Marine Conservation

May 13, 2009 at 5:00 am by Mike Sowden

Evictions Underway: Nature Gives Notice

In the future, rising sea levels are going to drive people out of their low-lying communities and up to higher ground. But you might not know it’s going on right now.

As Luanne reported recently, the government of the Maldives is facing the prospect of inundation with admirable foresight by moving to a carbon zero economy by the end of the next decade and adding a splash of green to its luxury status.

The country is also going to use future profits to fund a wholesale relocation of the population …

Ban Fishing, Say Conservationists – or Fish Are Sunk

For everyone’s good, we need to leave the oceans well alone for a while.

That’s the recommendation of over 100 scientific papers assessed by the Professor of Marine Conservation at the University of York, England. All these papers suggest that the demonstrably successful marine protected area (MPA) scheme should be dramatically expanded until it covers at least 20% of the world’s oceans – and maybe even up to one-third of them.

Why? Because many fish stocks are in deep crisis – not just depleted but at such dangerously …