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Oceana UK
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Ocean charity fighting to protect UK seas ✊🌊 We campaign to:

🪸 Ban bottom trawling in ocean havens
🐟 Stop overfishing
❌ End new oil & gas

🌊 Learn more: linktr.ee/oceana_uk 🪸

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#DYK Big Oil spilt over 89,000 kg of oil into UK waters in 2025? 😡

Enough!

Get govt to take a stand against this relentless pollution of our ocean.

Tell your MP to join our roundtable in parliament → act.oceana.org/page/183508/...
January 8, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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🌊 Only three days left to apply for the fantastic roles we're hiring for this year! Come and join our small but mighty team of ocean campaigners, storytellers and advocates ✨💙

⏰ Closing date: 11 Jan 2026
👉 Apply: https://lnkd.in/e_K4jZGX
📩 Sign-up: https://lnkd.in/eTZUXrYd
January 8, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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BREAKING: Big Oil was responsible for over 600 spills in UK waters in 2025, 85 of which were in or next to PROTECTED AREAS! 🌊🛢️

This equates to TONNES of toxic oil poisoning our seas and threatening precious wildlife, like porpoises, puffins and seals 🐬🦭

Enough. It’s time for change.

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January 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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🌊 Calling all ocean lovers! We have TWO fantastic opportunities to join our small but mighty team this year✨

Read more below & join our newsletter to stay updated 💙

⏰ Closing date: 11 Jan 2026
👉 Apply: https://lnkd.in/e_K4jZGX
📩 Sign-up: https://lnkd.in/eTZUXrYd
January 5, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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🌊 Sign up to our newsletter to join us in the fight for UK seas! https://act.oceana.org/page/144742/subscriptions/1?ea.tracking.id=bluesky
January 3, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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🙌 OCEAN WIN: A “treasure trove” of marine life in the English Channel is to be safeguarded by a new marine protected area 🌊

The proposed haven around Sark island would protect its lush eelgrass beds, vibrant reefs & soaring seabirds 💙
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxqv27y5y4o
January 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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🌊 Big win for the ocean! Tonga now protects 30% of its waters, home to whales, coral reefs & the Tonga Trench. The new Ocean Management Act both protects marine wildlife & empowers coastal communities 💙
January 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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🐋 Scientists are tuning into whale conversations like never before, with one study suggesting sperm whales have their own alphabet! 🔤 Project CETI uses AI & high-tech listening devices to decode whale communication. Could we one day answer back? 💬
https://bit.ly/4axvkBd
December 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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HIRING! We’re excited to be recruiting for two new roles joining us in 2026:

🌊 Head of Campaigns
🌊 Habitats & Fisheries Campaigner

👉Apply here: https://lnkd.in/e_K4jZGX
📩Join our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eTZUXrYd 💙
December 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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🌊 Sign up to our newsletter to join us in the fight for UK seas! https://act.oceana.org/page/144742/subscriptions/1?ea.tracking.id=bluesky
December 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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🌊 Sign up to our newsletter to join us in the fight for UK seas! https://act.oceana.org/page/144742/subscriptions/1?ea.tracking.id=bluesky
December 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Here's to even more ocean wins in 2026 🌊✨

Subscribe to our newsletter to stay with us in the fight for UK seas! https://act.oceana.org/page/144742/subscriptions/1?ea.tracking.id=bluesky
December 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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🌊 Calling all ocean lovers! We’re recruiting for two new campaign roles next year ✨

Read more below & join our newsletter to hear about further opportunities 💙

👉 Application: https://bit.ly/44HedsW
📩 Newsletter: https://bit.ly/44A2lsM
December 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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2025 has been declared the 'year of the octopus' 🐙thanks to record numbers of the intelligent invertebrates across England's south coast, from Penzance in Cornwall to south Devon! More below 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
2025 is ‘year of the octopus’ as record numbers spotted off England’s south coast
Milder weather led to a bloom in the invertebrates off the coast of Cornwall and south Devon, wildlife charity says
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Here's to even more ocean wins in 2026 🌊✨

Subscribe to our newsletter to stay with us in the fight for UK seas! act.oceana.org/page/144742/...
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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🌊 HIRING! We’re recruiting for two new roles joining us in 2026:

✨ Head of Campaigns
✨ Habitats & Fisheries Campaigner

Read more below & join our newsletter to hear about other opportunities 💙

👉Application: uk.oceana.org/employment-o...
📩Newsletter: act.oceana.org/page/144742/...
December 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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🌊 HIRING! We’re recruiting for two new roles joining us in 2026:

✨ Head of Campaigns
✨ Habitats & Fisheries Campaigner

Read more below & join our newsletter to hear about other opportunities 💙

👉Application: uk.oceana.org/employment-o...
📩Newsletter: act.oceana.org/page/144742/...
December 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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💔 BREAKING: Mackerel catch limits set above what is sustainable

A 70% slash in quotas was recommended by science, but the estimated UK cut is just 60%. It's not enough.

This is how fish populations collapse & coastal livelihoods are put at risk 🐟

ACT NOW👉 act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
December 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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🚨 "Half of the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are in peril; either critically low, overfished, or both" 🎣

Decades of ignoring the science have pushed cod and mackerel towards collapse.

Our Policy & Research Director Alec lays it out here👇
greenbusinessjournal.co.uk/overfishing-...
Overfishing is emptying UK seas - It can be stopped • Green Business Journal
Our fishing industries – and the oceans they depend on – face catastrophic collapse unless action is taken now, warns Alec Taylor, Director of Policy and Research at Oceana UK. Half of the UK’s top te...
greenbusinessjournal.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: 7 supertrawlers are hoovering up our seas off Sussex RIGHT NOW 🚢

These floating fish factories can be longer than 140m with nets 3x the length of the Eiffel Tower. This is industrial overfishing happening on our doorstep 😡

ACT NOW 👉 act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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🚨🐟 In 1992, Canada’s northern cod fishery collapsed almost overnight. Stocks had fallen to 1% of historic levels after decades of overfishing and industrial trawling. Entire communities lost their way of life.

The cause? DECADES of overfishing ⚠️

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December 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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🚨🌊 Scotland’s seas have been let down AGAIN

Scottish Govt has just delayed vital measures to protect the marine environment, meaning destructive bottom trawling & dredging can keep tearing through fragile habitats 🪸🌊

👉 Take action: ourseasscotland.eaction.org.uk/bring-back-t...
Petition to Bring Back Scotland's Inshore Limit
Scotland's coastal seabed was off-limits to bottom-trawling until 1984. Ever since the limit was removed, the fish in our seas declined as seabed habitats were destroyed. Protecting our seabed will he...
ourseasscotland.eaction.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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🐟 Despite clear scientific warnings, cod quotas for 2026 have been set 14,000 tonnes above advice

Our marine scientist Natalie delves into why this matters and what must change 👉 uk.oceana.org/blog/for-cod...
For Cod’s Sake: A Fishery on the Brink and How We Can Save It
Catch limit negotiations for British cod have once again allowed damaging overfishing, putting this vital fish and communities at risk.
uk.oceana.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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🐟 Cod populations are close to collapse, yet the UK just approved dangerously high catch limits - far above scientific advice

💔 14,000+ tonnes when it should be ZERO.

🌊 We need urgent action.

✊ Tell the government: End overfishing NOW

👉 https://bit.ly/3Wxi2MI
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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🐬 4 years after going out for consultation the UK Cetacean Conservation Strategy has been published. 

📄 The final document lacks any new commitments from the UK Governments to reduce threats to dolphins, whales and porpoises.
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM