Maritime career fair, April 4, 2023, Accra, Ghana
On April 4, the Gulf of Guinea Maritime Institute (GoGMI), based in Accra, Ghana, welcomed high school students from across the country to a maritime [...]
Belgian Ocean Decade Committee reviews its programme
Maria del Carmen Patricia Morales represents Mundus maris asbl in the Belgian Ocean Decade Committee. The Committee which provides scientific guidance met for its last session of [...]
Towards a global network of MPAs for ocean governance
Marine protected areas (MPAs) rightly attract more attention as international biodiversity agreements see them as major instruments to stop mass species extinctions and recover ocean [...]
Mundus maris supports Climate marches, 15 and 17 September 2023
This was a great day for climate protection. On 15 September, 250,000 people turned out in 250 cities and towns in Germany alone demanding Climate [...]
Presenting the FishBase app at the Symposium in Tervuren
The FishBase Team of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, headed by Prof. Jos Snoeks, hosted the annual FishBase-SeaLifeBase Symposium for the [...]
Join the Global Climate Strike, 15 September 2023
Fridays for Future and a very large number of organisations, including Mundus maris, invite you to join the world-wide marches to wean our economies from fossil [...]
The appropriation by modern humans of the Earth and the Oceans
Excellent opportunity to join a lecture of acclaimed author and long-time friend, Daniel Pauly, at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands, on 2 September 2023. [...]
Maritime Security Awareness in Africa: Elevating Youth Voices
Africa remains the world’s youngest continent with a median age of 19.7 years.By 2050, one in three young people will live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Estimates suggest [...]
EU Ocean and Rivers Recovery Mission – Mediterranean Lighthouse
Palermo, Sicily, 30 and 31 May 2023. The regional Lighthouse Activities to recover the badly affected Mediterranean and Black seas brought together representatives of countries, regions, [...]
EP Hearing on EU Citizen Initiative to stop shark finning
Did you know that sharks are killed worldwide in millions especially for their fins? Europe contributes a shocking 45% to the shark fin trade to Asian [...]