The Vezo, Madagascar's indigenous 'sea nomads', are travelling hundreds of miles to the remote 'Barren Isles', the Indian Ocean's largest locally-managed marine protected area, writes Charlie Gardner. Drawn by valuable shark fins and sea cucumbers, sold into Chinese markets, the Vezo are now joining with local fishers to protect the ecosystem and expel illegal divers.
… Madagascar's 'sea nomads' are the new ocean defenders … 1-cut.jpg The Vezo, Madagascar's indigenous 'sea nomads', are travelling hundreds of miles … Gardner. Drawn by valuable shark fins and sea cucumbers, sold into Chinese markets, the …
Stories told by Australia's Aboriginal peoples tell of the time, over 10,000 years ago, when the last Ice Age came to an end, and sea levels rose by 120 metres, write Nick Reid & Patrick Nunn. The narratives tally with the findings of contemporary science, raising the question: what is it about Aborigines and their culture than so accurately transmitted their oral traditions across thousands of generations?
… when the last Ice Age came to an end, and sea levels rose by 120 metres, write Nick Reid … a boat like we do today. "Then Garnguur, the seagull woman, took her raft and dragged it … across the neck of the peninsula letting the sea pour in and making our homes into …
The causes of climate change are far from their shores, but these tiny Pacific nations face growing social strife and eventual annihilation unless western governments wake up and take responsibility, argue Scott Leckie and Dan Lewis
… Climate Change Politics And Economics Rising Sea Levels Comment … of her homeland or to pursue options overseas for the country’s threatened citizens. … and Tuvalu. The choice to battle the rising seas or set one’s families up in larger, …
The political future of the Arab world's largest country could look brighter following the recent uprising in Tahrir Square and beyond. But the country faces an ecological catastrophe - much of it tourism related - reports Joseph Mayton from Cairo
… warm and sunny April afternoon on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. The sun is blazing down on dozens … across would be pristine sands on the Red Sea coast. Environmental groups in the country … implementation of green policy, along the Red Sea coast, along the Nile River and throughout …
Russia last week planted a flag on the Arctic seabed while the Canadian Prime Minister announced $57 million plans to establish military control over a key future Arctic shipping route, in symbolic moves to seize previously inaccessible Arctic fossil fuel reserves.
… exposed as climate change melts the Arctic sea-ice. 13th August 2007 News Lomonosov Ridge Artic Stephen Harper Global Warming Oil Sea Levels Climate Change Climate Change … Russia last week planted a flag on the Arctic seabed while the Canadian Prime Minister …
The reckless deep-sea gold rush that could turn the North American continental shelf into one giant factory-style fish farm
… High Seas Drifters Ben Belton | 8th July 2004 News … Pollution Archive_101.jpg The reckless deep-sea gold rush that could turn the North … momentarily as he reaches its edge, tugs at a seam, then disappears – engulfed in the mesh …
More than seven out of ten edible marine species in the EU are over-fished and coastal communities are dying. So you might think new draft reforms would help reverse this trend. Not so, says Victor Paul Borg, who investigates the impact of changes that the community fishermen themselves do not want
… shared by others, and in the course of my research a picture began to emerge of EU … artisan fishermen plying the Mediterranean Sea with the Platform representing fishermen … is the way they will refer to the sea as if it’s a sentient being. Dimitris, who …
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline
… Kepu village have eeked out a living from the sea; farming fish, collecting mussels and … surround the crumbling brick homes and disease is rife. 'My livelihood is the sea. If there is no more access to the coast …
Pacific Islanders are merging their ancestral knowledge with modern technology in an innovative attempt to combat climate change, writes EMILY EARNSHAW
… elevation of only two metres, meaning rising sea levels threaten to destroy their very … homelands as they are slowly swallowed by the sea. The islanders, however, are refusing to … prove invaluable for global environmental research; if only the rest of the world will …
An illegal road on India's Andaman Islands has already opened up a 55,000 year old tribe to disease, sexual abuse and the theft of their resources. But instead of closing the road, local politicians are upgrading it with two new bridges.
… opened up a 55,000 year old tribe to disease, sexual abuse and the theft of their … controversial road by opening an alternative sea route by March 2015 . 'No boats available' for sea route While the sea route would provide a …
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline
… Selling The Sea – revealing Indonesia’s little-known plans … Kepu village have eeked out a living from the sea; farming fish, collecting mussels and … surround the crumbling brick homes and disease is rife. To read the full investigation …
Illegal fishing to feed European demand for seafood is devastating coastal communities in The Gambia and across West Africa - forcing many people to leave their homeland and make a perilous and sometimes deadly voyage to Europe
… Illegal fishing to feed European demand for seafood is devastating coastal communities in … And move they do, often across dangerous seas in an ill-equipped pirogue (a dugout … and be a fisherman. ‘If I die going to the sea for trying to get to Europe I know that I …
The 1865 Treaty of Point Elliot is clear, writes Jan Hasselman: the Lummi Nation has the right to fish, hunt and gather in their accustomed places in perpetuity - and they can't do that if a gigantic coal terminal is built in the Salish Sea's most productive waters. First Nations' treaty rights are now central to protecting the Pacific Northwest from destruction by fossil fuels.
