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#SaveOurSeas

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

It was confirmed yesterday that Hvalur hf will not hunt fin whales this summer 💙

According to Kristján Loftsson, it’s because of the situation with the Japanese markets (no buyers) as well as the tariff race which is not improving the situation.

We celebrate these news and are happy to know that fin whales will not be hunted in Iceland for the second year in a row 🐋

~ Styngvi

#Styngvi #Iceland #SaveOurSeas #Whales 🐋

Delicate drawing of the eye of a whale in blue and purple tones Fin whales will swim freely around Iceland this summer by Styngvi art | activism
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

A new #FactoryFarming nightmare is unfolding—#seafood giant #GrupoProfand just got the green light to experiment on baby octopuses in #Spain.

Their goal? Cracking the code on captive breeding to pave the way for the world’s first #OctopusFarm.

This new lab will experiment on baby #octopuses by manipulating their larval development—a critical hurdle that has prevented octopus farming from scaling up. 🐙

#BanOctopusFarming #SaveOurSeas

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

Plant Based Treaty's petition to #StopOctopusFarming has over 140,000 signatures. They held global days of actions outside Spanish embassies and mobilised #EnvironmentalScientists to submit objections to #Pescanova 's planning application. With your help, they can do so much more to save these magnificient creatures.

Yours truly,
Peter Egan

#PeterEgan #SaveOctopuses #SaveOurSeas #BanOctopusFarming #PlantBasedTreaty🐙 🌊

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drove.com/campaign/6202d5ca01c

www.drove.comSTOP Octopus FarmingWe, the undersigned, pledge to boycott and not visit The Canary Islands until the octopus farm proposal is dropped and octopuses are recognised as sentient beings in Gran Canaria. The Spanish company Nueva Pescanova has invested €65 million to build the world's first commercial octopus farm in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. As the first demand of the Plant Based Treaty states, we should not be building new slaughterhouses or animal farms but relinquishing animal agriculture facilities and not making the problem worse. Yet this octopus farm would lead to a million octopuses being killed for food each year (3,000 tonnes, according to the company). Nueva Pescanova admits they intend to farm the usually solitary creatures in cramped conditions, housing multiple octopuses – an estimated 10 to 15 – for each cubic metre of tank space. Placing territorial animals in unnatural environments commonly leads to stress and extreme behaviours, such as cannibalism, injury and death. Compassion In World Farming, who have examined the octopus farm proposals, estimate that 10-15% of octopuses housed under the plans will die before they even get to ‘slaughter age’. The shocking method of killing these sentient beings has now been revealed. The intensive farm plans to immerse the octopuses in near freezing -3°C (26.6°F) water – essentially, an ice slurry designed to kill slowly. Prof. Peter Tse, a cognitive neuroscientist at Dartmouth University, points out that it would be “very cruel” and should not be allowed, with several studies demonstrating that this method of killing fish results in a slow, stressful death. Octopuses are Individuals Octopuses are incredible creatures and should be treated with love and kindness, not imprisoned and slaughtered. They should never be stuck inside tanks, raised on farms, eaten, or abused in any way. These eight-armed geniuses are playful, inquisitive, sensitive, determined and just like every other animal on this planet, worthy of our protection. They have three hearts and have a top speed of 27 mph. In addition to their large doughnut-shaped brain, each octopus arm has a mini-brain. They are the world's most intelligent invertebrate and they have as many neurons as a dog; they are as smart as a golden retriever. There is no legislation in Spain or the Canary Islands that protects octopus welfare, and even if the farm had high welfare standards, there is no humane way to imprison or kill anyone against their will. Octopuses feel pain Jennifer Mather, PhD, an expert in the behaviour of octopus and squid at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, says, “It's probable that the octopus's reaction to pain is similar to a vertebrate. They can anticipate a painful, difficult, stressful situation—they can remember it. There is absolutely no doubt that they feel pain.” Not only that, but octopuses learn to avoid sites where pain has been inflicted on them, and they display strong negative behavioural changes when they are faced with pain. Environmental Disaster As the film Seaspiracy showed, our oceans are in crisis. Octopus farms will further add to the world’s fishing crisis and will continue to drain our oceans of fish and many other species while destroying delicate marine ecosystems. There are concerns over the nutrient-rich water that the farm will be pumping directly into the ocean, and feeding such a large amount of hungry mouths will require huge quantities of "fishmeal" – made of ground-up fish dragged from the ocean by industrial trawlers. For every 3 kg of octopus killed, 9kg of fish must also be killed to feed them, making it a totally unsustainable practice. Octopus farming contravenes the EU Strategic Aquaculture Guidelines (SAG) because it will further deplete populations of fish communities living in the oceans. Demands: We call on the Governments of Spain and Gran Canaria to intervene: >STOP this octopus farm - octopus farming is immoral, unsustainable, unethical and ecologically unjustified. >BAN eating octopuses and instead recognize octopuses as sentient beings as already being done in the United Kingdom. Become an Octopus Defender: >Pledge to boycott and not visit The Canary Islands until the octopus farm proposal is dropped and octopuses are recognised as sentient beings in Gran Canaria. >Watch Seaspiracy, My Octopus Teacher and Blue Planet >Read the Animal Save Movement blog, 'Five Interesting Facts about Octopus and why we shouldn't eat them'. >Endorse the Plant Based Treaty >Donate to support our campaigns. Click the link below. References Andrews, P. L. R. et al. The identification and management of pain, suffering and distress in cephalopods, including anaesthesia, analgesia and humane killing. J. Exp. Mar. Bio. Ecol. 447, 46–64 (2013). Fiorito, G. et al. Guidelines for the Care and Welfare of Cephalopods in Research – A consensus based on an initiative by CephRes, FELASA and the Boyd Group. Lab. Anim. 49, 1–90 (2015). Andrews, P. L. R. et al. The identification and management of pain, suffering and distress in cephalopods, including anaesthesia, analgesia and humane killing. J. Exp. Mar. Bio. Ecol. 447, 46–464 (2013). Dr Elena Lara, Octopus Factory Farming: A Recipe for Disaster, Compassion in World Farming (2021) https://www.eldiario.es/caballodenietzsche/granjas-pulpos_132_8702932.html
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

