Nature noticed its ups and downs in 2019, and Conservation Information was there for all of it. This month, we’re revisiting among the most fascinating and important tales and points we lined in the previous yr.
Foreboding experiences and unsettling headlines sounded a single chorus in 2019: Local weather change is wreaking havoc on the world’s oceans. Listed below are a few of our most-read tales from 2019 in regards to the international effort to safe a higher future for the waters all of us depend on.
Unprecedented sea stage rise and harmful marine heatwaves brought on by local weather change are amongst a listing of grim impacts predicted by a main UN ocean report launched earlier this yr. If international locations deeply reduce their emissions this century, then we are able to forestall probably the most extreme penalties of local weather breakdown on the world’s oceans — and the those that depend on them.
Seafood has a darkish secret: For years, the multibillion-dollar trade has been fueled, not less than in half, by slavery. This Conservation Worldwide scientist is a driving power in the worldwide effort to show the tide of abuse in the sector — whereas retaining the world’s oceans (and all these fish) thriving.
The ocean is heating up because the local weather breaks down — and tuna are following the warming waters. The shift of tuna populations may very well be catastrophic for the Pacific island nations that depend on this fish for their economies and diets. These findings may have main implications for coastal communities — and for your lunch.
Communities in the distant Pacific island of Timor-Leste are stitching collectively a patchwork of protected areas aimed toward conserving their most treasured useful resource: reefs. Conservation Information spoke with the top of Conservation Worldwide Timor-Leste to discover how native communities in this small nation are constructing their livelihoods round conservation.
Kiley Worth is a employees author at Conservation Worldwide. Need to learn extra tales like this? Enroll for e mail updates right here. Donate to Conservation Worldwide right here.
Cowl picture: A fisherman paddling via the Indian Ocean, Philippines. (© Alex Sher)
