#Wetlands are very effective at reducing water pollution. #Research shows that restoring wetlands in 5% of land can slash nitrogen pollution by up to half.
Coastal wetlands have unique superpowers to help tackle the biggest threats to the #GreatBarrierReef like #ClimateChange and water pollution.
Did you know that #SharkCulling programs in #NSW and #Queensland have never been assessed under our national environment laws ?
That’s despite the fact that #nets and lethal drumlines in NSW and QLD have caught 174 #CriticallyEndangered grey nurse #sharks in the past decade, killing 70. Over the same time, a massive 538 threatened marine #turtles were also caught across both states, with at least 183 killed.
Tell the Federal Environment Minister it’s time for change.
For the first time in over 20 years, national #EnvironmentalLaws are being rewritten. Tell Federal Environment Minister, #TanyaPlibersek that you want her to require the #NSW and #Queensland shark culling programs to be subject to national environment laws.
Keeping #dolphins, #orcas and other cetaceans in #captivity is cruel. Depriving them of the vast open spaces and social bonds that they would normally have in the wild, and confining them to small, concrete #tanks to perform tricks for dead fish is highly unethical for these complex marine mammals. No matter how sophisticated the enclosure, no man made facility can ever hope to replicate the wild world of dolphins and whales.
You can help protect cetaceans from captive #exploitation with the following action steps!
Below are a few petitions you can sign, and people you can write to make a difference in mere minutes. Take it a step further and ask your friends and social media followers to sign, too!
Take The Pledge To NOT Buy A Ticket To A Dolphin Show 🐬🌊
A company in Spain has a plan to torture a million octopuses per year – by raising them in crowded tanks and then killing them by putting them in icy water, which causes a slow, stressful death.
The company knows octopuses are highly intelligent and feel pleasure, pain, joy and fear, but this is their way of turning a huge profit. Now they’re being slammed by scientists and the media – and if enough of us add to the pressure right now we can stop them.
ABOLISH SEISMIC BLASTING SPECIAL PROSPECTING AUTHORITY PERMITS (SPA)
A Special Prospecting Authority (SPA) is a specific type of permit that allows #companies to buy access to large areas of our #oceans to use #SeismicBlasting to search for #oil and #gas, and Carbon Capture and Storage locations below the ocean floor.
Seismic blasts are how the oil and gas industry surveys the ocean floor. Seismic vessels tow an array of airguns and audio receivers (hydrophones) behind them in the water.
These powerful #airguns fire loud blasts of compressed air every 10 to 15 seconds, 24 hours a day. The sound waves produced penetrate deep into the #seabed and bounce back to the audio receivers. From the sound patterns detected, #companies can work out the most likely place to find oil and gas reserves under the ocean floor. The next step is exploratory #drilling.
Delfine in Not! NEIN zu Gasbohrungen im Neptun-Feld!
Die #Delfine im Schwarzen Meer sind in Gefahr! Mitten in der Heimat der klugen Meeressäuger will die #OMV mit dem #Neptun-Feld ein ganz neues Gasfeld eröffnen. Die Tiere müssten vor dem Bau der gewaltigen Anlagen und den anschließenden Bohrungen fliehen. Dabei sterben bereits zigtausende Delfine an den Folgen des Krieges. Die tödlichen Pläne der OMV könnten gefährdeten Delfinarten wie dem Großen Tümmler nun den Rest geben.
Stoppen wir gemeinsam die grausamen Pläne der OMV: Unterzeichnen Sie bitte noch heute gegen Gasbohrungen im Neptun-Feld und zur Rettung der Delfine im Schwarzen Meer!
It is with a heavy heart that I write to you on the first red cove day of 2023, a day that witnessed the ruthless #hunting and #slaughter of ~10 innocent Risso's #dolphins in #Taiji. The dolphins fought hard to escape but after a 2 hour chase, the entire #pod was forced into the cove and brutally killed.
Our team is not just standing by. At the end of August we submitted an appeal