Hollywood Actors Back 'Boulder Barrier' Off Suffolk Coast to Protect Porpoises
Greenpeace said the boulders shut off 116 square kilometres to bottom trawling and aim to protect harbour porpoises from destructive fishing.
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Greenpeace activists have sunk Bolovans in the North Sea to hang the fishing nets of large-scale vessels fishing in a protected marine area, reports The Guardian. Activists on board the Greenpeace ship "Arctic Sunrise has sunk the huge stones to form a underwater barrier around the protected marine area (MPA) of the South Sea ...
'Boulder barrier' deployed by activists to protect porpoises in UK waters
Greenpeace activists place giant boulders – each weighing up to two tonnes – onto seabed to create a barrier preventing bottom trawling Greenpeace campaigners have announced that an underwater ‘boulder barrier’ has been created in the UK’s most bottom-trawled Marine Protected Area (MPA) to protect porpoises living there. Over two days, activists placed giant boulders, each weighing up to two tonnes, onto the seabed in the southern North Sea off …
Greenpeace activists deploy underwater ‘boulder barrier’ to protect porpoises in UK's most bottom trawled nature site
Greenpeace UK campaigners have today announced they have created an underwater ‘boulder barrier’ in the UK's most bottom-trawled offshore Marine Protected Area, which was set up to protect harbour porpoises. This comes as episode one of Blue Planet III aired on BBC One last night.
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