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The Advertiser
4 hours ago
- General
- The Advertiser
High sea hopes for treaty to preserve vast underwater
Between Australia and New Zealand sits a chain of underwater volcanoes that are home to an abundance of fish, ancient corals and other marine life. Known as Lord Howe Rise, the vast underwater landscape largely exists outside state maritime boundaries, beneath the high seas. That makes the ecologically-rich habitat fair game for industrial fishing, including long-lining and bottom-trawling techniques in the spotlight following the latest instalment from acclaimed nature documentarian David Attenborough. Footage in Ocean powerfully reveals to viewers for the first time, trawlers dragging heavy nets across the sea bed in an indiscriminate search for just a few prized species. As well as scooping up vast volumes of bycatch, such trawling has been found to churn up carbon that would have otherwise stayed locked in place on the sea floor, some of which ends up in the atmosphere to fuel climate change. The documentary lands ahead of a major United Nations ocean conference in France in June. Conservation groups are hopeful the film will help garner support for a landmark treaty to better protect the roughly two-thirds of marine habitat outside the boundaries of individual countries. The high seas biodiversity agreement would lay the foundations to safeguard 30 per cent of the world's oceans by 2030 in marine sanctuaries, helping preserve threatened species and support fish stocks for communities reliant on the food source. Australia was a founding signatory to the agreement in 2023 and the re-elected Albanese government has promised to ratify its commitment "as quickly as possible", according to thee Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. "Australia is one of a small number of countries that requires implementing legislation to be in place before the treaty can be ratified," a spokesperson says. A multi-agency government delegation still being finalised is set to attend to conference in France. To bring the treaty into force, 60 countries need to enshrine the treaty in national law via ratification. So far, about 40 have either done so or signalled that they will. WWF-Australia head of oceans and sustainable development Richard Leck is confident the treaty will come into force. "But it means countries like Australia, who have indicated they support the treaty, really need to step up to their parliamentary processes and make sure that that actually gets through their systems," he says. Greenpeace Australia Pacific senior oceans campaigner Georgia Whittaker says marine animals are being "pushed closer to the brink of extinction" every day that passes without stronger protections. Fresh analysis of fisheries data from the environmental campaigners reveals damage caused by industrial longline fishing - long stretches of baited hooks - to shark populations. Almost half a million near-threatened blue sharks were taken as bycatch in the the central and western Pacific in 2023, the highest number ever recorded and double 2015 numbers. Greenpeace has been angling for a marine sanctuary in the Lord Howe Rise and Tasman Sea region in anticipation of the oceans treaty going ahead. Marine scientist and Research Connect Blue director Rachel Przeslawski says there is still much to learn about the diverse underwater tracts off Australia's east coast. The mighty chain of seamounts - underwater mountains - experience an inverse relationship to biodiversity to that of their on-land cousins. Life is most abundant higher on the peaks, where there's more sunlight and nutrients, with visiting humpback whales and other migratory species among the creatures found in their midst. The deeper waters of the surrounding abyssal plains tend to host sparser populations of "weird critters" that have adapted to dark, nutrient-poor and hostile conditions. Some seamounts are as shallow as 200m and a few breach the surface, Lord Howe Island and Middleton and Elizabeth reefs among them. Australian trawlers are no longer active in the area but vessels from other countries are causing damage, Dr Przeslawski tells AAP, with sea beds taking years or even decades to recover. She says any marine sanctuaries devised under a high seas agreement would ideally be completely no-take. Many existing marine parks are only partially protected, with permitted sections to be fished or mined. "Is it going to be toothless?" Dr Przeslawski asks. "Or will it actually have some bite and the ability to affect some of