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To stop the deaths of countless marine animals, we need to tag fishing gear
To help stop marine animals being harmed by lost fishing gear, we’re calling on the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to ensure all...
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Celebrate World Oceans Day 2018 by fighting ghost gear with your mobile
We’re diving into Home Street, the mobile gaming app, to spread the word on lost and abandoned fishing gear, one of the most harmful threats to wildlife in our...
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Thai Union joins fight to protect animals from killer 'ghost gear'
To help protect animals from lost and abandoned fishing gear, one of the world’s largest seafood companies and tuna producers has joined the Global Ghost Gear...
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The deadliest catch: world’s biggest seafood companies can do more to address lost fishing gear
When fishing gear is lost or abandoned, it turns our oceans into a sea life death-trap – but big companies can help stop animals suffering
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The world’s biggest navies must help stop vessels fishing illegally, and save animals
We know boats fishing illegally often lose or dump nets and other equipment – and it’s killing sea animals. Now it’s time for the world’s navies to become part...
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How plastic pollution is affecting seals and other marine life
Microplastics, abandoned fishing gear and other plastic pollution are among our biggest environmental threats. It’s hurting sea animals and making them sick
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Hope for vaquitas: removing life-threatening illegal nets to help save world’s most endangered marine animal
Devastatingly, there are just 23 vaquita porpoises left on earth. Along with partners, we’re using sonar scanning technology to find lost and abandoned nets in...
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PADI to help protect thousands of marine animals by combatting ‘ghost gear’
By joining the Global Ghost Gear Initiative that we founded in 2015, the association will encourage millions of scuba divers to help reduce lost and abandoned...
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The ghostly 600-year-old predators killing more than 100,000 whales, dolphins, seals and turtles a year
Lost and discarded fishing nets - some bigger than football pitches - are devastating marine life up to 600 years after they were abandoned. This week we’re...
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Open for consultation: guidance to reduce marine litter and protect animals
Lost or abandoned fishing gear, or ‘ghost gear’, kills hundreds of thousands of marine animals annually. The Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) invites the...
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