Flora McMorrin
@floramcm.bsky.social
Director of RISE UP, uniting diverse voices to drive action on inclusive ocean governance . #OceanJustice #OceanAction
The Ocean needs more than a moment - it needs consistency www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Is the ocean ‘having a moment’? This was the UN summit where the world woke up to the decline of the seas
A slew of global leaders met in the south of France to discuss the future of the oceans. There was ‘momentum’ and ‘enthusiasm’, but there were critical voices too
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The Ocean needs more than a moment - it needs consistency www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🎣Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Republic of Ghana. Honourable Emilia Arthur announces imminent extension of Preferential Acceas area to 12 nautical miles, Co-managed with SSF 👏@riseup4theocean.bsky.social @blueventures.bsky.social and Canoe and Fishing Gear Owners Association of Ghana #UNOC3
June 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🎣Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Republic of Ghana. Honourable Emilia Arthur announces imminent extension of Preferential Acceas area to 12 nautical miles, Co-managed with SSF 👏@riseup4theocean.bsky.social @blueventures.bsky.social and Canoe and Fishing Gear Owners Association of Ghana #UNOC3
To achieve #30x30 governments need to first protect those who depend on the ocean for their livelihoods. Implementation has to centre equity with small scale fishers for marine protection to be fair and effective. @riseup4theocean.bsky.social #UNOC3
June 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
To achieve #30x30 governments need to first protect those who depend on the ocean for their livelihoods. Implementation has to centre equity with small scale fishers for marine protection to be fair and effective. @riseup4theocean.bsky.social #UNOC3
Watch new bottom trawling short here bit.ly/3SO2L8v
Stephen Fry UK’s dirty fishing secret - Google Search
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June 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Watch new bottom trawling short here bit.ly/3SO2L8v
Event on the launch of OECM guide - co-authored by @riseup4theocean.bsky.social Programme Manager - Sivaja Nair.
Onel Maasardule From IIFB “Firstly it’s important to recognise the work of IPLCs for conservation … they must be consulted in every decision” #Community voices.
Onel Maasardule From IIFB “Firstly it’s important to recognise the work of IPLCs for conservation … they must be consulted in every decision” #Community voices.
June 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Event on the launch of OECM guide - co-authored by @riseup4theocean.bsky.social Programme Manager - Sivaja Nair.
Onel Maasardule From IIFB “Firstly it’s important to recognise the work of IPLCs for conservation … they must be consulted in every decision” #Community voices.
Onel Maasardule From IIFB “Firstly it’s important to recognise the work of IPLCs for conservation … they must be consulted in every decision” #Community voices.
Great event with @blueventures.bsky.social and The Low Impact fishers of Europe. Hard hitting documentary on SSF: SeaChange
“Having mega boats in the same coastal waters as small-scale fishers is nonsensical” #UNOC3 #RiseUp4theOcean
“Having mega boats in the same coastal waters as small-scale fishers is nonsensical” #UNOC3 #RiseUp4theOcean
June 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Great event with @blueventures.bsky.social and The Low Impact fishers of Europe. Hard hitting documentary on SSF: SeaChange
“Having mega boats in the same coastal waters as small-scale fishers is nonsensical” #UNOC3 #RiseUp4theOcean
“Having mega boats in the same coastal waters as small-scale fishers is nonsensical” #UNOC3 #RiseUp4theOcean
@riseup4theocean.bsky.social bringing civil society together in Nice, ahead of #UNOC3 . Heading into a week of advocating together for their priorities for the ocean.
June 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
@riseup4theocean.bsky.social bringing civil society together in Nice, ahead of #UNOC3 . Heading into a week of advocating together for their priorities for the ocean.
Reposted by Flora McMorrin
Good news from #OurOcean2025! The Republic of Korea🇰🇷 committed to enhancing #HighSeas protections, including supporting #MPAs in the Emperor Seamount Chain & Salas y Gómez and Nazca Ridge. A great step forward to #ProtectSeamounts!
