“Astonishing and irresponsible” is how experts and environmentalists have greeted the news that the Government of New Zealand has granted a subsidy of up to $20 million to a company proposing to operate a deep sea mine, while a legal Hearing on its application to do so is still deliberating.
Source: Yahoo News
Author: Ali Chase, NRDC
A hidden world thrives more than a mile and a half beneath the waves, in the inky blackness roughly 80 miles offshore the Atlantic’s coastline. There you can find corals in all colors of the rainbow and a menagerie of sea life with evocative names, such as the whiplash squid, dumbo octopus, sea butterfly (which is actually a snail), sea toad and tonguefish. See more images of the deep-see life in “Exotic Deep-Sea Canyon Life at Risk (Gallery ).”
Continue reading Coral Thrive Off U.S. Atlantic Coast, But Threatened
Source: Deep Sea Mining Campaign
SYDNEY | The 13th PNG Mining and Petroleum Investment Conference at Sydney’s Hilton Hotel from the 1st to the 3rd of December is receiving pressure from human rights and environmental advocates in regards to continuing investment into mining in Papua New Guinea that has been destroying communities and the environment since 1972.
Continue reading A ‘No More Mining’ message taken to PNG investors
Several NGOs (Access Info, Ecologistas en Acción, Fundación ENT, Greenpeace, Oceana, WWF and the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition) have submitted a request for information to the Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment in order to clarify the impact of the European Commission’s proposal for a new regulation for the management of deep-sea fishing in the Northeast Atlantic on the Spanish deep-sea fleet.
Foreign fishing vessels destroy in the blink of an eye what took thousands of years to form in the deep waters of the UK. Tell the UK government to protect our heritage! Sign the petition.
Continue reading Protect our UK heritage. Ban deep-sea bottom trawling.
The deep sea off the British Isles is teeming with cold-water corals, sponge fields, and a large variety of unique underwater habitats and species.
Continue reading Reforming the EU deep-sea fishing regulation: A net win for the UK
Today, a gathering orchestrated by BLOOM in collaboration with several NGOs including an international coalition of over 70 organizations – the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition – is taking place in front of a forum in Paris on the theme of “tomorrow’s fisheries”. The message to French Ecology Minister Ségolène Royal is that the public is calling on her to ensure that tomorrow’s fisheries will certainly not be deep-sea bottom trawling!
Continue reading Ban deep-sea bottom trawling? It is still possible!
Concluding arguments in a case which could set international precedents for deep seabed mining were heard today, in Wellington, New Zealand.
Continue reading Hearing could Affect Global Spread of Deep Seabed Mining
Source: stuff.co.nz
Author: Liam Hyslop
Phosphate mining should not be allowed on the Chatham Rise as it will damage marine environments, environment groups say. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started calling final submissions at its hearing over the application by Chatham Rock Phosphate (CRP) to mine phosphates off New Zealand’s coast.
Continue reading Chatham mining will ‘destroy’ rare seabed life
Adverts published in the German press asking Fisheries Minister Schmidt to take a lead in helping secure Europe’s deep seas. The DSCC with many other organisations wrote to Minister Schmidt earlier this year and you can add your voice by tweeting:
