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India Today
25-04-2025
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- India Today
David Attenborough launches new initiative to protect 30% of world's oceans
Oceans surrounding the countries of Britain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Mexico, the Philippines, and Indonesia are witnessing the effects of overfishing on their marine along with climate change, has become a major cause of disturbing the biodiversity of the tackle this, a new initiative is being launched by British naturalist David Attenborough to help communities profit from the efforts to protect at least 30% of the world's oceans by the decade's This initiative is led by the NGO Dynamic Planet and the National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas programme and will assist local communities in their efforts to establish "marine protected areas" in coastal waters."The worst enemy of fishing is overfishing," Enric Sala, executive director of National Geographic Pristine Seas told Reuters. Implementation of this treaty in the present year is essential to meet the global targets. (Photo: Getty) The researchers also mentioned that protecting marine areas would have economic benefits, by improving fishing yields and boosting also said Marine Protected Areas (MPA) creation has been far too slow, noting that more than 190,000 protected areas would need to be established in order to meet the "30 by 30" target - to bring 30% of the oceans under formal protection by marine life revives local economies and communities. It's time for the world to recognise that MPAs are the building blocks of the blue economy," said Kristin Rechberger, the founder of Revive Our Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement, which was signed in 2023 to protect ocean biodiversity, was signed by more than 100 countries, but ratified by just countries, except the United States, are meeting in New York this year to discuss further measures to be taken. Whereas the treaty needs ratification by 60 countries to come into force."Countries are pulling out all the stops to fast-track ratification in several places," said Rebecca Hubbard, director of the High Seas of this treaty in the present year is essential to meet the global targets, as only 8% or 29 million square kilometres of oceans are protected.
Al Etihad
24-04-2025
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- Al Etihad
'Revive Our Ocean' initiative, backed by David Attenborough, launched to protect coastal waters
24 Apr 2025 18:29 SINGAPORE (REUTERS)A new initiative backed by British naturalist David Attenborough was launched on Thursday to help communities profit from efforts to protect at least 30% of the world's oceans by the end of the initiative, dubbed Revive Our Ocean, is led by the NGO Dynamic Planet, together with the National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas programme, and will assist local communities in their efforts to establish "marine protected areas" in coastal will focus initially on tackling overfishing and ocean climate impacts in Britain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Mexico, the Philippines, and Indonesia."The worst enemy of fishing is overfishing," said Enric Sala, executive director of National Geographic Pristine behind the initiative said that establishing marine protected areas would also have economic benefits, noting a study showing that they improved fishing yields and also boosted tourism."Marine protected areas are good businesses," said Kristin Rechberger, the founder of Revive Our also said MPA creation has been far too slow, noting that more than 190,000 protected areas would need to be established in order to meet the "30 by 30" target - to bring 30% of the oceans under formal protection by 2030."Reviving marine life revives local economies and communities. It's time for the world to recognise that MPAs are the building blocks of the blue economy," Rechberger are meeting in New York this week to discuss how to implement and finance a global treaty agreed in 2023 to protect ocean biodiversity. The treaty will go into effect once it has been formally ratified by 60 more than 100 countries signed the treaty, only 21 have ratified it. More ratifications are expected ahead of the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference in France in June."Countries are really pulling out all the stops to fast track ratification in a number of places," said Rebecca Hubbard, director of the High Seas Alliance, a coalition of environmental groups say the agreement needs to come into effect this year if the world is to meet its target. Currently, only about 8% - or 29 million square kilometres - is protected.
Reuters
24-04-2025
- General
- Reuters
'Revive Our Ocean' initiative launched to protect coastal waters
SINGAPORE, April 24 (Reuters) - A new initiative backed by British naturalist David Attenborough was launched on Thursday to help communities profit from efforts to protect at least 30% of the world's oceans by the end of the decade. The initiative, dubbed Revive Our Ocean, is led by the NGO Dynamic Planet together with the National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas programme and will assist local communities in their efforts to establish "marine protected areas" in coastal waters. here. It will focus initially on tackling overfishing and ocean climate impacts in Britain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Mexico, the Philippines and Indonesia. "The worst enemy of fishing is overfishing," said Enric Sala, executive director of National Geographic Pristine Seas. Organisers behind the initiative said that establishing marine protected areas would also have economic benefits, noting a study showing that they improved fishing yields and also boosted tourism. "Marine protected areas are good businesses," said Kristin Rechberger, the founder of Revive Our Ocean. They also said MPA creation has been far too slow, noting that more than 190,000 protected areas would need to be established in order to meet the "30 by 30" target - to bring 30% of the oceans under formal protection by 2030. "Reviving marine life revives local economies and communities. It's time for the world to recognize that MPAs are the building blocks of the blue economy," Rechberger said. Countries are meeting in New York this week to discuss how to implement and finance a global treaty agreed in 2023 to protect ocean biodiversity. The treaty will go into effect once it has been formally ratified by 60 governments. Though more than 100 countries signed the treaty, only 21 have ratified it. More ratifications are expected ahead of the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference in France in June. "Countries are really pulling out all the stops to fast track ratification in a number of places," said Rebecca Hubbard, director of the High Seas Alliance, a coalition of environmental groups. Environmental groups say the agreement needs to come into effect this year if the world is to meet its target. Currently, only about 8% - or 29 million square kilometres - is protected. Though the United States was involved in setting up the treaty, it has been absent from this week's negotiations, and is now not expected to ratify it.
