Tag: oceans

Greenpeace | Supertrawlers exposed

Posted on June 12, 2020June 17, 2020 by Charlie

A recent Guardian article quoted campaigners saying that so-called supertrawlers spent almost 3,000 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas in 2019, making “a mockery of the word ‘protected’.” The article was based on data from Greenpeace to show that trawlers over 100 metres spent 2,963 hours – the equivalent of more than 123 days – fishing in UK MPAs in 2019. While banning all supertrawlers full stop would be preferable, Greenpeace have launched a petition calling on the government to ban supertrawlers in UK Marine Protected Areas.

Exploring Animal Culture

Posted on May 4, 2020May 5, 2020 by Charlie

Last week we published a podcast with Philippa Brakes on Animal Culture and Conservation’. Philippa is a Research Fellow at Whale and Dolphin Conservation, and in the text to promote the interview we quoted from two articles that she had co-written on how animal culture needed to be taken into account when considering their conservation. These are huge ideas, and there is no doubt at all that integrating an appreciation of how important animal culture is to wildlife is an angle well worth exploring.

Podcast: Checking in with Margaux Dodds, Marine Connection

Posted on April 24, 2020April 26, 2020 by Charlie

Here at The War on Wildlife Project we were thinking that as us campaigners, conservationists, and activists can’t get out to meet and see each other now, how about creating something to bring the conservation community together – everyone from individuals to grassroots organisations to larger charities – something that reminds us all that we’re still out there, still working, but that also shows the human side of things during this COVID-19 crisis. We could think of them as ‘check-ins’ – as in ‘checking-in to make sure we’re all okay’.

Podcast: Philippa Brakes | Animal Culture and Conservation

Posted on April 17, 2020May 5, 2020 by Charlie

While researching for a series of podcasts looking at how the Covid-19 pandemic was impacting conservation Charlie Moores was put in touch with Phillipa Brakes, a research fellow at Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Philippa and Charlie had spoken before and at the time had prepped a podcast on animal sentience which they’d not been able to record. Charlie had planned to pick up on the subject again – but read a relatively short paper that Philippa had co-written on how animal culture needed to be taken into account when considering their conservation, which included striking sentences such as: “most profoundly, culture can play a causal role in establishing and maintaining distinct evolutionary trajectories”. Discuss, indeed!

Podcast: Checking in with Erich Hoyt, Research Fellow at Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Posted on April 8, 2020April 15, 2020 by Charlie

Blobs, Garbage Patches, and Dead Zones

Posted on January 20, 2020April 9, 2020 by Charlie

Just what kind of waters will our not-so-distant relatives soon find lapping around their ankles? Our once pristine seas are rapidly resembling a microplastic cocktail blended with a large shot of fertiliser and sewage. We’ve given the worst areas names. All of which, writes Charlie Moores, means catastrophe for marine wildlife and seabirds.

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