It’s time to end the pile-up of plastic in our bodies and planet 🚨 Plastic shapes daily life in ways we often hardly notice. The food we eat, bottles and utensils, the air we breathe - it all contains plastic particles that make their way into our system and risk serious damage to our health.

🌱 Are you a communications professional with a passion for environmental justice? We're #Hiring a Senior Communications Manager! They will manage colleagues in the communications team and oversee the implementation of EJF’s content and digital communications. Apply by 6pm BST, 11 September:

Senior Communications Manager

Senior Communications Manager Position: Senior Communications Manager Based: London (hybrid) Contract: Full-time, permanent Salary: £50,000–£60,000,…

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🌱 Mangrove forests bring life to the planet. In Ghana, the rapid destruction of mangrove forests threatens the health of coastal ecosystems and community livelihoods. Mangroves shelter animal species, nurture fisheries, guard shorelines from erosion and storms and sequester vast amounts of carbon.

🚨 Today is the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. The exploitation of fishers begins at recruitment. Rogue recruiting agencies promise high wages for work abroad, but end up withholding or cutting salaries. The reality of life on board is also very different from what is presented to them.

We’re #Hiring an AI Innovation Lead 🚨 We’re looking for someone to lead the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence across the organisation. Candidates should have a strong technical understanding of AI and judgement on ethics, governance, and data security. Apply by August 21st:

AI Innovation Lead

First, you will deliver a clear, actionable assessment of how AI could further EJF’s objectives, including a review of current and emerging tools and…

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🐢 Communities are coming together to protect Liberia’s sea turtles 🇱🇷 For generations, coastal communities in Grand Kru County have relied on the ocean for their food security and income. However, sea turtles and their eggs are routinely caught, consumed, or sold. Read our new blog:

Supporting coastal communities to protect sea turtles in Liberia

The laws protecting sea turtles were unknown; sea turtles, and their eggs, were routinely caught, consumed, or sold in markets alongside other seafood.…

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🚨 We’re in the midst of a climate emergency, and climate refugees are on the frontlines. It is often those made invisible who suffer the most from the climate crisis, as the impacts hit communities in low-income countries first and worst. 📸 Resident of Dadaab Refugee Complex, Kenya

⚖️ Mit der neuen #MPALegalCoalition schließen wir uns mit Organisationen aus ganz Europa zusammen, um echten #Meeresschutz durchzusetzen. Wir bündeln rechtliche Expertise, koordinieren Verfahren und geben europaweit neuen Auftrieb, um Meeresschutz zu stärken: mpa-legal-coalition.org

🦈 Illegal shark finning still takes place on tuna vessels in the Atlantic. Our recent investigation has exposed how the port of Dakar is used as the gateway to the global shark fin trade. Perpetrators can land the fins at port and conceal them without inspection, despite regulations.

🌊 The Ocean Act is our moment to turn ocean commitments into measurable outcomes. Yesterday's exchange with Commissioner Kadis focused on what matters most: ➡️ Stronger governance frameworks with real accountability ➡️ Effective marine protected areas ➡️ Concrete support for coastal communities

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Today, we joined blue NGOs and met with Commissioner Costas Kadis to call for a strong and enforceable #EUOceanAct – one that restores marine ecosystems, delivers effective protection, and supports resilient small-scale, low-impact fishers and coastal communities.

🦈 Cut and run: How cruel, brutal, and illegal shark finning is committed with impunity in Senegal In a shocking new investigation, we’ve linked evidence of illegal shark finning on board China and Taiwan’s distant-water tuna vessels to the port of Dakar.

🚨 Heatwaves are destroying lives and the planet - how many more must die before our leaders act? Scientists have estimated that 2,700 people across England and Wales have lost their lives prematurely due to extreme heat, supercharged by the climate crisis.

May and June heatwaves killed about 2,700 people in England and Wales, data suggests

Extreme heat led to 440 deaths a day during June peak, say scientists, with climate crisis ramping up temperatures

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🏆 L'EJF a remporté le Prix Impact des TrustLaw Awards 2026 pour ses recherches juridiques protégeant les mers d'Europe. Le chalutage de fond dévaste la vie marine dans les aires protégées. Nos preuves sont devenues un procès. Puis une plainte collective. Maintenant, du vrai changement.

🏆 EJF has won the TrustLaw Impact Award 2026 for legal research protecting Europe's seas. Bottom trawling devastates marine life in protected areas. Our evidence became a court case, then a coalition complaint to the EU, and now, real change.