ORCAS AND DOLPHINS DO NOT BELONG IN CAPTIVITY!

Keeping #dolphins, #orcas and other cetaceans in #captivity is cruel. Depriving them of the vast open spaces and social bonds that they would normally have in the wild, and confining them to small, concrete #tanks to perform tricks for dead fish is highly unethical for these complex marine mammals. No matter how sophisticated the enclosure, no man made facility can ever hope to replicate the wild world of dolphins and whales.

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#SaveOurSeas 🌊🐬

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DoomsdaysCW

The deep sea #mining industry stalks, while governments talk

by Maud Oyonarte & Sebastian Losada, 31 March 2023

"The world is waking up to the significance of the threat from deep sea mining, but governments have squandered a major opportunity to take action at the 28th Session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA). Even after two weeks of negotiation, they failed to reach an agreement to put a clear stop to deep sea mining.

"With no agreed plan to stop the deep sea mining industry from starting this year, the door is left open for the industry to mine the seabed. And that’s unacceptable!

"The past two weeks have seen Indigenous advocates reject deep sea mining, scientific warnings of the risks grow ever stronger, and the longest-standing and biggest corporate backer of the industry call it quits. Despite such clear messages, the negotiations at the Council of the ISA failed to yield concrete results, notably on the most pressing topic at hand: how to ensure that deep sea mining can not be authorized some time soon after July 2023."

#DeepSeaMining #Maori #WaterIsLife #SaveOurSeas #LookDown #DefendTheDeep

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Greenpeace InternationalThe deep sea mining industry stalks, while governments talk - Greenpeace InternationalThe world is waking up to the significance of the threat from deep sea mining, but governments have squandered a major opportunity to take action at the 28th Session of the International Seabed Authority.
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DoomsdaysCW

‘We can’t be Māori without the ocean’ — Quack Pirihi, Pacific activist against deep sea mining

Quack Pirihi, 21 March 2023

"Papatūānuku (Earth mother) shows us that they know how to cleanse themselves of mamae (hurt or pain). They know cyclones will wash away homes and they know the extent of flooding. Papatūānuku knows the scale that deep sea mining will have on themselves. Papatuanuku will still remain, but our livelihood, our connection with the whenua (land), can and will change drastically if things continue to be ignored."

#DeepSeaMining #Maori #WaterIsLife #SaveOurSeas #LookDown #DefendTheDeep

greenpeace.org/international/s

Greenpeace International‘We can’t be Māori without the ocean’ — Quack Pirihi, Pacific activist against deep sea mining - Greenpeace InternationalMy name is Quack Pirihi. I am an Aotearoa (New Zealand) activist and campaigner who is part of the Pacific delegation attending the International Seabed Authority (ISA) conference.
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