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One wrong move could be fatal: the divers risking their lives to save whales from ‘ghost nets’ Abandoned fishing equipment haunts our oceans, killing coral, turtles, sharks and whales. But in Colombia’s Gulf of Tribugá, ‘guardians’ are on call to free entangled marine animals

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A black plastic bag containing beach litter with two pairs of litter pickers to the side.

A little time spent picking up beach litter with my son this afternoon, a lot of it is fishing twine #BeachClean #GhostFishingGear #WorldOceanDay #Take3ForTheSea #2MinuteBeachClean #BeatPlasticPollution #CleanSeas #CleanCoasts #ProtectMarineLife #Rathlin #Sustainability

Volunteers issue stark warning after removing 1,300-foot item from ocean: 'One of the worst ones we've done' — The Cool Down The group ended up removing a more gruesome scene than they had anticipated. May 14, 2025 Volunteers discovered a gruesome scene of trapped, deceased wildlife in a large mess of abandoned fishing nets...

Hard ocean story but important.

🌎 #netfishingear #ghostfishinggear #plasticpollution #by-catchdeaths #banillegalfishingpractices #trawlfishingdestruction

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