these really ecologically damaging activities?" Between Australia and New Zealand sits a chain of underwater volcanoes that are home to an abundance of fish, ancient corals and other marine life. Known as Lord Howe Rise, the vast underwater landscape largely exists outside state maritime boundaries, beneath the high seas. That makes the ecologically-rich habitat fair game for industrial fishing, including long-lining and bottom-trawling techniques in the spotlight following the latest instalment from acclaimed nature documentarian David Attenborough. Footage in Ocean powerfully reveals to viewers for the first time, trawlers dragging heavy nets across the sea bed in an indiscriminate search for just a few prized species. As well as scooping up vast volumes of bycatch, such trawling has been found to churn up carbon that would have otherwise stayed locked in place on the sea floor, some of which ends up in the atmosphere to fuel climate change. The documentary lands ahead of a major United Nations ocean conference in France in June. Conservation groups are hopeful the film will help garner support for a landmark treaty to better protect the roughly two-thirds of marine habitat outside the boundaries of individual countries. The high seas biodiversity agreement would lay the foundations to safeguard 30 per cent of the world's oceans by 2030 in marine sanctuaries, helping preserve threatened species and support fish stocks for communities reliant on the food source. Australia was a founding signatory to the agreement in 2023 and the re-elected Albanese government has promised to ratify its commitment "as quickly as possible", according to thee Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. "Australia is one of a small number of countries that requires implementing legislation to be in place before the treaty can be ratified," a spokesperson says. A multi-agency government delegation still being finalised is set to attend to conference in France. To bring the treaty into force, 60 countries need to enshrine the treaty in national law via ratification. So far, about 40 have either done so or signalled that they will. WWF-Australia head of oceans and sustainable development Richard Leck is confident the treaty will come into force. "But it means countries like Australia, who have indicated they support the treaty, really need to step up to their parliamentary processes and make sure that that actually gets through their systems," he says. Greenpeace Australia Pacific senior oceans campaigner Georgia Whittaker says marine animals are being "pushed closer to the brink of extinction" every day that passes without stronger protections. Fresh analysis of fisheries data from the environmental campaigners reveals damage caused by industrial longline fishing - long stretches of baited hooks - to shark populations. Almost half a million near-threatened blue sharks were taken as bycatch in the the central and western Pacific in 2023, the highest number ever recorded and double 2015 numbers. Greenpeace has been angling for a marine sanctuary in the Lord Howe Rise and Tasman Sea region in anticipation of the oceans treaty going ahead. Marine scientist and Research Connect Blue director Rachel Przeslawski says there is still much to learn about the diverse underwater tracts off Australia's east coast. The mighty chain of seamounts - underwater mountains - experience an inverse relationship to biodiversity to that of their on-land cousins. Life is most abundant higher on the peaks, where there's more sunlight and nutrients, with visiting humpback whales and other migratory species among the creatures found in their midst. The deeper waters of the surrounding abyssal plains tend to host sparser populations of "weird critters" that have adapted to dark, nutrient-poor and hostile conditions. Some seamounts are as shallow as 200m and a few breach the surface, Lord Howe Island and Middleton and Elizabeth reefs among them. Australian trawlers are no longer active in the area but vessels from other countries are causing damage, Dr Przeslawski tells AAP, with sea beds taking years or even decades to recover. She says any marine sanctuaries devised under a high seas agreement would ideally be completely no-take. Many existing marine parks are only partially protected, with permitted sections to be fished or mined. "Is it going to be toothless?" Dr Przeslawski asks. "Or will it actually have some bite and the ability to affect some of these really ecologically damaging activities?" Between Australia and New Zealand sits a chain of underwater volcanoes