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FASHION ACTIVISM – SAVING THE REEF WITH SCARVES
Inspired by her passion for underwater photography, photographer and designer Sophie Robertson has a fierce determination to help protect Australia’s unique coastline, from the Great Barrier Reef all the way to the Great Australian Bight. || That is why she designed a series of beautiful scarves to help us spread the word about the need…
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Happy World Antarctica Day
Antarctica holds 90% of the freshwater on the planet, is the biggest desert in the world, and is the only continent with no native human population. The encircling Antarctic Ocean not only provides life and living space for amazing, unique and iconic wildlife, but it also influences other oceans and wildlife thousands and thousands of…
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What Does Labor’s Victory in the Queensland Election Mean for Adani?
After a heated campaign, it looks like Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor Party will win the Queensland state election, defeating the Liberal National Party and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. | While there were many issues that moved people’s votes, one thing is clear: the future of Adani’s Carmichael coal mine, and Labor’s promised veto of the proposed…
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Can we Create Healthy Oceans and Tackle Climate Change at the Same Time?
“We woke up to the fact that there’s ocean change just like climate change. We need ocean action like there’s climate action.” These words rang out at international climate talks last week, spoken by Peter Thompson, the UN’s special envoy for the ocean. This is just one sign that ensuring healthy oceans is fast becoming…
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Ending the Oil Age
Join the movement to stop oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight and end the age of oil.
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What Happens here affects us all
Climate change doesn’t discriminate and it knows no borders. Carbon emissions in Europe are causing sea levels to rise and submerging low-lying islands thousands of kilometres away. That’s why Pacific Island Represent has taken a detour from Bonn in Germany, to Oslo in Norway, to bear witness at the historic The People vs Arctic Oil…
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Four Beautiful Places Threatened by Climate Change
People v. Arctic Oil , our court case agains the Norwegian Government, is happening right now! Although the court case is focusing on oil drilling in the Arctic, it’s so important to realise that this legal battle will make waves all around the world. Why? Because when it comes to climate change ‘what happens in…
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What Happens in the Arctic Doesn’t Stay in the Arctic – Four Reasons why the Court Case Against Arctic Oil Could Make History
As people and governments around the world are starting to act on climate change, the Norwegian government is moving in the opposite direction – opening up the remote Arctic for new oil drilling and putting people’s lives at risk. MY Arctic Sunrise moored in Svalbard. The winter of 2015/ 2016 represents a record low for…
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Antarctic Krill – Not Just Whale Food
Krill is whale food. In fact, it’s a commonly held misbelief that ‘krill’ in Norwegian literally means ‘whale food’. It doesn’t, but it’s still true. Massive swarms of krill, a tiny micro-shrimp in the Antarctic Ocean, provide the principal food for blue whales – the largest animal that ever lived. Humpback whales travel down the coasts of…
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We have one year to create the largest ever protected area on Earth
In the words of David Attenborough, “Our planet is a blue planet”. With over 70% of our world covered by water, our oceans can be seen from across the solar system. It wasn’t long ago that the oceans were still believed to be too vast for human activity to be able to cause them significant,…