IMPAC5 announced IMPAC6 host - Senegal!! ⁦⁦IUCN⁩ 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

New paper! We discuss how #MarineProtectedAreas ( #MPAs ) with diverse fishing restrictions achieve gains for nature. We recommend that countries blend locally-appropriate protection levels — from full to partial protection — to achieve conservation goals. cc to #IMPAC5 👇🧵(1/9)

💫 Mesmerizing black and white #SundayMood

Join our #ocean literacy events at #IMPAC5 and help us preserve this incredible species by changing humanity’s relationship with the #ocean 🖤 bit.ly/3l1U24R

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#OceanDecade

#FrenchPolynesia , through the voice of Heremoana Maamaatuaiahutapu, Minister of Culture and the Environment, is proposing to close the #HighSeas to #fishing and #DeepSeaMining , starting with the #Pacific .

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✨Sylvia Earle✨has our #seaweed outreach poster Beaty Biodiversity Museum 🐳 UBC Botany 🤩😍🤯 A very kind student took a bunch to give out at #IMPAC5 and sent me this. LIFE GOAL ACHIEVED! UBC Biology UBC Science

Had to look twice as this is such a rarity. Check out the three keynote speakers at IMPAC5. Very easy once you see remove blindness and take a real look at the work through a gender and diversity lens. Well done IMPAC5 - now I wish I was there!
impac5.ca/2023/01/20/key…

Just 2km separate these two photos of the Red Sea. One was taken in a Marine Protected Area and the other in a non-protected area. Guess which one is which 🌊⬇️🚧 #30x30 #IMPAC5

⁦Peter Thomson⁩ #IMPAC5 highlights ocean connectivity in ⁦笹川平和財団海洋政策研究所 Ocean Policy Research Institute, SPF⁩ side event

Felt good to share my 1st chapter's findings on the characterisation of novel #mesophotic #kelp forests in #Galapagos , to a wonderful #IMPAC5 audience, highlighting how we can't protect biologically important communities when we don't know they exist! Charles Darwin Foundation-Fundación Charles Darwin Sylvia A. Earle

I return from IMPAC5 in Vancouver heartened by the determination of ocean activists to establish 30x30 in locations of most relevance to marine biodiversity. I remain deeply concerned re funding of MPAs & the underwhelming global response to the Global Biodiversity Framework.

We have caused enough havoc in our oceans. We must leave the deep sea alone. #StopDeepSeaMining #DefendTheDeep #IMPAC5

Awesome symposium by the University of Plymouth team IMPAC5 on the whole site approach to MPA management. Super proud to be part of this amazing group of researchers! Well done everyone! 👏 Emma Sheehan Dr Thomas Stamp Pete Davies Llucia_MascordaCabre Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies Sammy Blampied #IMPAC5

I’ve done more listening than tweeting at #IMPAC5 as there's been so much good conversation to take in. In particular, the #OceanLiteracy Dialogues have continued to expand my understanding of what ocean literacy means, what it can do and why it needs to be prioritised.

“Let’s close the #HighSeas to fishing and #DeepSeaMining . Let’s help small nations build resilient economies instead of selling fishing licences to big countries”. Agree 100% with Heremoana Maamaatuaiahutapu, Minister of Environment for #FrenchPolynesia , speaking at #IMPAC5

Big news shared today @ IMPAC5
Nuu-chah-nulth, Haida, Quatsino & Pacheedaht First Nations announce MOU agreement with DFO on the Tang.ɢwan - ḥačxwiqak - Tsig̱is Marine Protected Area

Learn more: nuuchahnulth.org/news

#nuuchahnulth #marineprotectedarea #MPA #IMPAC5

The whales have spoken.

And they want Transport Canada to stop letting ships treat their homes like a giant toilet bowl 💩🤢.

Check out this video stealthily projected onto Burrard Bridge to inform Vancouver citizens about the stakes of this decision. #impac5 Stand.earth

Watching tha amazing Asha de Vos share her story and experiences of #parashutescience and #exclusion . Thank you! Dr. Asha de Vos #impac5 IMPAC5

The world promised to protect a third of the planet at the #COP15 summit. Last week the global conservation community was in Vancouver at #IMPAC5 to figure out how this would apply to our oceans. We must seek to preserve & restore ecosystems under the waves as well as on land

The ocean is sacred.
The ocean is our own.
It is our spiritual connection to the land, the lagoon, the ocean that compells us to protect it
- Hinano Teavai-Murphy #impac5

🚨Seaweed lovers, #kelp champions, and nature nerds at #IMPAC5 🚨

The talented Bridgette Clarkston Bridgette Clarkston has kindly donated some of these 🤩 posters. I just left the last 6 at the Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition (COLC) booth. Get there quick if you want one!