WESSA's Stop the Strangle campaign is an urgent action campaign tackling one of the deadliest forms of marine pollution: ghost fishing gear. These are nets, lines and traps abandoned or lost in the ocean, which continue to trap and kill marine life for years. “The Stop the Strangle campaign is designed to turn hands-on coastal action into data-driven conservation outcomes,” adds Mike Denison, WESSA’s Coastal Programme Senior Manager. “The information gathered through the ghost fishing line collection and analysis bins will help strengthen marine research, inform policy discussions and guide future interventions.”
Read more here: https://www.wessa.org.za/stop-the-strangle/
"Thanks to the Ford 100-Bin Relay Project, made possible through the support of the Ford Wildlife Foundation, WESSA is able to extend its reach and impact of the campaign. Enabling us to deepen collaboration with municipalities, conservancies, lifeguard services and coastal partners, while accelerating the national rollout of ghost fishing line collection and analysis bins across South Africa’s coastline," says WESSA CEO, Cindy-Lee Cloete.
WESSA's Stop the Strangle campaign is an urgent action campaign tackling one of the deadliest forms of marine pollution: ghost fishing gear. These are nets, lines and traps abandoned or lost in the ocean, which continue to trap and kill marine life for years. “The Stop the Strangle campaign is designed to turn hands-on coastal action into data-driven conservation outcomes,” adds Mike Denison, WESSA’s Coastal Programme Senior Manager. “The information gathered through the ghost fishing line collection and analysis bins will help strengthen marine research, inform policy discussions and guide future interventions.”
Read more here: https://www.wessa.org.za/stop-the-strangle/
"Thanks to the Ford 100-Bin Relay Project, made possible through the support of the Ford Wildlife Foundation, WESSA is able to extend its reach and impact of the campaign. Enabling us to deepen collaboration with municipalities, conservancies, lifeguard services and coastal partners, while accelerating the national rollout of ghost fishing line collection and analysis bins across South Africa’s coastline," says WESSA CEO, Cindy-Lee Cloete.