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PRESS RELEASE: UN member states urged to tackle plastics crisis at heart in new global treaty

The fourth of five rounds of negotiations on a global plastics treaty is drawing to a close in Ottawa, Canada. Ahead of the closing session, a strong group of countries from all continents issued a declaration calling on negotiators to secure a treaty that addresses the entire life cycle of plastics and to prevent the overproduction of plastics. PRESS RELEASE – 30 ...

PRESS RELEASE: OceanCare urges UN governments to show ambition at crucial negotiating meeting on global Plastics Treaty

Representatives of all UN member states are meeting in Ottawa, Canada from 23 to 29 April 2024 to advance negotiations on an international legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. With only one more round of negotiations to go, this week will be crucial in reaching ...

PRESS STATEMENT: Scientists, civil society and Greek government to deploy smart technology to prevent ship strikes on sperm whales in the Kythera strait

The Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy, the Natural Environment and Climate Change Agency of Greece, together with the international marine conservation organisation OceanCare and the Athens-based environmental think tank The Green Tank announced today, as part of the Our Ocean Conference 2024, their ...

Need for Global Ban on Solar Geoengineering

Debate at UN environmental summit highlights need for global ban on solar geoengineering - Switzerland ultimately withdrew its resolution on solar radiation modification at the Sixth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) after governments could not even reach consensus on a knowledge repository for the controversial technologies. - The resolution went in several directions during an intense set of negotiations, with different ...

PRESS RELEASE: Protecting marine ecosystems and geoengineering Pandora’s box on the agenda of UN environment ministers this week in Nairobi

The world’s environment ministers are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya this week for the sixth UN Environment Assembly to discuss how multilateralism can help tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change, loss of nature and biodiversity, and pollution and contamination. OceanCare is very concerned that a ...

Coming up: High-level UN meeting in Uzbekistan to find solutions for endangered migratory species and protect global biodiversity

Member States of the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals will meet in Uzbekistan, 12-17 February 2024 to address issues of critical importance to the global biodiversity crisis. The most intense debate is expected to be on the controversial issue of deep-sea mining. ...

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New study: Urgent science-based conservation action needed for Adriatic whales and dolphins

Plastics Treaty Negotiations end without major outcomes but an effective instrument to stem the plastic tide remains within reach

Plastics Treaty Negotiations end without major outcomes but an effective instrument to stem the plastic tide remains within reach N airobi/Zurich, 19th November 2023: Today, the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) for ...

Clean-washing? Plastic clean-up tech not all it seems on the surface

CLEAN-UPS OR CLEAN-WASHING? Environmental organisations claim Plastic clean-up tech not all it seems on the surface LONDON/ZURICH, 6th November 2023: A new report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and OceanCare highlights the damaging impacts of ‘quick fix’ ocean clean-up ...

New Report Debunks Claims of Whale and Dolphin Hunters in Faroe Islands

New Report Debunks Claims of Whale and Dolphin Hunters in Faroe Islands California/Washington, DC/London/Munich/Zurich, September 25, 2023: Today, in the wake of the latest Faroe Islands drive hunt on Friday that saw the killing of 42 more pilot whales, seven of the world’s leading animal welfare and ...

Harpoons to be fired again as Iceland resumes its fin whale hunt

Harpoons to be fired again as Iceland resumes its fin whale hunt London/Vienna/Zurich, 31st of August 2023: With today’s announcement by Iceland‘s Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, not to continue this summer’s temporary whaling ban, fin whales will soon be killed again. The two Icelandic whaling vessels left port ...

European Union Member States Condemn Faroe Islands Drive Hunts

European Union Member States Condemn Faroe Islands Drive Hunts Press Release Wädenswil/Switzerland, 21st December 2021 In recent decades, the European Union Member States have remained largely silent on the killing of small cetaceans in the Faroe Islands, shying away from criticising a brutal and obsolete tradition. Today marks a turn-around on this ...

Whale conservation in dire straits, International Whaling Commission at the crossroads – NGO Vision Paper on the IWC’s 75th anniversary

Press Release Whale conservation in dire straits, International Whaling Commission at the crossroads – NGO Vision Paper on the IWC’s 75th anniversary Wädenswil/Washington D.C., 2nd December 2021. The International Convention for the Regulation ...

OceanCare: Generation change on a solid basis

The hidden danger of deep-sea mining

Once again: Dolphin mass killing in the Faroe Islands

Press release Once again: Dolphin mass killing in the Faroe Islands Wädenswil, 23. September 2021: Just ten days after a mass killing of more than 1,400 Atlantic white-sided dolphins, the Faroe Islands saw another drive hunt yesterday, September 22nd. This time, 52 pilot whales were driven into a beach and brutally killed. The marine conservation ...

OceanCare criticizes massive kill of Atlantic white-sided dolphins off the Faroese-Islands

OceanCare criticizes massive kill of Atlantic white-sided dolphins off the Faroese-Islands Wädenswil/Switzerland, 14th September 2021. This Sunday, 12th of September 2021, the Skala Fjord in the east of the Faroese-Islands in the Atlantic has been the scene of one of the largest kills of dolphins in ...

“Slow down to save the climate”

Press release / interview proposal OceanCare Wädenswil, Vienna, Madrid, 2nd September 2021 “Slow down to save the climate” Reducing shipping speed helps tackle the climate crisis with immediate effect - Climate crisis: Mediterranean Sea projected to heat up by 1.8 to 3.5 degrees until 2100[i] - Climate offenders: New EMTER Report says that maritime ...

OCEANCARE WELCOMES THE INCLUSION OF SHIPPING IN THE EU EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME

OceanCare's first assessment following the presentation of the European Commission’s "Fit for 55" legislative package OCEANCARE WELCOMES THE INCLUSION OF SHIPPING IN THE EU EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME The EU thus sets an example to the International Maritime Organization on the need to establish a global ...

Can whale poo help save the planet?

Spain Bans Any New Hydrocarbon Exploration and Exploitation Project By Law

Press Release SPAIN BANS ANY NEW HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION PROJECT BY LAW A clear step forward in Spain's commitment to the decarbonisation of its economy that will also bring multiple benefits for marine wildlife in Spanish waters Wädenswil, May 13, 2021: OceanCare congratulates that t ...

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Scientists warn: European whales and dolphins “Under Pressure” of extinction

Sea Turtle Rescue Alliance Launches on World Wildlife Day

Media Release Sea Turtle Rescue Alliance Launches on World Wildlife Day A global network of veterinarians come together to save endangered sea turtles around the world Florida - USA, Bohol - Philippines, Zurich - Switzerland , 1 March 2021 : This Wednesday, March 3, marks World Wildlife Day and the launch of the Sea Turtle Rescue Alliance (STRA) with ...

Hope for ban on oil and gas exploration in Spanish waters

Press release Hope for ban on oil and gas exploration in Spanish waters Wädenswil, January 13, 2021: While France has already imposed a ban on exploring any new oil and gas sites in its waters and the Danish government has just announced such ban for its waters within the North Sea, the Spanish Government has proposed a similar measure within its draft ...