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Greenpeace planning ‘boulder barrier’ in Cornish marine protected zone

Environmental activists are preparing to drop boulders into waters off the coast of Cornwall in a bid to protect rare sea-bed habitat from bottom trawler fishing. Greenpeace UK wants to create a barrier in South West Deeps, a designated marine ...

15 Aug 2022 at 01:01

Local News

North Donegal coast identified as potential marine protected area

North Donegal's coast has been identified as high biodiversity ‘Area of Interest’ for potential Marine Protected Area (MPA) designation, in a recent report by Fair Seas, a coalition of Irish environmental non-governmental organizations ...

29 Jul 2022 at 15:33

Local News

North Donegal coast identified as potential marine protected area

29 Jul 2022 at 15:33

Scotland

New marine protected area plan requires ‘radical rethink’, says fishing group

Leading representatives of Scotland’s fishing industry have called on the Scottish Government to have a “radical rethink” on its plans to introduce new conservation zones at sea. The newly proposed Highly Protected ...

20 Mar 2023 at 00:01

Public urged to avoid harbour after oil leak causes major incident

Public urged to avoid harbour in Dorset after oil leak causes major incident

Members of the public have been urged to avoid using the water and beaches within Poole Harbour in Dorset after an oil leak led to a major incident being declared. Poole Harbour Commissioners (PHC), which ...

27 Mar 2023 at 09:20

Seven sites receive Government backing to gain Unesco World Heritage status

Seven sites have received Government backing to win Unesco World Heritage status, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced. York city centre, Birkenhead Park and an Iron Age ...

10 Apr 2023 at 11:59

World

Dominica sets up world’s first sperm whale reserve

The tiny Caribbean island of Dominica is creating the world’s first marine protected area for one of Earth’s largest animals: the endangered sperm whale. Nearly 300 square miles (800 sq km) of ...

14 Nov 2023 at 11:38

Fishing boats trawled protected areas for more than 7,000 hours, analysis shows

UK and EU fishing vessels spent more than 7,000 hours trawling the bottom of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) during 2022, according to new analysis. Data supplied by Global Fishing Watch (GFW) ...

02 Mar 2023 at 00:01

UK undermining its credibility at global ocean treaty talks, say campaigners

The UK is undermining itself at a UN negotiation to safeguard the world’s oceans because it allows fishing in protected areas off the British coast, campaigners have said. Officially called ...

24 Feb 2023 at 02:45

Huge reduction in damaging fishing in Dogger Bank following ban

Damaging trawling of the seabed in a marine protected area dropped 98% after a ban came into force – showing the effectiveness of such moves, campaigners said. The number of hours of ...

14 Dec 2022 at 01:01

Scotland

Need to protect marine areas has ‘never been greater’, ministers told

The introduction of measures to prevent “damaging” activities in many of Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has “stalled”, environmental campaigners claimed. While green ...

12 Aug 2024 at 00:01

‘Error of law’ made in consents for new oil and gas fields, court told

Legal challenge to oil field approvals gets under way with first submission

An environmental group has told a court a “substantive error of law” was made when consent was granted for new oil and gas fields in Scottish waters. Greenpeace and Uplift ...

12 Nov 2024 at 20:52

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