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![Greenpeace activists on a small boat hold up a stop deep sea mining banner in front of a giant industrial ship](https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GP1SV57N_PressMedia-640x416.jpg)
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Government-funded deep sea mining research vessel confronted by Indigenous activists
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UK Government must not undermine Global Ocean Treaty by greenlighting deep sea mining
Historic UN Ocean Treaty agreed – Greenpeace statement
New York, 4 March 2023 - A historic UN Ocean Treaty has finally been agreed at the United Nations after almost two decades of negotiations.
![Aerial view of a giant fishing ship with a net trailing behind it](https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GP03QPJ_PressMedia-640x425.jpg)
Government plans to manage fishing in Marine Protected Areas is unambitious in the face of the industrial fishing frenzy
A Defra consultation announced today is way too slow to deal with the industrial fishing frenzy gripping our so-called Marine Protected Areas
![Gulls swarm around a giant fishing net as it's pulled out of the water, weighed down with an enormous catch.](https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GP1SUGIW_PressMedia-640x371.jpg)
30×30 target agreed at COP15 but lacks crucial detail to stop mass extinction
![Fish heads stick through the holes of a bulging net as it's lifted from the water](https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GP1SVKG6_Web_size_with_credit_line-638x425.jpg)
92% of the UK’s Marine Protected Areas do not have full protection from destructive fishing
![A boulder throws up a plume of rainbow spray as it's released from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza into the sea.](https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/021_GP1SUVB8_PressMedia-637x425.jpg)
Government’s Marine Management Organisation blocks Greenpeace UK boulder action overnight
The MMO, the government agency in charge of protecting our seas, has intervened to stop Greenpeace UK placing more boulders in the South West Deeps (East) Marine Protected Area to shield it from destructive bottom trawling
BREAKING: Government’s Marine Management Organisation blocks Greenpeace UK boulder action overnight
The Marine Management Organisation threatened Poole Harbour Commissioners with legal action if they allowed the boulders into port.
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