The deep sea is a treasure trove of biodiversity and home to untold wonders and possibilities. It is also one of our best allies against climate change. But a threat is coming: deep sea mining.

The good news is we can stop this industry before it’s too late. But we don’t have much time.

Deep sea mining companies, including Canada-based ‘The Metals Company’, are pressuring our governments to let them go several kilometers below the surface of the ocean, and chew up the seabed to extract metals. If this industry is given the green light, gigantic machines weighing more than a blue whale will be lowered onto the ocean floor to plunder these pristine ocean ecosystems.

This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Help us stop another extractive industry from damaging the global oceans.

Canada announced its support for a moratorium on deep sea mining in 2023 [1]. Now it must join other global governments in ensuring these calls of support become a reality to ensure this industry stops before it starts and the deep ocean is protected.

Sign this petition to tell the Canadian government to hold the line and actively engage with other countries to convince them to make a deep sea mining moratorium a reality.

• Petition

• Source article

Papers and articles on deep sea biodiversity

• Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable
• Deep sea biodiversity and conservation
• Shedding Light on Deep-Sea Biodiversity—A Highly Vulnerable Habitat in the Face of Anthropogenic Change
• Deep-Sea Ecosystems: Biodiversity and Anthropogenic Impacts
• A decade to study deep-sea life
• @cohentheblue@ohai.social/113737255689180230">Mastodon Thread
  • Nodules in the deep sea may be a source of ‘dark oxygen’ Scottish Association for Marine Science

#StopDeepSeaMining,#Greenpeace

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Back in October, there was a Major oil spill in Mauritius. Thanks to other news, this has largely been forgotton about.

This is the worst ecological disaster that the country has ever known.  

Before the leak was stopped, around 1000 tonnes of oil leaked from the ship and severely contaminated the precious shoreline and lagoons.

A reminder that this happened, an article from, back in October, by Ecowatch is here

Really good article, if there is a follow up to show what the long term consequences of this were I will post it.

For anyone unsure of where Mauritius is, there is a map below from Open Street Map.

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REFERENCES

• Greenpeace
• Greenpeace Mastodon
• Ecowatch
• Open Street Map

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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Oil,#Spill,#Mauritius,#Greenpeace,#October20,Ecologial,#Wildlife,#Environment

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