that are home to an abundance of fish, ancient corals and other marine life. Known as Lord Howe Rise, the vast underwater landscape largely exists outside state maritime boundaries, beneath the high seas. That makes the ecologically-rich habitat fair game for industrial fishing, including long-lining and bottom-trawling techniques in the spotlight following the latest instalment from acclaimed nature documentarian David Attenborough. Footage in Ocean powerfully reveals to viewers for the first time, trawlers dragging heavy nets across the sea bed in an indiscriminate search for just a few prized species. As well as scooping up vast volumes of bycatch, such trawling has been found to churn up carbon that would have otherwise stayed locked in place on the sea floor, some of which ends up in the atmosphere to fuel climate change. The documentary lands ahead of a major United Nations ocean conference in France in June. Conservation groups are hopeful the film will help garner support for a landmark treaty to better protect the roughly two-thirds of marine habitat outside the boundaries of individual countries. The high seas biodiversity agreement would lay the foundations to safeguard 30 per cent of the world's oceans by 2030 in marine sanctuaries, helping preserve threatened species and support fish stocks for communities reliant on the food source. Australia was a founding signatory to the agreement in 2023 and the re-elected Albanese government has promised to ratify its commitment "as quickly as possible", according to thee Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. "Australia is one of a small number of countries that requires implementing legislation to be in place before the treaty can be ratified," a spokesperson says. A multi-agency government delegation still being finalised is set to attend to conference in France. To bring the treaty into force, 60 countries need to enshrine the treaty in national law via ratification. So far, about 40 have either done so or signalled that they will. WWF-Australia head of oceans and sustainable development Richard Leck is confident the treaty will come into force. "But it means countries like Australia, who have indicated they support the treaty, really need to step up to their parliamentary processes and make sure that that actually gets through their systems," he says. Greenpeace Australia Pacific senior oceans campaigner Georgia Whittaker says marine animals are being "pushed closer to the brink of extinction" every day that passes without stronger protections. Fresh analysis of fisheries data from the environmental campaigners reveals damage caused by industrial longline fishing - long stretches of baited hooks - to shark populations. Almost half a million near-threatened blue sharks were taken as bycatch in the the central and western Pacific in 2023, the highest number ever recorded and double 2015 numbers. Greenpeace has been angling for a marine sanctuary in the Lord Howe Rise and Tasman Sea region in anticipation of the oceans treaty going ahead. Marine scientist and Research Connect Blue director Rachel Przeslawski says there is still much to learn about the diverse underwater tracts off Australia's east coast. The mighty chain of seamounts - underwater mountains - experience an inverse relationship to biodiversity to that of their on-land cousins. Life is most abundant higher on the peaks, where there's more sunlight and nutrients, with visiting humpback whales and other migratory species among the creatures found in their midst. The deeper waters of the surrounding abyssal plains tend to host sparser populations of "weird critters" that have adapted to dark, nutrient-poor and hostile conditions. Some seamounts are as shallow as 200m and a few breach the surface, Lord Howe Island and Middleton and Elizabeth reefs among them. Australian trawlers are no longer active in the area but vessels from other countries are causing damage, Dr Przeslawski tells AAP, with sea beds taking years or even decades to recover. She says any marine sanctuaries devised under a high seas agreement would ideally be completely no-take. Many existing marine parks are only partially protected, with permitted sections to be fished or mined. "Is it going to be toothless?" Dr Przeslawski asks. "Or will it actually have some bite and the ability to affect some of these really ecologically damaging activities?" Between Australia and New Zealand sits a chain of underwater volcanoes that are home to an abundance of fish, ancient corals and other marine life. Known as Lord Howe Rise, the vast