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AWARE Week 2021 Taking place 18-26 September 2021, the fourth annual AWARE Week encourages and inspires the global PADI Membership to lead conservation activities and course...

Terrifying and rather sad.....

A new study just came out about the state of the corals in the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba, conducted by Eilat’s Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences. Water temperature off Eilat's coast hit 29.1 degrees Celsius (84.4°F) at one monitoring station, which is the highest temperature recorded since the monitoring began in 2004. Also found: alarming amounts of garbage. The study indicated how 22% of the Gulf's coral reefs were severely degraded after a record-breaking storm hit Eilat earlier in 2020. On the positive side, the scientists believe the reefs of Eilat will manage to recover naturally if left undisturbed. Eilat has banned single use plastic, but come on folks, we can do better! Let's leave those corals in peace to heal. No oil spills, pollution, garbage or touching the corals!

If only people would realize how valuable reefs are ( not just commercially for diving) maybe the world's reefs would be in better shape.

𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖?

Coral reefs are the medicine chests of the 21st century, with more than half of all new cancer drug research focusing on marine organisms. *Coral reefs have been used in the treatment of cancer, HIV, cardiovascular diseases, ulcers, and other ailments.

*𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 reefresilience.org

Dreadful.

Last nights brutal killing of 1428 white side dolphins was an illegal hunt.
The grindforeman of the district was not informed.
And had he been, he says he wouldn´t have allowed the slaughter to happen.

Instead another grindforeman made the decision, a decision he was not allowed to make.
It is on him that 1428 dolphins were driven for over 40 km.
He made the call for them to be slaughtered even though there weren´t enough people or boats to handle all the dolphins.

He allowed for a complete chaotic massacre to happen.
And he has been reported to the police by locals for this.

A man like that can not have the responsability to decide the fate of migrating whales and dolphins again.
The only right thing to do, is to strip him of his authority.
And to ban all future hunts on white sided dolphins.

We applaud the locals who are using their voices to speak up against this, and we ask you to not back down.
You can create change here.
The dolphins need you to.

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AWARE Week 2021 Taking place 18-26 September 2021, the fourth annual AWARE Week encourages and inspires the global PADI Membership to lead conservation activities and course...

Not Acceptable at all!!

Water companies discharged raw sewage into rivers and coastal waters in England more than 400,000 times in 2020, according to Environment Agency data. The spills via combined sewer overflows lasted for 3.1m hours.

Government failing to stop sewage discharge into English rivers, says charity Water companies let raw sewage into English waters more than 400,000 times in 2020, Environment Agency data reveals