Earlier this month the fisheries minister of Belize announced that all forms of trawling will be banned in Belize effective December 31, 2010. Oceana, especially Oceana’s vice president for Belize, Audrey Matura-Shepherd, led the push to get bottom trawling banned,…
Largest River Protection Area in Europe — in Croatia and Hungary
Croatia and Hungary signed an agreement yesterday to protect a major biodiversity area that crosses borders along three rivers. The agreement is being called a “Trans-Boundary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve” and has resulted in the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) awarding the…