Media Release: Korean Government announces protection commitments to seamounts on the high seas, laying the foundation for an effective High Seas Treaty - DSCC
At the 10th Our Ocean Conference, the Korean Government announces protection commitments to seamounts on the high seas
deep-sea-conservation.org
April 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Good news from #OurOcean2025! The Republic of Korea🇰🇷 committed to enhancing #HighSeas protections, including supporting #MPAs in the Emperor Seamount Chain & Salas y Gómez and Nazca Ridge. A great step forward to #ProtectSeamounts!
Join the deep debate
Date: 7 May 2025
Time: 3:00 PM CEST
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Interpretation in Spanish, French & Portuguese
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Date: 7 May 2025
Time: 3:00 PM CEST
Online via Zoom
Interpretation in Spanish, French & Portuguese
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Deep Debate: Protecting the Ocean with Knowledge and Purpose . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
As deep-sea mining (DSM) gains traction on the global agenda, your voice in the conversation about its ecological, cultural, and economic impacts is more important than ever.
The deep ocean is not ju...
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April 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Join the deep debate
Date: 7 May 2025
Time: 3:00 PM CEST
Online via Zoom
Interpretation in Spanish, French & Portuguese
Register here: shorturl.at/zWUdG
Date: 7 May 2025
Time: 3:00 PM CEST
Online via Zoom
Interpretation in Spanish, French & Portuguese
Register here: shorturl.at/zWUdG
Reposted by Flora McMorrin
There is something horribly sobering about this.
The deep sea abyssal plains of the Pacific have existed basically unchanged for roughly 80 million years. Over a period of just a couple of weeks in 1979, we changed it during an experimental mining operation.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
The deep sea abyssal plains of the Pacific have existed basically unchanged for roughly 80 million years. Over a period of just a couple of weeks in 1979, we changed it during an experimental mining operation.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Evidence of deep-sea mining still visible over four decades later | Natural History Museum
The impact it has had on the life living down there has been more mixed.
www.nhm.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
There is something horribly sobering about this.
The deep sea abyssal plains of the Pacific have existed basically unchanged for roughly 80 million years. Over a period of just a couple of weeks in 1979, we changed it during an experimental mining operation.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
The deep sea abyssal plains of the Pacific have existed basically unchanged for roughly 80 million years. Over a period of just a couple of weeks in 1979, we changed it during an experimental mining operation.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
🚨 Deep-Sea Mining: A Risky Frontier? 🚨
The rush to extract deep-sea minerals for the energy transition must be stopped. 31 countries and major companies are calling for a moratorium or ban, warning of risks to climate, biodiversity, and ocean health.
Read more from Carbon Brief 👉 bit.ly/3DQXadR
The rush to extract deep-sea minerals for the energy transition must be stopped. 31 countries and major companies are calling for a moratorium or ban, warning of risks to climate, biodiversity, and ocean health.
Read more from Carbon Brief 👉 bit.ly/3DQXadR
Q&A: What does deep-sea mining mean for climate change and biodiversity loss?
The deep sea has emerged as a new mining frontier in the global race towards energy security, with countries vying to explore and exploit its reserves of metals, such as nickel, copper, cobalt and man...
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April 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🚨 Deep-Sea Mining: A Risky Frontier? 🚨
The rush to extract deep-sea minerals for the energy transition must be stopped. 31 countries and major companies are calling for a moratorium or ban, warning of risks to climate, biodiversity, and ocean health.
Read more from Carbon Brief 👉 bit.ly/3DQXadR
The rush to extract deep-sea minerals for the energy transition must be stopped. 31 countries and major companies are calling for a moratorium or ban, warning of risks to climate, biodiversity, and ocean health.
Read more from Carbon Brief 👉 bit.ly/3DQXadR
Badenoch’s attack on net zero is ridiculous. But so were the right’s Brexit claims, and look where they left us | Zoe Williams
March 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Badenoch’s attack on net zero is ridiculous. But so were the right’s Brexit claims, and look where they left us | Zoe Williams
Say NO to deep-sea mining
YouTube video by Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
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March 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🌊 Come on, UK! It's time to stand up for our ocean and ratify the High Seas Treaty! #RaceforRatification #RiseUp4theOcean 🌍💙 www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/global-...