… gigantic coal terminal is built in the Salish Sea's most productive waters. First Nations' … Stevens and the leaders of a number of Salish Sea tribes signed the Treaty of Point Elliot . … a pristine site in one of the Salish Sea's most productive and cherished coastal …
The ancestors of America's Indians lived in Beringia - the land exposed during the last ice age that is now the Bering Strait - for millennia, genetic studies have determined. Scott Armstrong Elias reports.
… Siberia and Alaska that was dry land when sea levels were lower, as much of the world's … the waters of the Bering and Chukchi Seas. This theory has become increasingly … land bridge began to disappear beneath the sea, some 13,000 years ago. Global sea levels …
Will Day is still to prove his credentials to environmentalists as he replaces the high-profile Jonathon Porritt as the head of the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC). In one of his first media interviews, he gives the Ecologist his position on GM technology, nuclear power and the jargon of sustainability
… day with bulldozers against erosion from the sea. The Tyndall Centre has suggested that … should be prepared to to adapt to 10m of sea level rises. 'So is that a cool thing to have a nuclear power station sitting at sea level with the thought of 10m of sea …
After years of protest, plans by the Anadolu Group to build a coal power plant in the seaside town of Gerze are awaiting the go-ahead from the Turkish government. But protest group YEGEP are not giving up without a fight
… Group to build a coal power plant in the seaside town of Gerze are awaiting the … of Gerze, which nestles along Turkey’s Black Sea coastline, the events of September 5th … Gerze is also one few regions of the Black Sea Coast with a low population density. …
What's really behind the sudden global concern over the Inuit’s right to hunt - a concern that swung the polar bear vote at CITES? Luke Dale-Harris reports
… to be fed by her family, is thrown into the sea from a kayak, her fingers severed … fingers transform into whales, dolphins and seals, providing food ashore for the local people and the sea mammals' other predator, the polar bear. …
Defra's attempt to put a price tag on nature with its National Ecosystem Assessment may reinforce the dangerous conceit that our own place in ecosystems is more important than any other, argues Dr Kate Rawles
… of the space available for life is in the sea. If all life on earth were wiped out, … vice versa. And all is far from well in the sea. Over-fishing is well understood. But how … are at risk from the warming, acidifying seas they now inhabit? Biodiversity took such …
The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the industry’s by-products have permeated our lives.
… quoits, rubber cement, a surfboard, a toilet seat, an umbrella, vitamin capsules, water … picked, the apple has to travel – by air, sea or land – to the store from where it will … home in your car (look at the dashboard, the seats, the seat belts, the carpet, the …
Sustainability in danger of becoming jargon, says newly appointed green watchdog chief
… day with bulldozers against erosion from the sea. 'Is that a cool thing to have a nuclear power station sitting at sea level with the thought of 10m of sea level rise?' The SDC is due to publish a …
As a new oil-fever gathers pace in Arctic countries such as Greenland the lesson from history is that where there is oil, corruption will quickly follow. Eifion Rees reports
… Arctic, where oil-fever is increasing as sea ice recedes. In August, state oil company … for 40 billion barrels under the South Kara Sea. Meanwhile Mikhail Khodorkovsky, formerly … will make. In the meantime the rumoured sea of oil off Greenland remains elusive. The …
Dan Box makes a detour to the G20 climate protests in London, but leaves disappointed. Later, a lecture by Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern review, lifts his spirits.
… people are being evacuated ahead of rising sea levels, and the Beeb wanted me to practice … As their island homes are swallowed by rising sea levels, the people of the Carteret Islands …
A salmon fishing cooperative in the Pacific Northwest draws on indigenous practices and state of the art technology to be among the world's most sustainable and selective fisheries, writes Kevin Bailey. With its clean harvesting techniques, minmimal bycatch, 99% survival rates for released fish, renewable energy supply and efficient supply chain, it sets a standard for all to follow.
… around, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Sea Food Watch gives it a 'Best Choice' … rating. The reef-net fishery in the Salish Sea employs energy and supply-chain … pink salmon. It's only the beginning of the season - later on, one haul might net that …
What few have stopped to consider in the continuing 'battle' against Somali pirates is what industrialised nations have been doing to the country's fishing grounds for years
… left with no choice but to take to the high sea: 'We've had no government for 18 years. We have no life. Our last resource is the sea, and foreign trawlers are plundering our … have begun to develop a taste for ransom at sea. This form of piracy is now a major …