In celebration of #WorldOceansDay, join the Commonwealth #BlueCharter and @Bluemarinef on 6 June for an event that will highlight the contributions of women in protecting and preserving our oceans.
Learn more and register to attend 👉🏾: https//bit.ly/4dS55Vp
Plastic is at the forefront of the 3 interlinked planetary crises that we currently face: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Over the next 18 months an international treaty on plastic pollution is being built at the UN to end the plastic pollution crisis.
Anguilla has formally joined the Blue Belt Programme. A key to step to responding to marine challenges, managing our coastal & marine resources to spur economic activity while adapting to the effects of climate change. #growing#sustainably#together#anguillareimagined#bluebelt
Today's @ukgovbluebelt symposium @IMPAC5Canada included representatives from the UKOTs such as Turks and Caicos, @AscensionMPA , @sthelenampa & South Georgia- sharing their experiences of managing large scale MPA's in remote locations.
As part of the recently launched plastic project AIG’s marine plastic coordinator, @TobiasCapel, has been conducting a study with the #seabird team to investigate the prevalence and composition of #plastic#pollution found in brown booby nests on Ascension.
@ZSLMarine@EllermanUK
Can you help us identify this #plastic?
We've been finding these mesh tubes while conducting surveys of #brownbooby nests and shore surveys along Ascension’s coast. We need to know what they are to identify where they are coming from.
#smallislandBIGVISION
📷:@CapelTobias
Half way through our time on #Ascension 🐋🦀🐢. Alongside @AIGConservation we've been trying to understand #oceanplastic#pollution through the experiences of those that live on the island. We've met schools, waste mgmt teams, miltary, retailers, a social worker & many more!
Super excited to be spending the next few weeks on Ascension, a remote island 1,000 miles from the coast of Africa.
We’ll be working alongside @AscensionMPA and local communities to understand and reduce the impact of plastic pollution on the incredible wildlife that live here.
NEW COLLABORATIVE PAPER: Our team, co-led by @DavidCurnick, compiled the first global synthesis of vertical habitat use by elasmobranchs.
For more info, check out the infographic and #openaccess article
https://t.co/VEjEhUlDpd
More tidbits in the 🧵below (1/4)
#VerticalSharks
Delighted to share our new #SharkScience paper in @ScienceAdvances
Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology
Available here: https://t.co/pOsI9VFo7k
A short 🧵on #VerticalSharks
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ps. thanks to Simon @MantaTrust for the infographic
Want to grow your capacity to drive change?
@Marine_CoLAB’s guide to apply values & systems based approaches can help! @OfficialZSL is a member of this collaboration & has been working on this concept for 6 years
Read more here: https://t.co/ol8A0SK6rQ