A healthy ocean will benefit global sustainable development
Restored ocean will alleviate poverty, provide jobs, and improve global health, finds new Nippon Foundation-UBC Nereus Program report
Marine conservation must consider human rights: An appeal for a code of conduct
The impacts of marine protected areas can undermine people’s rights or stop them from their livelihoods
Antarctica’s biodiversity not doing as well as hoped
Experts, including IOF’s Deng Palomares, debunked the popular view that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are in a better environmental shape than the rest of the world.
Andrew Trites and David Rosen go to Ottawa
They addressed Bill S-203, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and other Acts (ending captivity of whales and dolphins), in front of the Senate Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.
HERRING PEOPLE: An Arts-Based Initiative
This event combined art and science to raise awareness of Pacific herring’s role in BC marine ecosystems, aboriginal communities, and commercial fisheries.
For Indigenous communities, fish mean much more than food
Coastal indigenous communities eat 15 times more seafood than non-indigenous people in the same country says article from NF-UBC Nereus Program.
Seafood consumption 15 times higher among Indigenous than non-Indigenous people
In the first global-scale analysis of its kind, the study estimated that coastal Indigenous people consume 74 kilograms of seafood per capita, compared to the global average of 19 kilograms.
Opinion: Mexico needs to rethink environmental protection budget cuts, prioritize ecologically-sustainable human development
Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor, Nereus Program Manager & Research Associate weighs in on Mexico’s 2017 budget release.
Seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) and the CITES Review of Significant Trade
New Fisheries Centre Research Report takes in-depth look the route taken by eight seahorse species as they travelled through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)’s Review of Significant Trade (RST) process.