underwater landscape largely exists outside state maritime boundaries, beneath the high seas. That makes the ecologically-rich habitat fair game for industrial fishing, including long-lining and bottom-trawling techniques in the spotlight following the latest instalment from acclaimed nature documentarian David Attenborough. Footage in Ocean powerfully reveals to viewers for the first time, trawlers dragging heavy nets across the sea bed in an indiscriminate search for just a few prized species. As well as scooping up vast volumes of bycatch, such trawling has been found to churn up carbon that would have otherwise stayed locked in place on the sea floor, some of which ends up in the atmosphere to fuel climate change. The documentary lands ahead of a major United Nations ocean conference in France in June. Conservation groups are hopeful the film will help garner support for a landmark treaty to better protect the roughly two-thirds of marine habitat outside the boundaries of individual countries. The high seas biodiversity agreement would lay the foundations to safeguard 30 per cent of the world's oceans by 2030 in marine sanctuaries, helping preserve threatened species and support fish stocks for communities reliant on the food source. Australia was a founding signatory to the agreement in 2023 and the re-elected Albanese government has promised to ratify its commitment "as quickly as possible", according to thee Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. "Australia is one of a small number of countries that requires implementing legislation to be in place before the treaty can be ratified," a spokesperson says. A multi-agency government delegation still being finalised is set to attend to conference in France. To bring the treaty into force, 60 countries need to enshrine the treaty in national law via ratification. So far, about 40 have either done so or signalled that they will. WWF-Australia head of oceans and sustainable development Richard Leck is confident the treaty will come into force. "But it means countries like Australia, who have indicated they support the treaty, really need to step up to their parliamentary processes and make sure that that actually gets through their systems," he says. Greenpeace Australia Pacific senior oceans campaigner Georgia Whittaker says marine animals are being "pushed closer to the brink of extinction" every day that passes without stronger protections. Fresh analysis of fisheries data from the environmental campaigners reveals damage caused by industrial longline fishing - long stretches of baited hooks - to shark populations. Almost half a million near-threatened blue sharks were taken as bycatch in the the central and western Pacific in 2023, the highest number ever recorded and double 2015 numbers. Greenpeace has been angling for a marine sanctuary in the Lord Howe Rise and Tasman Sea region in anticipation of the oceans treaty going ahead. Marine scientist and Research Connect Blue director Rachel Przeslawski says there is still much to learn about the diverse underwater tracts off Australia's east coast. The mighty chain of seamounts - underwater mountains - experience an inverse relationship to biodiversity to that of their on-land cousins. Life is most abundant higher on the peaks, where there's more sunlight and nutrients, with visiting humpback whales and other migratory species among the creatures found in their midst. The deeper waters of the surrounding abyssal plains tend to host sparser populations of "weird critters" that have adapted to dark, nutrient-poor and hostile conditions. Some seamounts are as shallow as 200m and a few breach the surface, Lord Howe Island and Middleton and Elizabeth reefs among them. Australian trawlers are no longer active in the area but vessels from other countries are causing damage, Dr Przeslawski tells AAP, with sea beds taking years or even decades to recover. She says any marine sanctuaries devised under a high seas agreement would ideally be completely no-take. Many existing marine parks are only partially protected, with permitted sections to be fished or mined. "Is it going to be toothless?" Dr Przeslawski asks. "Or will it actually have some bite and the ability to affect some of these really ecologically damaging activities?"
Irish Examiner
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Seafood Made Simple: Try Aishling Moore's monkfish cheek and chorizo rice recipe
