10 Benefits of Marine Protected Areas for fishing and coastal communities
With collaboration throughout Ireland’s Marine Protected Area process, Ireland’s waters continue to support coastal communities and wildlife.
With collaboration throughout Ireland’s Marine Protected Area process, Ireland’s waters continue to support coastal communities and wildlife.
Ocean literacy is the understanding of our individual and collective impact on the ocean and its impact on our lives and wellbeing
Ireland's current MPA network lacks monitoring and management, rendering the areas ineffective. New legislation must address this.
What is a ‘Marine Protected Area’ and how does it relate to a ‘Special Area of Conservation’ or a ‘Special Protection Area’?
Fair Seas members and authors of the report 'Revitalising Our Seas' presentation at a virtual UN Ocean Conference side event.
Fair Seas attended the second UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. With over 300 side events taking place throughout the week, major announcements from government representatives at the conference, and a huge uptick in civil society representation compared to the 2017 event, it was a busy week from start to finish for the Fair Seas team.
at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform, Minister Noonan announced that Ireland will provide €10 million in funding to address ocean challenges faced by developing countries including Small Island Developing States.
Regina Classen is the Marine Policy and Research Officer with the Irish Wildlife Trust and co-author of the ‘Fair Seas’ report, ‘Revitalising Our Seas’. Regina joins Johnathon Mcrea on Newstalk’s Futureproof, to explain a little bit about what Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are and how they might look in Ireland. Some of the questions they […]
Yesterday saw the publication of a new proposal from the European Union for a Nature Restoration Law. The new law will set legally binding targets for nature restoration both on land and at sea.
At Fair Seas we seek to protect, conserve and restore Ireland’s unique marine environment. The Irish Government has issued a notice warning that a French ‘missile/rocket firing exercise’ will take place in Ireland’s Exclusive Economic Zone to the southwest of the country from June 21 - 27.
FAIR SEAS LAUNCH NEW VIDEO AND VISIT ONE OF EUROPE’S RAREST BREEDING SEABIRDS Boat trip to Rockabill highlights new report on Marine Protected Areas.
For World Oceans Day RTÉ Junior met with Fair Seas scientist, Sarah Hegarty of Birdwatch Ireland on the Ecolutions Podcast.
The stirring seas that wrap around our small island are a wild place where ocean currents converge, great whales wander, and seabirds sail in from the four winds. As wild as our untamable seas may seem, human activity continues to leave its mark on our ocean ecosystems which play a vital role in food production, […]
Ireland’s Marine Protected Areas must increase 18-fold by the end of the decade in order to restore critical habitats, safeguard wildlife and address the climate crisis according to a new report commissioned by the Fair Seas campaign.
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) is a European law designed to bring about ‘Good Environmental Status’ (GES) across European seas, including Irish waters.