Susan Lieberman, director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group, issued the following statement today in response to the lack of necessary action on high seas biodiversity conservation at the United Nations BBNJ (Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction) meeting, which concluded Friday.

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Read The Latest, Pew Environment Group's newsletter. Learn one woman's story about the shark attack that changed her life, veterans advocating for public lands protection, and a movement to create the first generation of great marine parks.

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Pew calls on States to recommend that the UNGA in this year’s Oceans and the Law of the Sea Resolution initiates the negotiation of a new implementing agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

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The Pew Environment Group on behalf of the High Seas Alliance (a coalition of 23 organizations)  is organizing a side event to discuss the future of biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. 

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This June, on the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, leaders from around the world will return to the Brazilian city for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) and have the opportunity to correct our course to ensure our ocean can sustain marine and human life in the decades to come.

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A great fraud is being committed on an unsuspecting public in some EU member states: fish is being mislabelled and passed off as more expensive or even sustainably caught species.

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The United Nations, the Pew Environment Group, and TARA expeditions invite you to join best-selling authors, marine scientists, fishermen, and ocean explorers at an event to galvanize global support for action on oceans at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development.

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Tens of thousands of fish aggregating devices (FADs) are deployed every year by the world’s tuna purse-seine vessels. These artificial structures function as open-ocean “meeting places,” attracting schools of various species that gather beneath them.

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(Radio Australia) As well as the battle to protect Tuna stocks the 24-nation Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, meeting in Guam has been hearing pleas to protect sharks, especially the highly endangered white tip shark and whale shark.

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The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), a regional fisheries management organization that brings together Pacific island, Asian, U.S., European Union, and other foreign fishers, ended March 30 in Guam with a failure to end overfishing of a major tuna species.

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(Radio Australia) The negotiations between Pacific Islands nations and the United States, Europe, China, Japan and others - failed to find common ground on many issues.

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(Radio Australia) Environment organisations are calling on nations of the Western Pacific to take action a major tuna conservation meeting in Guam this week to protect sharks.

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(Guam News) Delegates from 25 member governments are on Guam for the 8th regular meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission.

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Learn about how the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development can ensure the long term conservation and sustainable use of high seas marine biodiversity.

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In the open ocean, tuna purse-seine operators profit from large pelagic fishes’ propensity to aggregate around drifting objects.

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