I was thrilled to hear that at the age of 99 the environmental icon David Attenborough's latest National Geographic documentary would focus on the place where all life began, the ocean. I was even more delighted to learn I could go and see this in the cinema. After a lifetime of exploration and discovery, Attenborough explains he now understands the most important place on earth is not on land but at sea. Over 3bn of us across the world depend on the ocean as our primary food source. Some 2,000 new marine species are discovered every year. The film exposes the destruction of overfishing, trawling, and the devastation of dredging the ocean bed, destroying ecosystems of incomprehensible beauty and complexity. The illogical aggressive fishing of krill, a species of high importance within the ecosystem of the ocean, being used today in pet food, highlights the very real need for legislative reform. The documentary offers solutions to this carnage. Establishing marine protected areas or 'no take zones' is a proven tactic which has regenerated parts of the ocean and seen species reemerge in areas. Currently, less than 3% of the ocean is protected. According to scientists, to save and regenerate the ocean we would need to protect at least one third of it. Great success has been achieved in the Channel Islands marine sanctuary with migratory species of fish from the protected area spilling over into nearby areas increasing stocks. World leaders will meet this month in France at the 2025 Un Ocean Conference, where 'accelerating action and mobilising all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean' is on the table. Establishing marine protected areas must happen now. David Attenborough's Ocean will be available to stream on Disney on World Ocean Day, June 8. Monkfish cheek and chorizo rice recipe by:Aishling Moore This dish would also work well swapping the chorizo for smoked bacon lardons and peas for sautéed mushrooms. Servings 4 Preparation Time 10 mins Cooking Time 30 mins Total Time 40 mins Course Main Ingredients 2 tbsp rapeseed oil 1 onion, finely diced 3 garlic cloves minced 90g chorizo, diced 1 tsp smoked paprika 1 tsp dried oregano 320g Carolino rice 75ml white wine 1.2l fish stock 100g frozen peas 200g monkfish cheeks or monkfish tail cut into chunks 2 sprigs flat leaf parsley Sea salt Freshly cracked black pepper Method Preheat oven to 190˚C. In a large pot or ovenproof dish sweat the onion and garlic in rapeseed oil on a low heat for a couple of minutes until translucent. Season with sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper. Add the chorizo and increase the heat slightly. Cook for two minutes. Next add the smoked paprika and dried oregano and mix well with a wooden spoon. Add the rice and stir to coat it in the lovely chorizo-flavoured oil. Cook for one minute. While that's happening warm your stock in a separate pot, this will speed up the cooking process. Turn the heat up to medium-high and add the white wine to the rice and cook until completely evaporated. Next add the warmed stock, stir well, and bring to the boil. Taste for seasoning at this stage. Place the pot in the preheated oven and bake for 12- 15 minutes until all the stock is absorbed and the rice is cooked. You're looking for a moist, risotto-like consistency here, with the surface of the dish beginning to catch. If all the stock has been absorbed and the rice is still a little undercooked, add water and return to the oven. Once confident the rice is cooked, place the monkfish pieces and frozen peas across the top of the rice. Drizzle with a little rapeseed oil and season with sea salt. Return to the oven to bake for 3-5 minutes until the monkfish is cooked through. Finish with chopped parsley and serve. Fish tales I've used Carolina rice for this recipe but any short grain rice like bomba would also work. Instead of monkfish cheeks you could use chunks of cod, hake and pollock or skinned fillets of brill, megrim and plaice which will cook just as quickly. When warming the stock, be careful not to over reduce which will upset the quantities of liquid needed to cook the rice. I like this method of finishing in the oven as you achieve a variance in texture between the exposed surface area colouring and catching a little and the risotto-like texture beneath. You could cook this the whole way on the stove. If you do so, stir regularly to prevent the base of the pot from catching. I've used a fish stock for this recipe, but vegetable stock or a light chicken stock would also work. This dish would also work well swapping the chorizo for smoked bacon lardons and peas for sautéed mushrooms. Read More Seafood Made Simple: My chilli oil recipe is perfect for salads, rice and these steamed mussels
