Latest IUCN Red List evaluation at #IUCNCongress presenting status of #sharks & #rays. Sobering. #Overfishing & #bycatch continues. Please don't "like" this but share it.

Good news or...wool over someone's eyes? "Seven most commercially fished #tuna species showed signs of recovery[...] but many regional tuna stocks remain severely depleted." "37% of the world’s #sharks and #rays now threatened with extinction primarily due to overfishing".

Ocean Influencers has started! Here are some students of the #OceanInfluencers team, just before performing the first set of interviews on #Oceanliteracy! The project is organized within MIO-ECSDE's "Mediterranean Action Day 2021", supported by the EU LIFE Programme.

Briefing onboard before interviews. #Oceanliteracy, topics of the day: #marinelitter and #seafloordestruction! 📽️Let's ciak...! MIO-ECSDE LIFE Programme APT Gorizia

Here we are!

Our Ocean Influencers project is among the finalists for the EU4Ocean in Action award webgate.ec.europa.eu/maritimeforum/… The online vote is now open! How to do? (1) Check out the list of finalists here bit.ly/3KVJATR (2) vote Ocean Influencers on bit.ly/39MYGOF by May 16th

"EU4Ocean in action"award 📢Yesterday on the occasion of the EMD 2022 ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffair… the winning projects were announced,taking into account the results of online voting. "Ocean Influencers" did not reach the top 3,but a heartfelt thanks goes to all those who voted us♥️