Global Ocean Treaty two years on: UK at risk of missing deadline to sign historic treaty into law - Greenpeace UK
Tuesday 4 March will mark the second anniversary of the Global Ocean Treaty being agreed, a triumph for multilateralism and the greatest conservation victory in history. Bringing it to life as soon as...
www.greenpeace.org.uk
March 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🌊 Come on, UK! It's time to stand up for our ocean and ratify the High Seas Treaty! #RaceforRatification #RiseUp4theOcean 🌍💙 www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/global-...
Reposted by Flora McMorrin
Spanish Fishers in Galicia Say Shellfish Stocks Are Collapsing Due to Climate Change www.ecowatch.com/spain-shellf...
Spanish Fishers in Galicia Say Shellfish Stocks Are Collapsing Due to Climate Change - EcoWatch
Spanish fishers in Galicia are reporting a “catastrophic” collapse in shellfish populations due to the climate crisis.
www.ecowatch.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Spanish Fishers in Galicia Say Shellfish Stocks Are Collapsing Due to Climate Change www.ecowatch.com/spain-shellf...
Civil society in the Philippines call on the public to support them in protecting the livelihood, fishing grounds, and rights of small-scale fishers after a Supreme court ruling allowed industrial boats into preferential access areas- dailyguardian.com.ph/fisherfolk-g...
Fisherfolk Group Denounces SC Ruling on Municipal Waters
The progressive fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA)-Panay has denounced the recent Supreme Court ruling that allows commercial fishing in municipal wat...
dailyguardian.com.ph
January 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Civil society in the Philippines call on the public to support them in protecting the livelihood, fishing grounds, and rights of small-scale fishers after a Supreme court ruling allowed industrial boats into preferential access areas- dailyguardian.com.ph/fisherfolk-g...
Reposted by Flora McMorrin
Bottom trawling, dragging a heavy net across the seafloor, has been compared to burning down a forest to catch rabbits.
Sweden starting to ban this in sensitive habitats is my #EarthOptimism #OceanOptimism for today.
🦑🧪🌎🐠
(I’m not anti-trawl but there are some places we shouldn’t do it)
Sweden starting to ban this in sensitive habitats is my #EarthOptimism #OceanOptimism for today.
🦑🧪🌎🐠
(I’m not anti-trawl but there are some places we shouldn’t do it)
Sweden sets an example for EU countries with first steps to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas
Swedish government proposal to amend legislation, paving the way for a future ban on bottom trawling in Swedish marine protected areas.
europe.oceana.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Bottom trawling, dragging a heavy net across the seafloor, has been compared to burning down a forest to catch rabbits.
Sweden starting to ban this in sensitive habitats is my #EarthOptimism #OceanOptimism for today.
🦑🧪🌎🐠
(I’m not anti-trawl but there are some places we shouldn’t do it)
Sweden starting to ban this in sensitive habitats is my #EarthOptimism #OceanOptimism for today.
🦑🧪🌎🐠
(I’m not anti-trawl but there are some places we shouldn’t do it)
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that industrial marine activities, such as bottom fishing, deep sea mining, marine energy development processes, oil and gas extraction, and marine construction can disrupt the carbon found in seabed sediments 👇 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/does-se...
oceanographicmagazine.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that industrial marine activities, such as bottom fishing, deep sea mining, marine energy development processes, oil and gas extraction, and marine construction can disrupt the carbon found in seabed sediments 👇 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/does-se...
The implementation of this Bill is a matter of common sense for the small fisheries of this country, for the wildlife in our marine protected areas, and for all of us who depend on a healthy planet 👏https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/friends-of-the-earth-labour-mps-david-goliath-b1206180.html
MP calls for ban on ‘bottom trawling’ of seabeds in marine protected areas
Katie White compared bottom trawling, which is the act of dragging heavy nets across the seabed, with ‘ripping up an orchard to pick an apple’.
www.standard.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The implementation of this Bill is a matter of common sense for the small fisheries of this country, for the wildlife in our marine protected areas, and for all of us who depend on a healthy planet 👏https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/friends-of-the-earth-labour-mps-david-goliath-b1206180.html
Reposted by Flora McMorrin
Whaling causes increased stress in whale populations. 🐋
Sadly whales are more stressed than ever due to human-driven issues such as climate change, pollution, decreasing prey availability and underwater noise pollution.
www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...
