Week in Review: Half of Plastic Trash in Oceans Comes from 5 Countries and More!

1. Half of Plastic Trash in Oceans Comes from 5 Countries More than half of the plastic trash in the ocean come from five countries in Asia or the Pacific Islands. Approximately 60 percent of the plastic trash in the sea originated from China, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand. The quickly growing infrastructure, lack of waste management regulations, and […]

Week in Review: Is Shark Finning Finally on the Decline?

1. Tides Are Turning for the Shark Fishermen of Indonesia and India Indonesia has a total of 118 different species of sharks which marks the world’s highest diversity of sharks. Every year, 73 million sharks are killed for their fins and traded around the world. Combined, Indonesia and India comprise around 20% of the global […]

Sea Save collected over 40k Signatures to Halt Cayman Island Coastal Dredging

Government officials in Grand Cayman Island were going to dredge a critical area of the Georgetown coast.  The installation of the planned pier would have made docking the large cruise ships easier but would have killed much of the world-renown reef system surrounding the island. We were able to collect over 40,000 signatures from around […]