Part one included the Torrey Canyon disaster, harmony with nature and protections for mako sharks, with hints that they are all connected by something specific, something important. Something to do with rights and liability… You…
Value and Values
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This story is about everywhere and everything. But we’ll begin in 1967. And we’ll begin with a shipwreck. Picture a disaster at sea and its easy to imagine dramatic conditions playing a part. The loss…
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Pew Environment, the environmentally focused wing of Pew Charitable Trusts, is a leading proponent and participant in the process towards the new forthcoming UN Treaty for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity Beyond…
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There’s an abiding truth about conservation–no matter how much we may want it to be about the living world beyond humankind, inevitably it gets down to the things that people do and don’t do. Staggering…
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Half Bold New Vision, Half Not So Much–New Government Report on the Future of BC’s Fisheries. By Jason Murphy
by Jason MurphyIf you’re a fan of clarity of vision and decisive action, the government report published on Wednesday entitled West Coast Fisheries: Sharing the Risks and Benefits is something of a disappointment. Make no mistake–there are…
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Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) comes in for a boatload of criticism. Its job is to conduct science to predict the potential impacts of possible management strategies in Canadian waters, and then, in…