🌏 We’re #Hiring a Global Programme Coordinator, Environmental Defenders! This is an exciting role for an experienced coordinator to strengthen and expand our Environmental Defenders programme training, equipping and supporting campaigners and journalists in the Global South. Apply by 31 July:

Global Programme Coordinator, Environmental Defenders

Global Programme Coordinator, Environmental Defenders Position: Global Programme Coordinator, Environmental Defenders Location : London (minimum of 3 days…

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🐟 Foreign trawlers - the vast majority from China - are plundering West Africa’s seas. From encroachments into zones protected for small-scale fishing to the destruction of nets and fishing boats, the livelihoods of artisanal fishers are being stolen. 🗞️ Read more in the BBC ⬇️

On #WorldZoonosesDay, we must reset our relationship with nature to avoid future pandemics. Commercial wildlife markets and habitat loss bring humans into closer contact with wildlife, allowing diseases to jump the species barrier. This ongoing exploitation of nature threatens the entire planet.

🪸 Europe has some of the strongest nature laws in the world. Too often, they are ignored. Today, we've joined ten other organisations to launch the MPA Legal Coalition. Through coordinated legal action and collective advocacy, we will work to ensure Europe's protected waters are truly protected.

Les tribunaux 🇫🇷 viennent de l'affirmer : les protections marines actuelles sont insuffisantes. 9 mois pour les renforcer. Notre nouveau rapport montre pourquoi, 2 millions d'heures de chalutage de fond dans les aires marines protégées. La responsabilité juridique fonctionne. Agissons maintenant. 🌊

At the AGRIFISH Council, Commissioner Kadis confirmed: Illegal discarding reaches 80% in some 🇪🇺 fisheries. Denmark's new minister has the answer: Electronic monitoring, including cameras, on the most discard-prone vessels. The evidence backs it. The technology exists. Now we need action.

Marine protected areas aren't supposed to exist on paper alone. Today, EJF and Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. (DUH) are taking the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea case to court. Bottom trawling has devastated these habitats for too long. It's time authorities enforced the law. 🌊 Read more:

Legal action launched against bottom trawling in the German Wadden Sea

The Environmental Justice Foundation exists to protect the natural world and defend our basic human right to a secure environment.

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👏 Last week, 16 countries signed the Mombasa Declaration at #OOC11! This reflects a growing recognition that #transparency is essential to tackling illegal fishing, ending human rights abuses at sea, and protecting ocean ecosystems. Hear from Amélie Giardini, EJF’s Global Lead for Transparency 🎬

🦑 On the high seas, fleets are plundering vital squid populations, out of sight and out of control. EJF campaigners are working on the ground at the #OurOceanKenya to work with countries to put an end to unregulated squid fishing. 🎬 Hear from Dominic Thomson, EJF’s Director of Squid Fisheries.

📣 Ghana has committed itself to upholding transparency at sea. By signing the Mombasa Declaration, they have committed themselves to ending illegal fishing and empowering coastal communities. The rest of the world must follow. 🎬 Hear more from Dr. Edna Quansah, EJF’s Science and Research Manager.

🌊 Africa’s leadership is moving us towards sustainable, transparent ocean governance: Today, Liberia has taken important steps forward. 🎬 Hear more from Cephas Asare, EJF’s West Africa Regional Manager, speaking from the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa. #OOC11 #OurOceanKenya

🐟 Our campaigners are on the ground in Mombasa at the Our Ocean Conference, working hard with the Coalition for Fisheries Transparency to achieve a more sustainable and ethical future for the ocean. Together, we can build a more transparent and sustainable future for our oceans. 🌊 #OOC11

⚖️ La protection du milieu marin n’est pas une simple formalité administrative 🪸 Les autorités françaises se sont vu fixer un délai légal pour renforcer les mesures de protection du site Natura 2000 des Bancs des Flandres contre le chalutage de fond.

Protection des océans : la justice rappelle que les mesures Natura…

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⚖️ Marine protection cannot be a box-ticking exercise 🪸 French authorities have been given a legal deadline to strengthen protection measures for the Bancs des Flandres Natura 2000 site. Conservation measures should be judged by their ecological results, not by the existence of procedures alone.

Ocean Protection: French Court Rules That Natura 2000 Measures Must…

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“Billions of dollars now are being lost to those local economies... They are targeting species that are the bedrock, not just of livelihoods and jobs, but of food security." Hear from Steve Trent, EJF CEO and Founder, in his interview with the BBC on illegal fishing in Sierra Leone:

Business Daily - Who’s behind Sierra Leone’s illegal fishing problem? - BBC Sounds

We try to ascertain who is behind it and what the country's government is doing to help

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🎨 🌱 Artists and environmentalists take to Corumbá’s streets The Paraguay-Paraná waterway threatens the natural water pulse of the Pantanal. Alongside artists, activists, and communities, we led a movement in defence of the Pantanal against this looming destruction.