resources of the air and water resources, especially the sea. We can make positive use of the rich aquatic and marine resources for food and medicine.  The aquatic habitat has been depleted, with regional and extra-regional studies, this intact habitat or the habitat prepared for future food production was considered, leasing any part of the sea to any food producer based on the biological conditions and preservation.  The environment after pollution and taking into account the aquatic conditions of that area and aquaculture in that area in a free-flowing manner and its fishing

A very interesting and very well attended side session hosted by the Collaborative Partnership for Wildlife looking at setting indicators for Target 5 to ensure that harvesting, trade and use of wild species should be undertaken in such a way that it is safe for people, other species and ecosystems. The problem is that the heaviest direct reliance on use of natural resources is usually by IPLCs and people living closer to poverty than those who will report on the indicators and such indicators could inadvertently lead to further restrictions and marginalisation. On the other hand we do need to measure or understand the essence of the target to avoid loosing these critical resources. Do we need to think beyond the standard metrics of resource bases and harvests, if so what could that look like? But let's be clear this is an issue of the global commons in the form of Biodiversity and as Ostroms enduring principles dictate, once the rules have been set they must be monitored.

#MusselMonday is here! 🐚 🌊 You know we love #musselcultivation, and often mussels filtering effect on the ocean is brought up as an environmental remedy. BUT, mussel cultivation does not only "clean the seas", but there are other ecosystem-enhancing effects. 🐟 Check out this article and some environmental benefits of low-trophic #aquaculture from a study by The University of Auckland and University of New England, funded by The Nature Conservancy #lowtrophicaquaculture #sustainableaquaculture #bluebioeconomy #blueeconomy https://lnkd.in/eEUT3Tai