SealScotland

Healthy Seals = Healthy Seas.

[Oceana UK @OceanaUK]

🎉 OCEAN WIN: The UK has finally ratified the High Seas Treaty

🌊 Once implemented, this treaty will allow us to create marine protected areas within them for the first time - critical to meeting the commitment to protect 30% of the world's ocean by 2030 💪

Time to implement!

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Scientists warn Earth could exceed a key global warming target within a decade.

This #HopeDay, see how emerging climate-friendly technologies could help slash emissions driving global warming: https://t.co/GCk0J0BGd5

[Oceana UK @OceanaUK]

🌊 Marine protected areas are supposed to safeguard our iconic wildlife, yet one porpoise sanctuary was subjected to 30,000+ hrs of apparent bottom trawling last year alone

It must end.

✊Act now to protect ocean wildlife: https://t.co/Bz4T8fyl3i

📢 Ban #BottomTrawling in MPAs

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

The Montreal Protocol has phased out 99% of ozone-depleting substances, many of which are powerful greenhouse gases.

By curbing these pollutants and shielding carbon sinks from UV damage, it could prevent up to 1°C of warming by 2100: https://t.co/1u00MRUUuh

[SealScotland @SealScotland]

Marine heat wave!
https://t.co/5uVXP8lmb5

[SealScotland @SealScotland]

Toxic chemicals with that?
https://t.co/1jDm26wn2i

[Oceana in Europe @OceanaEurope]

Reducing fish discards isn't just good practice. It is essential for sustainable fisheries, healthy oceans, food security and resilient coastal communities.

Strong implementation of the EU #CommonFisheriesPolicy and more selective fishing must remain a political priority.

[SealScotland @SealScotland]

How old?
@https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BvRBDqWa2/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[Oceana UK @OceanaUK]

🚨 Out of 113 marine protected areas for wildlife like puffins & porpoises… only 2 have full protection from destructive bottom trawling, our new research shows

Protected in name only isn’t protection at all

📢 Ban #BottomTrawling in MPAs 🌊

Act now: https://t.co/iu5Iq3KxnC

[Oceana UK @OceanaUK]

🚨 "The harms caused by bottom trawling are not limited to life on the seabed. Harbour porpoises, puffins, terns & countless other animals need healthy habitats & abundant prey."

📢 Ban #BottomTrawling in MPAs

🌊 Act now: https://t.co/Bz4T8fyl3i

https://t.co/8aXRYFo0L7

[SealScotland @SealScotland]

Not everyone or everything likes heat! https://t.co/1EcUiDKW7m

[SealScotland @SealScotland]

Loads of seal and 'marine-protection" info. on our website:- https://t.co/4DL8hNeCOD

[SealScotland @SealScotland]

Men, logs and seals!
https://t.co/9enhLCkZt5

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

🟡NEW: Northern gannets are protected wild birds. But on Sula Sgeir, a legal exemption allows young birds to be taken for food each year.

We looked at how the guga hunt still happens, and why it is facing renewed criticism: https://t.co/qPRRVoKbvh

[Oceana @oceana]

What happens above the surface starts below it. 🌊

Life on our planet wouldn't survive without the oceans, so let's help them thrive in return. 🌏💙

[Oceana in Europe @OceanaEurope]

Protected should mean protected. But across Europe, destructive bottom trawling still happens in Marine Protected Areas.

The MPA Legal Coalition is launching to coordinate legal action and hold governments accountable for enforcing the laws.

Learn more: https://t.co/6kbNLa5eZv

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

The Scottish Government gave local authorities £20m to tackle a "nature emergency". But we found that around £4m of that sum was spent on fixing cars and office equipment, among other non-environmental spending.

Our latest: https://t.co/f53hksVLef

[Salmon Scotland @SalmonScotland]

Tasmania's salmon industry has confirmed 5.4 tonnes of antibiotics were used last summer to treat a disease outbreak which killed 9,000 tonnes of farmed fish over the first three months of this year.

They have applied for a licence to dump more:

https://t.co/splphx5zvz

[Oceana UK @OceanaUK]

🚨🐟 Warning lights are flashing red across UK seas as population after population of our fish are driven towards COLLAPSE

The latest scientific advice on the status of UK fish and how much we can safely take is in, and the picture is grim 🔽1/
https://t.co/rgePAJbq50

[Oceana in Europe @OceanaEurope]

The EU #MarineActionPlan is key to implementing environmental laws.

It must be backed by compliance with the Habitats Directive and #CommonFisheriesPolicy to improve fisheries management in protected areas and support low-impact fishers through preferential access areas.