Perth Now
8 hours ago
- General
- Perth Now
High sea hopes for treaty to preserve vast underwater
Between Australia and New Zealand sits a chain of underwater volcanoes that are home to an abundance of fish, ancient corals and other marine life. Known as Lord Howe Rise, the vast underwater landscape largely exists outside state maritime boundaries, beneath the high seas. That makes the ecologically-rich habitat fair game for industrial fishing, including long-lining and bottom-trawling techniques in the spotlight following the latest instalment from acclaimed nature documentarian David Attenborough. Footage in Ocean powerfully reveals to viewers for the first time, trawlers dragging heavy nets across the sea bed in an indiscriminate search for just a few prized species. As well as scooping up vast volumes of bycatch, such trawling has been found to churn up carbon that would have otherwise stayed locked in place on the sea floor, some of which ends up in the atmosphere to fuel climate change. The documentary lands ahead of a major United Nations ocean conference in France in June. Conservation groups are hopeful the film will help garner support for a landmark treaty to better protect the roughly two-thirds of marine habitat outside the boundaries of individual countries. The high seas biodiversity agreement would lay the foundations to safeguard 30 per cent of the world's oceans by 2030 in marine sanctuaries, helping preserve threatened species and support fish stocks for communities reliant on the food source. Australia was a founding signatory to the agreement in 2023 and the re-elected Albanese government has promised to ratify its commitment "as quickly as possible", according to thee Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. "Australia is one of a small number of countries that requires implementing legislation to be in place before the treaty can be ratified," a spokesperson says. A multi-agency government delegation still being finalised is set to attend to conference in France. To bring the treaty into force, 60 countries need to enshrine the treaty in national law via ratification. So far, about 40 have either done so or signalled that they will. WWF-Australia head of oceans and sustainable development Richard Leck is confident the treaty will come into force. "But it means countries like Australia, who have indicated they support the treaty, really need to step up to their parliamentary processes and make sure that that actually gets through their systems," he says. Greenpeace Australia Pacific senior oceans campaigner Georgia Whittaker says marine animals are being "pushed closer to the brink of extinction" every day that passes without stronger protections. Fresh analysis of fisheries data from the environmental campaigners reveals damage caused by industrial longline fishing - long stretches of baited hooks - to shark populations. Almost half a million near-threatened blue sharks were taken as bycatch in the the central and western Pacific in 2023, the highest number ever recorded and double 2015 numbers. Greenpeace has been angling for a marine sanctuary in the Lord Howe Rise and Tasman Sea region in anticipation of the oceans treaty going ahead. Marine scientist and Research Connect Blue director Rachel Przeslawski says there is still much to learn about the diverse underwater tracts off Australia's east coast. The mighty chain of seamounts - underwater mountains - experience an inverse relationship to biodiversity to that of their on-land cousins. Life is most abundant higher on the peaks, where there's more sunlight and nutrients, with visiting humpback whales and other migratory species among the creatures found in their midst. The deeper waters of the surrounding abyssal plains tend to host sparser populations of "weird critters" that have adapted to dark, nutrient-poor and hostile conditions. Some seamounts are as shallow as 200m and a few breach the surface, Lord Howe Island and Middleton and Elizabeth reefs among them. Australian trawlers are no longer active in the area but vessels from other countries are causing damage, Dr Przeslawski tells AAP, with sea beds taking years or even decades to recover. She says any marine sanctuaries devised under a high seas agreement would ideally be completely no-take. Many existing marine parks are only partially protected, with permitted sections to be fished or mined. "Is it going to be toothless?" Dr Przeslawski asks. "Or will it actually have some bite and the ability to affect some of these really ecologically damaging activities?"
