Oezer UtkuDive into the crystal-clear waters of Tabarca Island 🌟, explore the 18th-century walled village 🏰, and indulge in delicious Caldero Tabarquino 🍴.
#Europe #Travel #TabarcaIsland #Alicante #MarineReserve #Snorkelling #SpanishCuisine #IslandGetaway
Charles Should‘Galápagos of west Africa’ plundered by floating fish factories
A group of six Turkish seiners – including the Ilhan Yilmaz 3 – appear to be supplying the two factory vessels at sea, according to satellite records from Global Fishing Watch (GFW), a nonprofit organisation that monitors fishing activity.
#china #turkiye #fisheries #greenpeace #environment #MarineReserve #guineabissau #biodiversity
DoomsdaysCW‘It’s a catastrophe’: Wellington rages as millions of litres of raw sewage pour into ocean
Abandoned beaches, public health warning signs and seagulls eating human waste are now features of the popular coastline in #NewZealand
Michelle Duff in Wellington
Wed 18 Feb 2026 22.42 EST
"A tide of anger is rising in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, as the city’s toilets continue to flush directly into the ocean more than two weeks after the catastrophic collapse of its wastewater treatment plant.
"Millions of litres of raw and partially screened sewage have been pouring into pristine #reefs and a #MarineReserve along the south coast daily since 4 February, prompting a national inquiry, as the authorities struggle to get the decimated plant operational.
"Abandoned beaches, public health warning signs and seagulls eating human waste are now features of the popular coastline, with the environmental disaster zone adjacent to the airport where thousands of international visitors alight every day.
"Fears for the safety of marine #ecosystems – including vulnerable species such as the little blue penguin, or #kororā, which nest along the shore – are mixed with concerns over the length and cost of disruption to those who depend on the coast for income, wellness, and recreation.
"As a southerly storm whipped through the lower North Island and churned up polluted seawater this week, hundreds of residents turned out to a public meeting to seek answers.
" 'They’re warning us to close our windows because a shit-laden hurricane is coming at us,' said the south coast resident and environmentalist Eugene Doyle, whose house faces the sea. 'Everyone in charge has done an appalling job, and they need to be held accountable.' "
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/wellington-raw-sewage-leak-spill-water-new-zealand
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/bjF7f
ecosentidoArrecifes Pro Ciudad began in 2009 when residents, educators, and environmental advocates in Isla Verde united to protect the #reefecosystem threatened by pollution and unregulated coastal activity. What started as a #grassroots effort evolved into an officially designated #marinereserve — the Isla Verde Marine Reserve — through the enactment of Law 274 of 2012. #PuertoRico
https://www.conexionpr.org/arrecifes-pro-ciudad-inc-guardians-of-puerto-ricos-urban-reef/
OmbraHappy birthday to the Marine Forces Reserve—109 years strong. Your readiness and resilience inspire our commitment to mission-ready tech. 🦅🌎⚓ #MarineReserve #Ombra #ForceInReadiness
Fiona GregoryThe seafloor around the remote British Overseas Territory of #AscensionIsland just got mapped, some of it for the first time ever...Looking at this cheerful looking crew in shorts , I wonder what it would be like to be one of the Ascension Island Government Conservation Team. https://gogeomatics.ca/seeing-what-lies-beneath-seafloor-mapping-in-a-marine-protected-area/ #bathymetry #marineReserve
Liz HibbsI wish all those people filling bags with shells, & running their dogs off leash, & torturing things in rockpools with sticks would get so annoyed with me saying, you know it's a marine reserve, right? That they would decide to never come back because it's not worth the aggravation. Instead it's me. I'M SO AGGRAVATED #MarineReserve
Usually when I ask people if they know it's a marine reserve they at least talk to me, even if they're shouting at me to fuck off. But today I called the DOC hotline on 3 chaps chiselling shellfish off the rocks who just looked over my shoulder into the distance and didn't say a thing when I told them why they shouldn't. Tough luck guys, try being polite next time #ImaNarc #MarineReserve
Bosque BillFitzgerald Marine Reserve
Montara, CA
A fantastic area of tide pools offering a view of diverse marine plants and animals—a treasure. Not too far south from San Francisco and the San Andreas Fault.
Two figures can be seen out on the rock looking at the tide pools.
#MeerMittwoch #ocean #sea #shore #MarineReserve #photo #California
KaylinQScientists Discover Pristine #Deep-Sea #CoralReefs in the #Galápagos #MarineReserve
