It really is heart breaking. Sustainable catch limits mean MORE fish in the long term. Everyone should be behind this.

📢 Over 80 conservation organisations, land-managers and rural businesses have written to Government to warn that exempting sub-0.5 ha sites from BNG would remove 97% of planning applications from the UK’s only national nature compliance market.

Gross gross gross. And incredibly destructive.

Big Oil is pushing through 22 new oil fields in but we've exposed the true ocean impact of each one 🌊⚠️ Big Oil is playing games with our seas & "allowing any of these fields to proceed makes losers of us all" ❌ @oceanographicmag.bsky.social 🔽 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...

500 govt meetings with oil lobbyists last year ✓ 22 new oil fields pending ✓ 8 fields in or next to marine PROTECTED areas ✓ Our govt considering the true ocean impact ❌ Game over. The #OilFieldFiles are public. 📧 Email your MP to stop this → act.oceana.org/page/171529/...

BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank. In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project. Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.

Desperately bleak new report from @oceanauk.bsky.social on the UK's collapsing fish stocks. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520088...

🚨 BREAKING: Half the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited 🐟 We’ve done one of the most comprehensive health checks of UK seas & the data is undeniable ⚠️ #Overfishing is emptying our seas, & it’s a political choice 📩 Tell PM Keir Starmer to act: act.oceana.org/page/178303/...

“Our warnings [...] were ignored, & since then we've had to watch helplessly as the UK Govt sold out our seas & communities, allowing fishing pressure to build relentlessly as [...] industrial vessels squeezed out the small local boats" @hugotagholm.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

🌊 Scientist, adventurer & wildlife filmmaker Lizzie Daly calls out the devastation bottom-trawl fishing is inflicting on UK marine protected areas 🚨 Please help put a stop to this! Time is running out to have your say. ⌛ Take action with us here: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c... ✊

⚠️UK Govt is being urged to back 'bespoke' oil & gas licences 😡 This threatens our seas & climate, whilst doing NOTHING for our energy security. 'Bespoke' or not, government has already promised to END new oil & gas licensing @stopcambo.bsky.social www.businessgreen.com/news/4518193...

🚨 JUST IN: Ocean Minister Emma Hardy has officially announced the UK Govt’s proposal to extend bottom trawling bans in English protected areas. If total bans go ahead this is a HUGE WIN! 🎉   Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social delves into what we need to do to make sure this happens✊🌊

🚨 BREAKING: Govt is proposing bottom trawling bans in English offshore marine protected areas at #UNOC2025 🌊 Many would be FULL bans across the WHOLE site! If implemented this could protect 30,000km² of seabed 🪸That's DOUBLE the size of all England’s national parks put together! 🧵🔽

🎉 HUGE NEWS: The EU Court has confirmed marine protected areas must be PROPERLY protected from bottom trawling! Countries must act to fulfil their legal duty to safeguard these areas from destruction. This is an absolute WIN for our ocean. 🙌 1/2 www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

A brilliant WIN! Access to nature is vital and everyone should be able to have the thrill of sleeping out under the stars. We won't protect what we don't know. Huge kudos to those who have campaigned on this issue. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

❌ 20,000+ hours of suspected bottom trawling WRECKED UK marine protected areas last year. 🚫 It’s a scandal. A ban is CRITICAL.   Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social explains why there’s hope, but only if we act now.   👉 Email govt to demand a ban: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

❌ Promise made. Promise broken? The UK Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, VOWED to end bottom trawling. A year on, and we are STILL waiting. 3/4 🔽

After David Attenborough's heartbreaking documentary we ran the numbers on bottom-trawl fishing in UK marine 'protected' areas. It's not good 👇

This is heartbreaking and enraging but also hugely motiviating. We need to ACT on bottom trawling in marine protected areas NOW. Here's how you can do that: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

🚨 BREAKING: The UK's sandeel ban will stay in place in a VICTORY for the ocean & science! 🌊🎉 🐟 #Sandeels are vital food for puffins, porpoises & cod. Although the EU won its challenge to the ban on paper, the court confirms it was backed by science & is VITAL to healthy seas. 1/2 ⏬

🚨🚨 Mackerel on the brink! Years of #overfishing, by the UK & others, mean it’s no longer a sustainable choice, says the Good Fish Guide. 🐟❌ We need science-backed catch limits NOW, not when it’s too late. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social you were very clear pre-election that you'd stop destructive bottom trawling ripping apart our marine havens. Where's the action for our ocean?

'Let's find peace' is a bonobo phrase using meaning more than the sum of its parts. Be more bonobo www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

During the presidential campaign, I wrote an op-ed about how Trump’s proposed policies would be bad for ocean science and conservation, and senior members of my field told me I was being unprofessional. Thinking about them as I read a news story called “the darkest day in scientific history.”