West Australian
8 hours ago
- General
- West Australian
High sea hopes for treaty to preserve vast underwater
Between Australia and New Zealand sits a chain of underwater volcanoes that are home to an abundance of fish, ancient corals and other marine life. Known as Lord Howe Rise, the vast underwater landscape largely exists outside state maritime boundaries, beneath the high seas. That makes the ecologically-rich habitat fair game for industrial fishing, including long-lining and bottom-trawling techniques in the spotlight following the latest instalment from acclaimed nature documentarian David Attenborough. Footage in Ocean powerfully reveals to viewers for the first time, trawlers dragging heavy nets across the sea bed in an indiscriminate search for just a few prized species. As well as scooping up vast volumes of bycatch, such trawling has been found to churn up carbon that would have otherwise stayed locked in place on the sea floor, some of which ends up in the atmosphere to fuel climate change. The documentary lands ahead of a major United Nations ocean conference in France in June. Conservation groups are hopeful the film will help garner support for a landmark treaty to better protect the roughly two-thirds of marine habitat outside the boundaries of individual countries. The high seas biodiversity agreement would lay the foundations to safeguard 30 per cent of the world's oceans by 2030 in marine sanctuaries, helping preserve threatened species and support fish stocks for communities reliant on the food source. Australia was a founding signatory to the agreement in 2023 and the re-elected Albanese government has promised to ratify its commitment "as quickly as possible", according to thee Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. "Australia is one of a small number of countries that requires implementing legislation to be in place before the treaty can be ratified," a spokesperson says. A multi-agency government delegation still being finalised is set to attend to conference in France. To bring the treaty into force, 60 countries need to enshrine the treaty in national law via ratification. So far, about 40 have either done so or signalled that they will. WWF-Australia head of oceans and sustainable development Richard Leck is confident the treaty will come into force. "But it means countries like Australia, who have indicated they support the treaty, really need to step up to their parliamentary processes and make sure that that actually gets through their systems," he says. Greenpeace Australia Pacific senior oceans campaigner Georgia Whittaker says marine animals are being "pushed closer to the brink of extinction" every day that passes without stronger protections. Fresh analysis of fisheries data from the environmental campaigners reveals damage caused by industrial longline fishing - long stretches of baited hooks - to shark populations. Almost half a million near-threatened blue sharks were taken as bycatch in the the central and western Pacific in 2023, the highest number ever recorded and double 2015 numbers. Greenpeace has been angling for a marine sanctuary in the Lord Howe Rise and Tasman Sea region in anticipation of the oceans treaty going ahead. Marine scientist and Research Connect Blue director Rachel Przeslawski says there is still much to learn about the diverse underwater tracts off Australia's east coast. The mighty chain of seamounts - underwater mountains - experience an inverse relationship to biodiversity to that of their on-land cousins. Life is most abundant higher on the peaks, where there's more sunlight and nutrients, with visiting humpback whales and other migratory species among the creatures found in their midst. The deeper waters of the surrounding abyssal plains tend to host sparser populations of "weird critters" that have adapted to dark, nutrient-poor and hostile conditions. Some seamounts are as shallow as 200m and a few breach the surface, Lord Howe Island and Middleton and Elizabeth reefs among them. Australian trawlers are no longer active in the area but vessels from other countries are causing damage, Dr Przeslawski tells AAP, with sea beds taking years or even decades to recover. She says any marine sanctuaries devised under a high seas agreement would ideally be completely no-take. Many existing marine parks are only partially protected, with permitted sections to be fished or mined. "Is it going to be toothless?" Dr Przeslawski asks. "Or will it actually have some bite and the ability to affect some of these really ecologically damaging activities?"
UPI
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
Madame Tussauds London unveils wax sculpture of a Greggs Sausage Roll
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Madame Tussauds London (@madametussauds) May 29 (UPI) -- Famed wax museum Madame Tussauds London unveiled its latest recreation of one of Britain's most beloved icons: a sausage roll from bakery chain Greggs. The museum showcased the Greggs Sausage Roll wax sculpture in the run-up to National Sausage Roll Day, which falls on June 5. "For a limited time only, the beloved British classic has secured a top spot in our Baker Street attraction's Culture Capital Zone alongside the likes of Sir David Attenborough, Stormzy and William Shakespeare," Madame Tussauds said in a news release. The Culture Capital Zone is "dedicated to those who've helped shape the landscape of British culture; from trailblazing artists to political giants and now, the golden, flakey pastry icon of British cuisine," the museum said. The Greggs Sausage Roll is a savory treat made by wrapping a sausage in puff pastry and baking it. "We're absolutely thrilled that Madame Tussauds London has chosen to honor the Greggs Sausage Roll in such a unique and iconic way," Greggs CEO Rosin Currie said. "It's a true celebration of a national favorite, and we couldn't think of a more fitting tribute in the lead-up to National Sausage Roll Day. Seeing our Sausage Roll receive the celebrity treatment is a proud and slightly surreal moment for all of us at Greggs."
