OceanCare comments on the results of the Climate Change conference – COP28
The survival of all life on Planet Earth is being fundamentally challenged by the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution in [...]
Legal Action to Stop Environmental Destruction in Austria
The NGO AllRise is taking legal action against the Republic of Austria to stop sealing nature. Every day, an average area of 11.5 hectares [...]
Major shipping company slows down to protect whales
But progress to reduce vessel speed is a happening far too slowly despite multiple environmental benefits There is no doubt that technical progress will, or [...]
A LOOK BACK ON ACTIVITIES OF THE SHIFTING VALUES TEAM 2022
OCEAN CONSERVATION As part of the OceanCare team, we are happy to see some positive developments in marine conservation. Changing course to avoid collisions [...]
Climate Change Forces us Towards Radically Local Survival
News from the United Nations about the shortfall in national emission pledges—that there is ‘no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place’—is echoing across the world. [...]
Despite leaving, Japan still pulls the strings within Whaling Commission: IWC to start in Slovenia.
Portorož, Slovenia, 17th October 2022. - At its last meeting in 2018, the IWC adopted the “Florianópolis Declaration” setting the course for maintaining the ban [...]
FIRE. The Book.
On January 3rd, 2020, a wall of fire sweeps over the Prideauxs' home, their livelihood. It is one of more than 3,000 homes leveled by [...]
OceanCare – Generation change
On 1 January 2022, Fabienne McLellan will take over as managing director of OceanCare, the international marine conservation organisation founded by Sigrid Lüber in 1989. [...]
Which banks are financing animal suffering?
As we had worked many years on the issue of animal welfare and international financial institutions, we were particularly happy when the international animal welfare [...]
Vaquita – losing the struggle for survival
It’s 30 years now that the Vaquita, a small porpoise species restricted to the northern Gulf of California, Mexico, was classified as “endangered” on the [...]