Dr Daisy Brickhill

Porpoises, whales, dolphins and more are carrying the toxins of the oil and gas industry in their bodies.

Their suffering has gone unrecognised for too long.

It really is heart breaking. Sustainable catch limits mean MORE fish in the long term. Everyone should be behind this.

📢 Over 80 conservation organisations, land-managers and rural businesses have written to Government to warn that exempting sub-0.5 ha sites from BNG would remove 97% of planning applications from the UK’s only national nature compliance market.

Gross gross gross. And incredibly destructive.

Marine wildlife threatened by North Sea oil fields despite pledges - Oceanographic Oceana UK warns that allowing North Sea oil and gas plans to proceed would cause severe harm to UK seas and marine life.

Big Oil is pushing through 22 new oil fields in but we've exposed the true ocean impact of each one 🌊⚠️

Big Oil is playing games with our seas & "allowing any of these fields to proceed makes losers of us all" ❌

@oceanographicmag.bsky.social 🔽
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500 govt meetings with oil lobbyists last year ✓
22 new oil fields pending ✓
8 fields in or next to marine PROTECTED areas ✓
Our govt considering the true ocean impact ❌

Game over. The #OilFieldFiles are public.

📧 Email your MP to stop this → act.oceana.org/page/171529/...

BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank.

In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.

Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.

'Deep Decline': Half of UK's top 10 fish stocks critically low or overexploited One-in-six UK fish stocks are in a critical condition but are still being fished beyond safe limits, new Oceana UK report warns

Desperately bleak new report from @oceanauk.bsky.social on the UK's collapsing fish stocks. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520088...

🚨 BREAKING: Half the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited

🐟 We’ve done one of the most comprehensive health checks of UK seas & the data is undeniable

⚠️ #Overfishing is emptying our seas, & it’s a political choice

📩 Tell PM Keir Starmer to act: act.oceana.org/page/178303/...

Warnings over collapsing fish stocks as experts advise ‘zero catch’ for cod Conservationists call for action to follow scientific advice and end overfishing in the North Sea and west of Scotland.

“Our warnings [...] were ignored, & since then we've had to watch helplessly as the UK Govt sold out our seas & communities, allowing fishing pressure to build relentlessly as [...] industrial vessels squeezed out the small local boats" @hugotagholm.bsky.social
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🌊 Scientist, adventurer & wildlife filmmaker Lizzie Daly calls out the devastation bottom-trawl fishing is inflicting on UK marine protected areas 🚨

Please help put a stop to this! Time is running out to have your say. ⌛

Take action with us here: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c... ✊

Campaigners slam proposals for 'bespoke' oil and gas licenses Industry welcomes proposal to expand existing oil and gas fields, but campaigners warn such reforms would breach Labour's manifesto pledge to end issuance of new licenses

⚠️UK Govt is being urged to back 'bespoke' oil & gas licences 😡 This threatens our seas & climate, whilst doing NOTHING for our energy security. 'Bespoke' or not, government has already promised to END new oil & gas licensing @stopcambo.bsky.social
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518193...

🚨 JUST IN: Ocean Minister Emma Hardy has officially announced the UK Govt’s proposal to extend bottom trawling bans in English protected areas. If total bans go ahead this is a HUGE WIN! 🎉
 
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social delves into what we need to do to make sure this happens✊🌊

🚨 BREAKING: Govt is proposing bottom trawling bans in English offshore marine protected areas at #UNOC2025 🌊 Many would be FULL bans across the WHOLE site!

If implemented this could protect 30,000km² of seabed 🪸That's DOUBLE the size of all England’s national parks put together! 🧵🔽

🎉 HUGE NEWS: The EU Court has confirmed marine protected areas must be PROPERLY protected from bottom trawling! Countries must act to fulfil their legal duty to safeguard these areas from destruction. This is an absolute WIN for our ocean. 🙌 1/2
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Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping

A brilliant WIN! Access to nature is vital and everyone should be able to have the thrill of sleeping out under the stars.

We won't protect what we don't know. Huge kudos to those who have campaigned on this issue.
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❌ 20,000+ hours of suspected bottom trawling WRECKED UK marine protected areas last year. 🚫 It’s a scandal. A ban is CRITICAL.
 
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social explains why there’s hope, but only if we act now.
 
👉 Email govt to demand a ban: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

❌ Promise made. Promise broken?

The UK Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, VOWED to end bottom trawling.

A year on, and we are STILL waiting. 3/4 🔽

After David Attenborough's heartbreaking documentary we ran the numbers on bottom-trawl fishing in UK marine 'protected' areas. It's not good 👇

This is heartbreaking and enraging but also hugely motiviating. We need to ACT on bottom trawling in marine protected areas NOW.

Here's how you can do that: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

🚨 BREAKING: The UK's sandeel ban will stay in place in a VICTORY for the ocean & science! 🌊🎉

🐟 #Sandeels are vital food for puffins, porpoises & cod. Although the EU won its challenge to the ban on paper, the court confirms it was backed by science & is VITAL to healthy seas. 1/2 ⏬

Mackerel stocks near breaking point because of overfishing, say experts Northeast Atlantic mackerel populations depleted, and Good Fish Guide says shoppers should look for other options

🚨🚨 Mackerel on the brink!

Years of #overfishing, by the UK & others, mean it’s no longer a sustainable choice, says the Good Fish Guide. 🐟❌

We need science-backed catch limits NOW, not when it’s too late. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social you were very clear pre-election that you'd stop destructive bottom trawling ripping apart our marine havens.

Where's the action for our ocean?

Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans Phrases used to smooth over tense social situations have meanings beyond the sum of their parts, study suggests

'Let's find peace' is a bonobo phrase using meaning more than the sum of its parts.

Be more bonobo
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During the presidential campaign, I wrote an op-ed about how Trump’s proposed policies would be bad for ocean science and conservation, and senior members of my field told me I was being unprofessional.

Thinking about them as I read a news story called “the darkest day in scientific history.”

🚨 BREAKING: The Ocean vs. Big Oil showdown is TODAY.
 
We’re outside the Royal Courts of Justice to challenge new North Sea oil & gas licences. Here’s what’s at stake 🧵 1/5

We're here today to fight for for our beautiful UK seas to get the protection they deserve ✊️

Industrial fishing fleets are bulldozing our seabeds, even in areas that should be off-limits! 🚨

We’re demanding the UK Government BANS #bottomtrawling in marine protected areas, once and for all.

📢 Add your voice now: bit.ly/41RiLea

#ForTheOcean

The North Sea tanker collision: What I saw in Grimsby Our campaign lead Naomi Tilley recounts what happened when she travelled down to the coastal UK town of Grimsby, following the tragic collision between an oil tanker and a cargo ship on Monday 10 Marc...

Today is the 58th anniversary of the Torrey Canyon disaster. 100,000 tonnes of crude oil were spilt into Cornish waters, devastating wildlife for deacdes. Today we are still watching oil tankers put our seas at risk.

Time to turn back the black tide.

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