The New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life aerial survey team spotted three endangered blue whales on consecutive days over the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and southern New England waters!
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As Lance Morgan @savingoceans.bsky.social states, "Nature is what our economies, our livelihoods, our well-being, depend on." Read this new @sierramagazine.bsky.social article on the value of marine monuments, and the risks with rolling back ocean protections:
Geologist @deepseadawn.bsky.social reminds us: "Everything is interconnected… we are a part of the ocean – not separate from it." What happens 7 miles down could affect the air we breathe and the food we eat. Let’s #DefendTheDeep. Read her op-ed:
🌊 Marine Protected Areas don’t “close the ocean.” They protect what keeps it working—marine life, healthy fisheries, and the coastal economies that depend on them. When the ocean recovers, communities grow stronger.
🎥 Watch the documentary and sign the petition
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📸: Sachamama
🚨BREAKING: The Trump Administration is breaking the law again – this time by attacking the only marine monument on the East Coast, hurting coastal communities, marine life, and the health of our ocean. #SaveTheSeamounts 🌊 🐳🪸
⚠️ ALERT: Deep-sea mining just got a green light to bypass accountability. NOAA's final rule allows companies to lock in commercial mining rights without a separate exploration phase. Scientists warn of irreversible harm to a vital ecosystem. 🌎🚫 Read more:
“We have seen how tribal nations are left out of decisions that affect their sacred lands. I don’t want to see Pacific Island communities see the same fate.” Thank you @repyassansari.bsky.social. Congress must say NO to deep sea mining. #DefendTheDeep
“Deep sea mining is a solution in search of a problem.” Thank you @rephuffman.bsky.social for speaking up for the ocean. Deep sea mining is reckless, unnecessary, and deeply unpopular. Congress must #DefendTheDeep
“Before Congress allows deep sea mining to move forward, we must stop, listen and put real protections in place… and ensure communities are not forced to carry all the risk for someone else.” Thanks, @Rep_Grijalva, for advocating for indigenous sovereignty and sacred ecosystems!
“The ocean is not something we talk about in theory: it is how we live, it feeds our family, it holds our history and connects our people to generations before us.” Thank you @RepMoylan. Deep sea mining has NO place in Pacific waters. #DefendTheDeep
Deep sea mining is reckless, untested, and threatens the very fabric of island communities. @RepKimKingHinds has it right: “In places like the Marianas, American Samoa, and Guam, we don’t get the luxury of being wrong… There’s no ‘fix it and move it somewhere else.’”
“We are united here today to protect our homeland.” Thank you @RepAmata, @RepMoylan, and @RepKimKingHinds for your powerful words! Communities across the Pacific are saying “hell nah” to deep sea mining. #DefendTheDeep
Many Pacific cultures "walk backwards into the future," letting ancestors' lessons guide them. Deep-sea mining ignores history, risking irreversible harm to our sacred oceans. 🌊🛶 Read why so many oppose it: tinyurl.com/ybxetrzr
📢 Youth leaders ages 13–25 are invited to
@EarthEcho’s 2026 Youth Leadership Summit: Building ResilienSEA, happening January 29-February 1! Connect with peers to explore ocean topics and gain the skills to take meaningful action in your community.
✍️ Register today earthecho.org/youth-summit
🚨New report 🚨Deep-sea mining in American Samoa is NOT economically viable. Flawed models, underestimated costs, and immature tech plague proponents. 📉 Register for the webinar to get the facts!
Our marine national monuments are havens for everything living within them, from tiny plankton to giant whales. But now, the Trump administration wants to industrialize these national treasures. Read why this former @NOAA director says enough is enough:
Tomorrow is #NationalMarineSanctuaryDay, a national day celebrating our connection to America’s public waters in our ocean & Great Lakes! These areas offer opportunities to explore both on the water and from the shore. Join and learn more about the celebration at NationalMarineSanctuaryDay.org!
President and CEO of Minorities in Shark Sciences, Jasmin Graham, shares how she's defying stereotypes and telling her own story. 🦈
Watch more from the 2025 Ocean Progress Symposium: https://www.americanprogress.org/events/ocean-progress-symposium-2025-advancing-conservation-close-to-shore/
“Papahānaumokuākea is ecologically unmatched and spiritually inseparable from Hawaiian identity.” -Kanoeʻulalani Morishige, @CivilBeat. This #IndigenousPeoplesDay, take action to safeguard sacred ocean places. Sign the petition in article: tinyurl.com/3jd4tt7m
Industrial fishing harms vulnerable marine ecosystems. In 2015 alone, nearly 6,600 sharks were caught in the area now protected by Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. POTUS wants to roll back these protections. Tell @NOAA you support our marine monuments! 🪸🐋 https://linkly.link/2F3tY
Marine monuments protect ocean wildlife and areas connected to cultural and historic traditions.
POTUS is undermining these special places and laying the groundwork to destroy protected areas. Support marine monuments and tell @NOAA to #ProtectOurOcean! https://linkly.link/2F3tY
🚨NEW TOOL🚨 @envdefensefund.bsky.social just launched an interactive map showing NOAA’s 735 sites in communities across the U.S.. NOAA makes life-saving weather alerts as well as sustainable seafood and jobs available, and it can help identify the impacts. tinyurl.com/2hhnwwbs
Happy 9th designation anniversary for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument! 🌊🎉🐋
Check out the New England Aquarium's blog on their recent aerial survey of the Monument that identified over 500 animals! #marinemonument bit.ly/3VNHTzy
🚨 1 WEEK LEFT TO APPLY🚨
Join the U.S. cohort of @EarthEcho’s Ocean Protection Ambassador Program and lead campaigns to advance and defend ocean protections in the United States.
Youth ages 17-22, learn more and apply by September 17, 2025 for this PAID opportunity at: bit.ly/OPA-apply! #GenSea
Cool science alert! Follow along with @delmns.bsky.social as researchers look for seabirds, sample water for eDNA, & explore deep sea corals of the Northeast Canyons & Seamounts Marine National Monument 🪸🌊
“Our waters are not isolated. We live here.” Deep sea mining companies think it’s better to mine the “remote” Pacific seabed than mining on land. But American Samoans say NO to deep-sea mining. Read more from @grist.org : tinyurl.com/4snr2u6t
#DefendTheDeep #ProtectOurOcean
🌍 Applications are open for @EarthEcho’s U.S. Ocean Protection Ambassadors! If you’re 17-22 and ready to lead campaigns to defend our oceans this is your moment! Gain funding, training, and mentorship to advance ocean protection in the U.S. Apply by September 17 at: bit.ly/OPA-apply #GenSea
After a decade of protection, the Pacific Islands Heritage marine monument was opened to industrial fishing & closed again. New in @nature.com, scientists call for better understanding the impacts of these back-and-forth policies on marine life & communities: tinyurl.com/yc8n4mv6
From FutureSwell
Last week a federal district court ruled that commercial fishing cannot legally continue in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument
Letʻs keep it going, sign Pacific Islands Heritage Coalition’s petition here: linktr.ee/pricoalition
#PIHMNM must remain protected!
This week, NOPC joined ocean advocates to deliver a clear message to Congress: NOAA saves lives.
NOAA plays a crucial role in protecting against threats to our nation’s marine protected areas.
Say NO to cutting NOAA. Say YES to saving lives and our ocean.
