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If someone is doing “everything he was supposed to be doing in terms of location and procedures to avoid bird interactions“, and still trawled over and killed 207 native birds at once... perhaps trawling is inherently destructive and shouldn't be done at all.
'Unacceptable': Forest & Bird demands action after hundreds of native seabirds killed in trawler catch
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564375/unacceptable-forest-and-bird-demands-action-after-hundreds-of-native-seabirds-killed-in-trawler-catch
Many people are saying this.
(and better late than never)
Bottom trawling doomed after Attenborough film
https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/bottom-trawling-doomed-after-attenborough-film
no paywall: https://archive.ph/F0TKb
Remember that David Attenborough's Ocean is now streaming on Disney Plus or NatGeo.
It's unmissable.
We must end the indefensible, destructive practice of bottom trawling for the ocean to thrive.
If we save the ocean, we save our planet.
️ Ring ring! The ocean called. It wants its biodiversity back
World leaders are having a nice time in Nice, where they’re supposed to be ratifying a treaty that would protect our oceans.
We’re asking them to answer the call, and meet the deadline they set themselves. We need at least 60 countries to make the treaty law to make it legally binding.
If you want to help, sign the petition to call on governments to seas the moment and create ocean sanctuaries.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/ocean-sanctuaries/
when Seafood NZ says it was just a "rare mistake" that bottom trawlers hauled up 6 tonnes of coral earlier this year:
(based only on reported bycatch, there is certainly more that goes unreported)
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