Number 3⃣0⃣: Today, we 🖋️our next grant agreement. We support Rare with €3.8 Million to protect marine biodiv & empower coastal communities in Honduras 🇭🇳 #OceanOptimism funded by 🇩🇪🇸🇪🇫🇷🇳🇴🇮🇪

Did you know that destructive bottom trawling fishing takes place in 90% of 🇪🇺 offshore so-called Marine 'Protected' Areas? This #MPADay we call on leaders to step up their ambition to *actually* protect Marine Protected Areas & #BanBottomTrawling! 🐟🪸🌊eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/eu-marin…

The International Seabed Authority elects a SG on 2 August. Here is an op-ed I wrote trying to explain some of the reasons why the #ISA need to change course #ReformTheISA 🧵📷 x.com/slosada/status…

Meanwhile in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 ... Exciting news indeed 🦈 BlueActionFund

Big congratulations to Leticia Carvalho on her election as ISBA-HQ Secretary-General! I've seen Leticia's commitment to ocean conservation firsthand at UN Environment Programme - from action on coral reefs to #BBNJ work. Look forward to ongoing work between UN Environment Programme and ISBA-HQ to protect our oceans.

Meanwhile in Tanzania🇹🇿...

Marine transboundary conservation areas (TCAs) are critical tools to protect ecosystems transcending natl. jurisdictions. Learn more about design & mgmt challenges, drawing lessons from WIOMSA @wcsmarine efforts to establish Kenya-Tanzania marine TCA. tinyurl.com/tbcas

Suggestion box📬, ombudsperson🧑🏾‍🦱, Whats-App📲: our projects operate Grievance Mechanisms adjusted to local context. They help to address concerns, but also to obtain feedback & suggestions for more impact. This way, we foster projects' social sustainability right from start 🤝

I will post here less & less - mainly to encourage ocean folks to migrate to another pond that gains increasingly traction.

Great to see: Nozi Mbongwa - Project manager of our iSimangaliso grant with WildoceansSA - in podcast 'Women of Environmental Change' 🥳 🎵🎶📻tinyurl.com/23krdsma

>1 million joined 🇧🇷 sky in last 2 days. Just in case U intend to stay in contact. bbc.com/news/articles/…

#BerlinOceanDinner

Blue Sky continues to soar. 💙🌤️. Hope many of you follow 🇧🇷 colleagues and join that space (which has much better features anyway, but still misses some of you). techcrunch.com/2024/09/03/blu…

How to close gap to assess progress towards 30x30 target in the coming years, incl. in 🌊? Food for thought in run-up to #COP16. ➡️ogy.de/y3xk

Glad someone is looking into the figures Brian O'Donnell. Too little efforts to hold governments accountable on their promises to increase funding to halt biodiversity loss...

Our brand new Conservation Science and Practice on establishing MPAs in São Tomé and Príncipe is out! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… A lot of hard work by a great team implementing these efforts! Fauna & Flora Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions BlueActionFund NOVA FCSH ExeterMarine

Biodiversity still a low consideration in international finance. Article includes my 2 pennies worth... news.mongabay.com/short-article/…

The choice to leave small scale fishers with such a small amount of the Irish quota is made by our government. Article 17 of the Common Fisheries Policy allows national government to decide. Ireland chooses to make life impossible for small scale fishers.