Films
Webinar: "Deep-sea mining: A new industry threatens our ocean"
A new industry is threatening our ocean: Deep-sea mining risks destroying fragile marine ecosystems, precious habitats and undiscovered species, with potentially devastating consequences for our planet’s health, local and indigenous communities, and future generations.
Hidden by murky governance and conflicts of interest, we cannot let companies strip mine the seabed against the opposition of people, scientists, governments and many of the companies they claim they would be providing for. We urgently need to stop deep-sea mining before it has even started.
Recording of the 147th episode of Europe Calling in cooperation with the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) with:
- Steffi Lemke, German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
- Steven Trent, Executive Director and Founder of the Environmental Justice Foundation
- Dr Lisa Levin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA, one of the world's leading experts on the deep seafloor
- Claudia Becker, Senior Expert Sustainable Supply Chain Management at the car manufacturer BMW
- Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection
Ocean Defenders: capturing evidence to crack down on illegal fishing in Senegalese waters
Deadly bargain: Western markets and violence against Indigenous people
Pantanal on offer: Global markets and the destruction of the largest tropical wetland on the planet
On the Precipice: crime and corruption in Ghana's Chinese-owned trawler fleet
Fisheries that millions of Ghanaians depend on are at risk of collapse as a result of brazen illegal fishing, catastrophic overfishing by Chinese-owned industrial trawlers and a culture of corruption which has allowed these crimes to go unpunished.
EJF’s investigation draws on evidence from interviews with Ghanaian crew who have witnessed these abuses first-hand, filmed evidence, a network of informants and analysis of vessel tracking data. The picture which emerges is one of systematic corruption that enables illegal fishing and human rights abuses to go unreported and unpunished in the country’s waters. From port authorities to Navy officials, EJF alleges that the web of corruption is so deep and entangled that sustainability, and the defence of human rights, is impossible without reform.
Gamechangers: The football team scoring conservation goals
Net Free Seas: Saving Ghana's waters from plastic nets and ghost gears
We Cannot Go to the Moon: Climate Collapse and the Sámi People
The impacts of the climate crisis are keenly felt by the Sámi people, whose traditional ways of life are under threat despite their negligible contribution to global emissions. The nations, companies and people responsible for the bulk of global heating must act to end this environmental injustice.
Reports
Communities for Fisheries issue brief: July to December 2024 project update: The European Union-funded Communities for Fisheries project aims to create skilled, capable and effective community co-management associations (CMAs) to secure legal and sustainable fisheries in Liberia. This brief summarises the project’s activities during the second half of Year Five, July to December 2024.
The European Union-funded Communities for Fisheries project aims to create skilled, capable and effective community co-management associations (CMAs) to secure legal and sustainable fisheries in Liberia. This brief summarises the project’s activities during the second half of Year Five, July to December 2024.
Deutschland als Vorreiter beim Schutz der Meere – Empfehlungen für die nächste Legislaturperiode: Um unsere Zukunft zu sichern, müssen wir dafür sorgen, dass sich unsere Meere erholen und weiter gedeihen können. Dieses Kurzbriefing zeigt auf, wie die neue Bundesregierung in wichtigen Bereichen handeln kann, um unsere Meere und die Menschen, die von ihnen abhängig sind, zu schützen.
Um unsere Zukunft zu sichern, müssen wir dafür sorgen, dass sich unsere Meere erholen und weiter gedeihen können. Dieses Kurzbriefing zeigt auf, wie die neue Bundesregierung in wichtigen Bereichen handeln kann, um unsere Meere und die Menschen, die von ihnen abhängig sind, zu schützen.
From Commitments to Action: A vision for the European Ocean Pact: The ocean is increasingly under threat from destructive and illegal practices, both within and beyond Europe. The EU has the necessary tools to protect the ocean from these threats, but they are not fully implemented or enforced. The European Ocean Pact must outline actions to ensure the effective implementation of EU laws aimed at combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and protecting marine biodiversity, while preventing emerging threats such as deep-sea mining.
The ocean is increasingly under threat from destructive and illegal practices, both within and beyond Europe. The EU has the necessary tools to protect the ocean from these threats, but they are not fully implemented or enforced.
The European Ocean Pact must outline actions to ensure the effective implementation of EU laws aimed at combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and protecting marine biodiversity, while preventing emerging threats such as deep-sea mining.
Trapped at sea: exposing North Korean forced labour on China’s Indian Ocean tuna fleet: This briefing finds that a fleet of Chinese tuna fishing vessels operating in the Indian Ocean reportedly used North Koreans as crew between 2019 and 2024, likely violating UN sanctions. Many were apparently subjected to abuses, including being trapped at sea for up to a decade, on vessels involved in illegal fishing and the killing of dolphins.
This briefing finds that a fleet of Chinese tuna fishing vessels operating in the Indian Ocean reportedly used North Koreans as crew between 2019 and 2024, likely violating UN sanctions. Many were apparently subjected to abuses, including being trapped at sea for up to a decade, on vessels involved in illegal fishing and the killing of dolphins.
Lettre ouverte au Président de la République: Dans cette lettre ouverte, les membres de la campagne Protect Our Catch, dont le EJF, appellent le président Emmanuel Macron à agir pour mettre fin au chalutage de fond dans les AMP françaises.
Dans cette lettre ouverte, les membres de la campagne Protect Our Catch, dont le EJF, appellent le président Emmanuel Macron à agir pour mettre fin au chalutage de fond dans les AMP françaises.
Open Letter: President Emmanuel Macron: In this open letter, members of the Protect Our Catch campaign, including EJF, call on President Emmanuel Macron to take action to end bottom trawling in French MPAs.
In this open letter, members of the Protect Our Catch campaign, including EJF, call on President Emmanuel Macron to take action to end bottom trawling in French MPAs.