Sadly whales are more stressed than ever due to human-driven issues such as climate change, pollution, decreasing prey availability and underwater noise pollution.
www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...
How Whales Found Peace in War - bioGraphic
A forgotten museum collection reveals how a pause in industrial whaling during World War II changed whales at the molecular level.
www.biographic.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Whaling causes increased stress in whale populations. 🐋
Sadly whales are more stressed than ever due to human-driven issues such as climate change, pollution, decreasing prey availability and underwater noise pollution.
www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...
Sadly whales are more stressed than ever due to human-driven issues such as climate change, pollution, decreasing prey availability and underwater noise pollution.
www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...
🌊 Read my blog for #RiseUp4TheOcean: bit.ly/4jdRVEM
With our growing network of over 650 🌟 incredible organizations, we’re more determined than ever to turn this global momentum into lasting change for ocean conservation.
#OceanAction #UNOC3 #community
With our growing network of over 650 🌟 incredible organizations, we’re more determined than ever to turn this global momentum into lasting change for ocean conservation.
#OceanAction #UNOC3 #community
2025 - New Year, New Resolve: RISE UP’s Commitment to Ocean Action - Rise Up For The Ocean
By Flora McMorrin, Director RISE UP As we enter 2025, we reflect on the ongoing challenges and the urgent need for decisive action to protect our ocean. In 2024, the ocean faced continued threats from...
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January 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🌊 Read my blog for #RiseUp4TheOcean: bit.ly/4jdRVEM
With our growing network of over 650 🌟 incredible organizations, we’re more determined than ever to turn this global momentum into lasting change for ocean conservation.
#OceanAction #UNOC3 #community
With our growing network of over 650 🌟 incredible organizations, we’re more determined than ever to turn this global momentum into lasting change for ocean conservation.
#OceanAction #UNOC3 #community
🌊 "Small-scale fisheries are at the heart of ocean conservation."
A powerful Call to Action from Ambassador Peter Thomson in the latest #SAMUDRAReport from #ICSF (pg. 4). Ocean advocates, this is your rallying cry.
👉 bit.ly/40vquPl
#SSF #OceanAction #UNOC #RiseUp4theOcean
A powerful Call to Action from Ambassador Peter Thomson in the latest #SAMUDRAReport from #ICSF (pg. 4). Ocean advocates, this is your rallying cry.
👉 bit.ly/40vquPl
#SSF #OceanAction #UNOC #RiseUp4theOcean
January 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🌊 "Small-scale fisheries are at the heart of ocean conservation."
A powerful Call to Action from Ambassador Peter Thomson in the latest #SAMUDRAReport from #ICSF (pg. 4). Ocean advocates, this is your rallying cry.
👉 bit.ly/40vquPl
#SSF #OceanAction #UNOC #RiseUp4theOcean
A powerful Call to Action from Ambassador Peter Thomson in the latest #SAMUDRAReport from #ICSF (pg. 4). Ocean advocates, this is your rallying cry.
👉 bit.ly/40vquPl
#SSF #OceanAction #UNOC #RiseUp4theOcean
Reposted by Flora McMorrin
‘Pristine Environments Protect Us’
Check out my latest column on deep sea mining & the need to #DefendTheDeep in the latest issue of @oceanographicmag.bsky.social
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@deepseaconserve.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social @graceblakeley.bsky.social
Check out my latest column on deep sea mining & the need to #DefendTheDeep in the latest issue of @oceanographicmag.bsky.social
🐋🌊🌎🚨
@deepseaconserve.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social @graceblakeley.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
‘Pristine Environments Protect Us’
Check out my latest column on deep sea mining & the need to #DefendTheDeep in the latest issue of @oceanographicmag.bsky.social
🐋🌊🌎🚨
@deepseaconserve.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social @graceblakeley.bsky.social
Check out my latest column on deep sea mining & the need to #DefendTheDeep in the latest issue of @oceanographicmag.bsky.social
🐋🌊🌎🚨
@deepseaconserve.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social @graceblakeley.bsky.social