Sentences with phrase «ocean protection groups»

First proposed back in 1992 at the Earth Summit by the Government of Canada, it took activists from Oceana and and other conservation and ocean protection groups signing petitions by the thousands to get the UN to finally make it official.

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This environmental protection group works with businesses, elected officials and community groups on issues such as global warming, reviving the oceans, clean water and sustainable communities.

Should the impasse not be resolved, the group asks the federal government to utilize all appropriate federal powers at their disposal, including expanding, if required, the Ocean Protection Plan to ensure the Trans Mountain pipeline project proceeds without further delay.

The Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy program has set its sights on two further massive protection areas in the near future: they hope to see New Zealand approve a 630,000 square km area in the Kermadec Islands later this year, and Australia protect 900,000 square km in the Coral Sea in 2012.

Two years later a coalition of green groups led by NRDC and including the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the League for Coastal Protection, Cetacean Society International, and Ocean Futures Society upped the ante, asking the federal courts to also restrict testing of more intense, harmful and far ranging mid-frequency types of sonar off Southern California's coastline.

A group of scientists and representatives of indigenous Arctic communities has identified areas around the Arctic Ocean that they consider especially worthy of consideration for protection as sea ice recedes and industry poises to enter the increasingly accessible high northern latitudes.

The study by the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP), a United Nations advisory body, provides a new estimate of the extent that human beings are altering the cycling of nitrogen in the oceans.

Media release: Conservation groups are putting the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans on notice as the groups race to secure protection for endangered Southern Resident killer whales...

Conservation groups produce analysis showing protection for 35m hectares of ocean will be downgraded

This Digest is a faithful summary of the leading scientific consensus report produced in 2010 by The Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP):» Proceedings of the GESAMP International Workshop on micro - plastic particles as a vector in transporting persistent, bio - accumulating and toxic substances in the oceans» Learn more...

This has everything to do with changes in the rate and orientation of Earth's rotation, gravitational fields, and crust, according to an April 2017 study conducted by a seven - scientist working group of the California Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team.

Prior to that, Casey co-founded with her former husband, the American Oceans Campaign (AOC), a non-profit response and advocacy group for the protection of our oceans which has since merged with OOceans Campaign (AOC), a non-profit response and advocacy group for the protection of our oceans which has since merged with Ooceans which has since merged with Oceana.

For her Group Project, Klein and fellow classmates Allison Chan, Amanda Cundiff, Nadia Gardner, Yvana Hrovat, and Lindsay Kircher worked with faculty advisor Bruce Kendall and their clients, Satie Airamé, who was then with the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) and is now the Bren School assistant dean for academic affairs, and the Scientific Advisory Team to California's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA), of which Bren School dean Steve Gaines was a member.

Greenpeace, which is among a number of conservation groups and governments pushing for expanded marine reserves in the Southern Ocean, is calling on krill - buying companies to stop purchasing catch from vessels that fish in areas that are currently under consideration for protection by the CCAMLR.

He claims that the federal government is adequately protecting the coast of British Columbia with its Ocean Protection Plan, a $ 1.5 - billion plan that promotes marine safety and responsible shipping and has consulted over one hundred Indigenous groups who may potentially be affected by the project.