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- Video Co-produced by Mangrove Action Project to be Screened at Rio Film Festival
- Festival Visões Periféricas is the only film festival in Rio conceived especially to bring together Brazil’s best artistic production from inner-city and marginalized communities. (23 May 2007) MAP
- Shrimp from Ceara (Brazil) loosing out in international markets
- From January to April of this year, exports of the crustacean have dropped 62.2% compared with the same period last year (22 May 2007) Diario do Nordeste
- MAP Announces its Spin-off from Earth Island Institute and Receiving its own Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Status
- Mangrove Action Project to become independent (23 May 2007) MAP
- Border closed to Honduran shrimp larvae
- Chinese feed is cause for worry for Nicaraguan sanitary authorities (23 May 2007) El Nuevo Diario
- Wal-Mart to push sustainable shrimp
- More evidence that Big Food is listening to the growing clamor for sustainable products surfaced last week at Monterey Aquarium's Cooking for Solutions confab. (23 May 2007) San Francisco Chronicle
- U.S. plan to use old rigs for aquaculture raises concerns
- Environmental and fishing groups are urging the Interior Department not to use proposed rules governing alternative uses of oil-and-gas platforms in federal waters to promote offshore aquaculture. (22 May 2007) Greenwire
- Multinational firms precipitate Chile's salmon farm crisis, seminar told
- A seminar organized by Ecoceanos on the use of antibiotics in Chilean salmon faming has criticized multinational companies for their lack of corporate social and environmental responsibility, citing massive use of antibiotics and health and safety abuses at work. (21 May 2007) Ecoceanos News
- Chinese catfish imports slip through cracks in US food safety system
- Noticing that catfish imports from China had skyrocketed, Southern States began testing the imported fish. What they found surprised them - two banned antibiotics. (21 May 2007) Chicago Tribune
- Shrimp Farming Being Promoted By Big Oil In Niger Delta
- The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development contends that the project is targeting the fragmentary mangrove forests of the Niger Delta. (20 May 2007) CEHRD
- U.N. Professor Says Climate Change Is Creating New Refugees Who Deserve U.N. Protection
- Increasing global temperatures and land degradation are forcing more people to migrate, creating a wave of environmental refugees (17 May 2007) Associated Press