🚨 BREAKING: The Ocean vs. Big Oil showdown is TODAY.   We’re outside the Royal Courts of Justice to challenge new North Sea oil & gas licences. Here’s what’s at stake 🧵 1/5

We're here today to fight for for our beautiful UK seas to get the protection they deserve ✊️

Industrial fishing fleets are bulldozing our seabeds, even in areas that should be off-limits! 🚨 We’re demanding the UK Government BANS #bottomtrawling in marine protected areas, once and for all. 📢 Add your voice now: bit.ly/41RiLea #ForTheOcean

Today is the 58th anniversary of the Torrey Canyon disaster. 100,000 tonnes of crude oil were spilt into Cornish waters, devastating wildlife for deacdes. Today we are still watching oil tankers put our seas at risk. Time to turn back the black tide. uk.oceana.org/blog/the-nor...

Big Oil and Big Plastic go hand-in-glove we need to kick them ALL out of our seas.

🎙️ Our director @hugotagholm.bsky.social with the BBC on the North Sea oil tanker collision. 🛢️ The oil & gas industry is polluting our seas, endangering marine wildlife & putting coastal communities at risk. We NEED a just transition to renewables. 🌊

The oil tanker collision this week was a tragic accident. But our research shows that the North Sea suffered over 2 spills EVERY DAY last year. We need a solution for the North Sea, for all UK waters, to protect them from toxic spills. ❌️That solution HAS to be an end to new oil and gas.❌️

This pollution is pouring into - or very near - TWO marine protected areas. These are designated to protect: 🐬 Porpoises 🪸 Rich seabed habitats Both highly sensitive to these toxic spills.

We are monitoring this every step of the way. This shows that everywhere Big Oil goes, there are spills. Deadly, toxic, spills.

🚨 EXPOSED: Big Oil is using our seas as a dumping ground. Decades of toxic pollution is laid bare in the new map, created for the Ocean Alliance Against Offshore Drilling. Enough is enough. SEE IT 👉 stopoffshoredrilling.org.uk/map DEMAND CHANGE 👉 act.oceana.org/page/165588/...

🚨 BREAKING: UK seas are drowning in oil pollution, and #BigOil has escaped accountability for DECADES. Until now. Our shocking new map reveals the toxic oil spills darkening our #ocean. Warning: it’s horrific. 😡👇 stopoffshoredrilling.org.uk/map 🧵1/9

There's a sad irony in the typo in this Government press release. Most people want to broker agreement, not disagreement. By falsely setting up bats & newts as the enemy of development, "brokering disagreements" is exactly what they're doing - with millions who care for nature.

RIP Tim Radford, science editor at The Guardian for 25 years. As someone sending Tim stories I found him always kind, always curious, always an incredible journalist. www.theguardian.com/science/blog...

Trashing the planet while scrabbling for the last profits to add to the hoard. I know human's life spans are short but do we really care so little for future generations?

The slowest of handclaps

From the Ministry of the Bleedin' Obvious: We don’t need a review to know bottom trawling has NO PLACE in marine protected areas. Great that minister @emmahardymp.bsky.social talked about MPAs this week, but we have all we need to ACT. Director of Policy, Alec Taylor 👇 uk.oceana.org/blog/we-dont...

This is just the start of Big Oil's downfall. The #Rosebank win marks a HUGE turning point. Our Head of Comms, Daisy, reacts from Cornwall - this is only the beginning. We’re ready to take on more of these destructive decisions. Join us ✊👇 stopoffshoredrilling.org.uk 📣 BIG OIL, YOUR TIME IS UP.

🚨 BREAKING: #Rosebank has been ruled unlawful and its approval has been overturned! This is a historic moment in the fight for our #ocean, our climate, and our futures. So thrilled for our friends at @stopcambo.bsky.social on this tremendous news. 🎉

A third runway at #Heathrow in the midst of a climate emergency is a vile act of vandalism. Rachel Reeves is happy to burn the planet for a tiny (probably elusive) increment of GDP. How does this benefit us? Article coming later today.

#Sandeels were not put on this planet to line the pockets of Big Industry. They belong in the sea, where they support & sustain marine life, like #puffins, whales & porpoises. The EU must see sense and put our #ocean ahead of greed and short-term profit. 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Keir Starmer, nature harmer?

Whilst Rachel Reeves spends Davos throwing Net Zero under the bus, we've been confiscating private jets.

🗣️ "It's like ripping up an orchard to pick an apple" 🌊 @katiewhitemp.bsky.social banging the drum for our seas in Parliament today with her motion to ban #BottomTrawling from marine protected areas. We love to see it! 🙌🔽

Sandeels are a vital source of food for our ocean wildlife, from puffins to porpoises. They are NOT a vital source of food for pigs - which is what corporations want them for. Good work to the UK Government for standing strong.

🌊 We’re at Parliament today as @katiewhitemp.bsky.social introduces a motion on bottom trawling in marine protected areas. #BottomTrawling has NO place in our #ocean havens. Let’s protect what’s meant to be protected! Hoping for strong MP turnout to support this crucial cause. 👏