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Another spectacular beach of Anse Source d'Argent on the island of La Digue, Seychelles. March 2008. Attribution: Tobias Alt
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2025
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Five ways that illustrations can tell climate justice stories, theconversation.com (Feb 11, 2025) - A Court Says Coastal Marine Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value—and Legal Rights, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 17, 2025)
- Saving the surf is a climate solution, Grist (Jan 16, 2025)
- State of South Australia bans fishing of several endangered or critically endangered sharks and rays in its waters, news.mongabay.com (Jan 02, 2025)
2024
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- Valencia floods showed why coastal cities should restore their wetlands, theconversation.com (Dec 19, 2024)
- Saving the ‘Kidneys’ of the Great Barrier Reef, reasonstobecheerful.world (Dec 17, 2024)
- US approves first-ever tribal marine sanctuary: ‘Our community’s hard work has come to fruition’, theguardian.com (Oct 19, 2024)
- Women in the Sundarbans embracing mangrove restoration as an alternative livelihood, news.mongabay.com (Aug 15, 2024)
- Madagascar’s mangroves making a comeback, news.mongabay.com (Aug 14, 2024) — engagement with coastal communities is critical to empower those communities to protect the local mangroves that they depend on.
- ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians, theguardian.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- Barcelona protests: holiday hotspots need fairer tourism for local communities, theconversation.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- Clam gardening building resilience among Indigenous youth on Canada’s West Coast, news.mongabay.com (Aug 06, 2024)
- African island state embraces the hunters to end turtle hunting, news.mongabay.com (Jul 17, 2024)
- Community-led approach to mangrove restoration in southern Thailand based on beekeeping, news.mongabay.com (Jun 18, 2024)
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- Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)
- Rio de Janeiro bay reforestation shows mangroves’ power to mitigate climate disasters, apnews.com (May 24, 2024)
- States have legal duty to cut greenhouse emissions, says top maritime court, theguardian.com (May 21, 2024)
- South African communities vs Shell: high court victories show that cultural beliefs and practices count in climate cases, theconversation.com (May 18, 2024)
- 'I want to erase my own footprint': The women looking after an island paradise, BBC News (Apr 21, 2024)
- California's first ever U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area declared, Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Jan 29, 2024)
- Inside the DIY Movement to Fight Coastal Erosion, wired.co.uk (Jan 16, 2024)
2023
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- Collaboration involving local fishing communities helps save manatees stranded in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- Papua New Guinea's two large new marine protected areas “one of the first and most ambitious community-led MPA wins”, news.mongabay.com (Dec 14, 2023)
- We rarely hear about the disasters that were avoided – but there’s a lot we can learn from them, theconversation.com (Nov 23, 2023)
- Coast Salish Indigenous, sustainable salmon fishery, by Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Nov 21, 2023)
- Outlaw fisher turns reef marshal in Indonesia’s Sumbawa, news.mongabay.com (Oct 31, 2023)
- In the Ambitious Bid to Reinvent South Baltimore, Justice Concerns Remain, insideclimatenews.org (Oct 02, 2023)
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- Three California Tribal Nations Declare First U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area, nativenewsonline.net (Sep 21, 2023)
- UN adopts first ‘historic’ treaty to protect high seas, aljazeera.com (Jun 19, 2023)
- ‘Six times the size of Yosemite’: the new tribal sanctuary off the super-rich California coast, earthisland.org (May 18, 2023)
- How Gdańsk is reclaiming its industrial waterfront, The Conversation (May 11, 2023)
- Community-led coral restoration project is rare hit amid slew of misses in Indonesia, news.mongabay.com (May 04, 2023)
- Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks, BBC News (Mar 05, 2023)
- Rising seas threaten ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale’, UN chief warns, The Guardian (Feb 14, 2023)
2022
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- Facing the dual threat of climate change and human disturbance, Mumbai – and the world – should listen to its fishing communities, The Conversation (Oct 19, 2022)
- Pacific groups celebrate Ocean Week by opposing deep sea mining, Global Voices (Jun 20, 2022) — Pacific groups have unveiled an alternative agenda promoting a “blue economy” that focuses on ocean protection and grassroots development
- World Oceans Day, in photos from Trinidad & Tobago, Global Voices (Jun 08, 2022) — The climate crisis is affecting the good health and sustainability of our oceans
- Concrete fuels climate change – but there’s a nature-friendly way to defend coasts from rising seas, The Conversation (Mar 22, 2022)
- African countries must protect their fish stocks from the European Union - here’s how, The Conversation (Feb 15, 2022)
- Which African country is providing the world with a blueprint for ocean protection?, euronews.green (Feb 11, 2022)
- These women are combining Indigenous knowledge and science to save coral reefs, euronews.green (Feb 07, 2022)
2014-2021
- Seagrass: The plant that removes carbon 30 times faster than a rainforest, Sep 30, 2021...euronews.com
- South Africa must start managing its retreat from the coast, May 8, 2015...@ConversationUK
- Plenty more fish in the sea: preserving stocks in Madagascar, October 15, 2014...The Guardian
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