MAP Action Alerts

Save the Sundarbans - Stop The Phulbari Coal Mine

The Phulbari Coal Mine Project would establish one of the world’s largest open pit coal mines in northwest Bangladesh, forcibly displacing as many as 130,000 people, including more than 2,200 indigenous households.

Request for Support to Protect Bimini Island

 

We Don't Want Your Blood-Stained Prawns

Spain, France and Italy are the major importers of prawns farmed in the tropics – an unsustainable industry which causes poverty and armed conflicts.

Brazil's Mangroves In Peril If New Legislation Passes

 

REEF RESCUE ACTION ALERT

This years attempt by the Florida legislature to never let a good deed go unpunished is a renewed attack on the 2008 ocean outfall bill that outlaws the archaic practice of dumping 396,000,000 gallons a day of inadequately treated sewage into the coastal waters of southeast Florida.

Stop Exploitative Land Transformations in Mozambique

 

Act Now to Protect the Mekong

 

Shrimp Farming – An Ecological and Social Disaster

 

Kenya and the World Stand Against Plans for Second Port

 

Washington State Residents - Help Halt Fish Farming in Our Coastal Waters

 

Updated Information - Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue "Standards" Create Concern - Your Comments Are Needed

Faulty standards are being readied to hand over to the newly formed Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) sometime after April. We feel the situation is rather urgent, and urge our members and associates to send their own comments stating your concerns about the shrimp standards setting process and its ill-derived standards to Corey Peet, who is the new executive director of the Shrimp Aquaculture "Dialogue."

Oldest Rainforest in the World to Become a Palm Oil Plantation

 

Defend Honduran Environmental Efforts

 

Proposed Rail-line in the Adjacent Areas of the Sundarbans

Recently, from some of the daily newspapers, we have come to know that the Government of Bangladesh is going to set up rail-line from Navaran of Jessore District to Munshiganj of Satkhira District which is very adjacent to the Sundarbans. According to the news, there are deep forests and shrimp farms on the designed rail-line and hundreds of the mangrove trees will be subjected to clear-cut for installation of the infrastructures. The news also said that the wildlife may be hampered due to high decimal sound of the railway and environment and ecology will be threatened for regular operation of the rail coaches.

Save India’s Olive Ridley Sea Turtles from New Port Construction

The construction of a proposed port along one of India’s critical Olive Ridley nesting beaches jeopardizes the future of this unique sea turtle population. The South Korean steel maker POSCO plans to construct the port at Jatadhar in Orissa that would introduce bright lights, massive vessels, and consistent dredging into sensitive habitat for these threatened sea turtles

Balikpapan Bay

Balikpapan Bay in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, sustains a remarkable variety of forest and estuarine ecosystems, including diverse tropical dipterocarp rainforest, mature mangrove forests, shallow bay waters, important sea-grass habitats, and coral reefs. These unique coastal environments have been severely reduced and degraded throughout much of the rest of East Kalimantan. Balikpapan Bay and its adjoining forest ecosystems provide critical habitat for a variety of rare and threatened wildlife species.

Don't Let Experimental Genetically Engineered Salmon Reach Your Plate

The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is U.S. Food agencies don't have a way to fully evaluate the impacts of GE salmon on human health or the environment.

The World Bank is Wrong: Oil palm plantations cannot be 'sustainable'

Oil palm monoculture plantations are not and will never be sustainable” say environmentalist organizations such as Biofuelwatch, Rainforest Rescue, Ecologistas en Accion and the World Rainforest Movement, after the review process –more formal than real- of the World Bank investments in oil palm.

Save the Royal Bengal Tiger in Bangladesh

We know the Panthera Tigris, which local name is Royal Bengal Tiger in Bangladesh, are threatened with extinction. Only 4500 to 5000 tigers of this species remain in the whole world, instead of their earlier estimates of nearly 100,000. Within the 5000 of Panthera Tigris in the world, there are 450 to 500 living in Bangladesh. So it is important to conserve this threatened specie in the Bangladesh Sundarbans. But the tiger/ human conflict is a common phenomenon in the Sundarbans and adjacent area. Tigers are killing humans and humans are killing the tigers. In every case when the usually elusive tiger enters into the human habitant, they are killed by the local people.

Appeal from the east coast of Saudi Arabia

The Unlawful & unfair landfill continuing for nearly 4 years has led to the destruction and disappearance 90% of the forest mangroves on east coast of Arabian Peninsula, Which turn led to an imbalance of inherent nature of marine life and began to disappearance of many marine biology Threatening economy of marine wealth and future of thousands fishermen and their families and the future life of nature.