Media Release: Pause, not plunder: International Seabed Authority must halt deep-sea mining rush - DSCC The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) is calling for the international community to urgently establish a moratorium on destructive deep-sea mining to prevent irreversible harm to ocean…

📢 As the ISA meets in Jamaica, the DSCC calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining.

The ocean is not for profit — it's our climate ally and shared legacy.
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#DefendTheDeep #StopTheMachines #SayNoToDSM #ISA30

Scars from the world's first deep sea mining test 50 years on Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.

🚨 Scars from the world's first #DeepSeaMining test are still visible 50 years later! No recovery. No biodiversity. Just lifeless tracks etched in the seafloor.

This is the legacy of deep-sea mining—and a warning of what’s to come.

#SayNoToDSM #DefendTheDeep

Frontiers | Deep-Sea Mining With No Net Loss of Biodiversity—An Impossible Aim Deep-sea mining is likely to result in biodiversity loss, and the significance of this to ecosystem function is not known. “Out of kind” biodiversity offsets...

Science indicates that #DeepSeaMining causes permanent, irreversible biodiversity loss—wiping out species we haven’t even discovered yet. 🌊 We must act now to safeguard deep-sea life and halt biodiversity loss before it's too late. #SayNoToDSM

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