Conservationists buy fishing license to save Great Barrier Reef dugongs

    Conservationists buy fishing license to save Great Barrier Reef dugongs

    An unconventional action by WWF Australia which intends to create a marine protected area north of the Great Barrier Reef by removing the fishing nets present here. It is not the first time that the NGO has done this to protect the ocean


    He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

    They did it again, WWF conservationists bought a gillnet fishing license for protect the marine species that populate the Australian seas and the waters along the Great Barrier Reef where more and more animals are injured by fishing lines and nets and frequently die trapped in them.




    But why does the NGO that fights for the environment hold not one, but four fishing licenses? Simple, the purchase of the permits is part of the Net-Free North campaign, with which WWF Australia intends to remove the fishing nets in the north-east part of the Great Barrier Reef that goes from Cape Flattery to Torres Strait and build here an immense protected reserve of 100.000 km² that far exceeds the extent of Tasmania. 

    ?GREAT NEWS FOR DUGONGS!!!
    Thanks to your support we have purchased one of the last major commercial gills nets in the far northern Great Barrier Reef! This means that 90-95% of commercial gills nets in the area have now been removed…That's ~100,000km2 of protected marine oasis pic.twitter.com/XOJvw3H4hO

    — WWF_Australia (@WWF_Australia) March 13, 2022

    The project launched by the NGO intends to create a paradise for dugongs, dolphins and hammerhead sharks where no one pays attention to their peace. 

    The WWF estimates that 7.000 dugongs live in the aforementioned area, more than 280 sea turtles and many other endangered species that end up in gillnets every year, unable to free you anymore. A gillnet is in fact a very common fishing method which consists in vertically positioning a curtain with rectangular meshes that leaves no escape for the animals.

    Each gillnet is 600 meters long which correspond to 12 Olympic swimming pools. 

    Thanks to the support of its supporters, WWF Australia has so far removed 90-95% of all networks in the area, holding almost all the altitudes in the region north of the reef. The institution is still asking everyone for help, inviting them to sign the petition on the initiative's website. 


    Fonte: Net-Free North/WWF Australia


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