Victory for the Oceans! Covert nighttime operations arrest ten poachers in Africa!
The Gambia’s waters are rich in biodiversity, making them a hotspot for illegal fishing operations.
Sam Simon and its crew have been working with local authorities to defend, conserve and protect these waters, and our most recent patrol has resulted in one of our biggest success’ in African waters.
Over the course of a week, ten trawlers were arrested, meaning that their illegal nets will no longer bring destruction to these waters.
For the Oceans.
Sea Shepherd is an international, non-profit marine conservation organization that engages in direct action campaigns to defend wildlife, and conserve and protect the world’s oceans from illegal exploitation and environmental destruction.
Wildfires may grab headlines but indigenous peoples and local communities who depend the Amazon face many different threats. Not only are their territories targeted for illegal extractive activities such as gold mining and deforestation but without clear land titles their situation remains legally precarious.
But more than this – indigenous peoples and local communities offer a scalable, climate solution, as recently recognised in the UN IPCC Land Use report.
Protecting their rights will benefit communities, the Amazon itself and all of humanity.
In the Peruvian Amazon the community of Boca Parimanu, the Amahuaca peoples tread this difficult balance.
Madre de Dios, the most biodiverse region in the Peruvian Amazon, is home to 37 native communities. This southern region is also the most affected by illegal mining, more than 60 000 hectares of forest have been deforested by this activity.
Due to its high biodiversity and extension of Amazon forest, Madre de Dios is a key region for climate commitments and the fight against the climate crisis.
Made in partnership with FENAMAD, SPDA and Land Tenure Facility.
There is a ready-made solution for climate change. When Indigenous and local people are supported, forests remain standing, biodiversity is protected and the climate benefits. You can help save forests and solve the climate crisis by supporting these communities across the world who are fighting on the front line to protect acres of tropical forests that are at risk of being destroyed.
