🚨PRESS RELEASE! Thousands of ocean advocates joined our #BlueMarch2025 to call for ocean action - NOW! 🌊✊.Our Exec Director @VerbeekSAR tells leaders at #UNOC3: “The ocean sustains us. Now it’s our turn to sustain it – with action , not promises.”

🌊 On #MPADay, let's remember that most EU MPAs still allow destructive fishing like #BottomTrawling. Real protection means banning harmful practices and ensuring our marine ecosystems can thrive. 🌍🐠 #ProtectedMeansProtected

🌊 Deep-sea mining is still on hold - but so is reform. #ISBA30 saw some steps forward but vital progress blocked on transparency, safeguards & environmental governance. ✅ No Mining Code.❌ No reform.🌍 38 countries now back a moratorium. Read more🔗

👋 Are you passionate about bringing the plight of the ocean closer to people & politics? 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗦𝗿. 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿! Join the Seas At Risk team and make waves with us! 🌊 ✨ . Apply by 31 July! 🔗

🌊 Good news for Danish seas & #marinebiodiversity 👏! 🇩🇰 .Denmark will create trawl-free areas in 19% of its marine waters, including the entire #BeltSea and key #Natura2000 sites. 🔗Read more:

RT @CleanArctic: Open Letter: @osparcomm Ministers must uphold their duty to prevent marine pollution from scrubber toxic waste discharges….

RT @CleanArctic: Open Letter: @osparcomm Ministers must uphold their duty to prevent marine pollution from scrubber toxic waste discharges….

🌊 OSPAR ministers must show high ambition and act now: ban scrubber discharges from ships with no delay.🐟 Science is clear — turning air pollution into ocean pollution is unacceptable. Cleaner alternatives exist. Protect marine life. #GreenTransition

RT @POLITICOEurope: The race to save the world's oceans is on. The United Nations Oceans Conference in Nice, France ended today with promi….

🌊 The EU's ocean reputation took a hit at #UNOC. While #BottomTrawling ravages Marine Protected Areas, most EU leaders offered little more than lip service. 🛑. #OurOcean deserves better. 🔗 Full story: #ProtectedMeansProtected #BanBottomTrawling

Spain’s Fisheries Minister 🎣 used the UN Ocean Conference (#UNOC) to defend #BottomTrawling - right as the world is discussing ocean protection. While some countries are banning trawling in protected areas, 🇪🇸 drags its feet. EU nature laws exist. It’s time to enforce them.

🇵🇹 Portugal made a major step towards #30x30 by expanding an MPA with a % fully protected! 🤩💙 Meanwhile, EU leaders at #UNOC3 are all talk and no action… 🥱 . Read the full PR from our member Sciaena here: #ProtectedMeansProtected

We welcome the #OceanPact at #UNOC25 but we need:.✅Commitments that have legal force.✅legally binding targets that don't overshoot the oceans limits.✅Marine Protected Areas that are protected. It's time to speak up for a voiceless ocean.#BlueManifesto.@EU_Commission @clergeau

We’re here at #UNOC3 🎉 One of our top asks to @EU_Commission is to get a legally binding #OceanAct out of the #OceanPact - a message @VerbeekSAR shared with @vonderleyen & @CostasKadis 🤝 Their presence here sets the right tone that #OurOcean needs all the attention it can get.

RT @DeepSeaConserve: 🚨Breaking news from #UNOC3, Slovenia🇸🇮 becomes the 34th country to call for a moratorium on #DeepSeaMining. We must s….

We are in Nice, calling for real protection of #MarieProtectedAreas! #ProtectedMeansProtected #blueMarch #UNOC3 #MPAs #oceansPact

Will the #OceansPact reduce #MarinePollution? @GaelleHaut said: Unfortunately not. The pact was positive in its intention. It says that there is a crisis. But when it comes to solutions, it’s empty, as there are no concrete measures to fight pollution. #UNOC3.

.@nico_fournier says : “We would have expected the #OceansPact to have more actions to implement existing measures. “To govern” means “to anticipate”. But this #OceansPact is not anticipating anything. #UNOC3 #ProtectedMeansProtected.

Ocean laws are just on paper and not put into practice in the water. Can the #OceansPact be a game changer? We are at #UNOC3 attending the blue NGOs event. #ProtectedMeansProtected @costas

The #OceanPact is out and it's a bit of a mixed bag for ocean health. Steps have been made at a time when we need to take leaps 🦘.We've unpacked it all in our press release. Take a look at where it works, and where it's falling short: