🌊🐢Today is #WorldSeaTurtleDay. 🌊🐢 Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles around the world die every year, caught in fishing gear. #Bycatch seriously affects seaturtle + seabird populations. To save them, fishing practices must change. birdlife.org/europe-and-cent… #OceanAlert

Northern Gannets fly thousands of miles from Europe to West Africa but many end up as victims of #bycatch, caught in EU fishing boats off West African coasts. We need better monitoring & controls over the EU external fleet now! #CFPreality #OceanAlert #WMBD2018 #SeabirdSaturday

“NISURI Fastset”: an Ecuadorian bycatch solution adapted to the Mediterranean: seabirdbycatch.com/2018/08/1…. #SaveSeabirds

Seeing clear blue waters full of plastic is revolting, but imagine a dead dolphin caught in a fisher's net or a dead Shearwater caught on a fishing line, which happens much too often: birdlife.org/europe-and-cent… #OceanAlert #CFPreality

Every year in Europe, bycatch kills over 200,000 seabirds. They forage in areas targeted by commercial fishing vessels and are accidentally caught on hooks or entangled in nets. Read our position paper on demersal fisheries: birdlife.org/Position-on-Dem… #OceanAlert #CFPreality

Every year in Europe, bycatch kills over 200,000 seabirds. They forage in areas targeted by commercial fishing vessels and are accidentally caught on hooks or entangled in nets. Read our position paper on demersal fisheries: birdlife.org/Position-on-Dem… #OceanAlert #CFPreality

Report on the state of the world’s birds reveals a biodiversity crisis driven by intensive farming, with once-common species such as puffins and snowy owls now at risk: theguardian.com/environment/… #FutureofCAP #NatureAlert

State of the World’s Birds 2018’: many ‘common’ bird species like Atlantic Puffin & Black-legged kittiwake are now at risk of extinction warns BirdLife in new report on health of global bird populations tinyurl.com/y95bhum5 #PulseOfThePlanet #NatureAlert

#OceanAlert – TODAY! LOD/BirdLife Lithuania hosting a seminar to find solutions to tackle seabird bycatch with #fishers and Lithuanian government – follow @B_a_campos for live tweets

Bosphorus bycatch of majestic yelkouan shearwater in fishing gears this past week has been stopped by municipal police. Our partner @DogaDernegi thanks everyone around the world who retweeted #RedAlertForYelkouan for their support – it really made a difference! #SaveSeabirds

Tens of thousands of YELKOUAN SHEARWATERS are now foraging & feeding in the center of the Bosphorus, Turkey. But sadly instances of seabird bycatch in fishing gears have also shot up. @DogaNetwork volunteers are on site to rescue the birds #RedAlertForYelkouan #SaveSeabirds

#SaveSeabirds over Scotland! @RSPBScotland been nominated for a #Natura2000 award for its work on the tiny Shiant Isles protecting puffins, razorbills, guillemots, shags and kittiwakes from rat invasions ow.ly/ltPS30jlNp4 vimeo.com/237721211

In a joint letter, @BirdLifeEurope and 4 other environmental NGOs explain why the proposed regulation to conserve the marine environment through fisheries technical measures (COM(2016)0134) undermines nature and fisheries policies and should be withdrawn: awsassets.panda.org/download…

BREAK 'THE SILENCE OF THE LEADERS': as European leaders assembled in Brussels to debate #EUbudget on Friday, BirdLife led 133 NGOs in demo to demand more money for nature. Read our press release: ow.ly/Xpa630izIGt #EUCO #NatureAlert #FutureofEurope

Well done @ornithologiki for your work to successfully extend Greece’s #Natura2000 network. Great news for seabirds, monk seals, marine turtles and dolphins!! #SaveSeabirds #OceanAlert ow.ly/bl5H30hSpFT

1 million hectares of protected waters: @ornithologiki secures massive extension of Greece’s #Natura2000 network #SaveSeabirds #OceanAlert ow.ly/JE9k30hSpzT

Well done @ornithologiki for your work to successfully extend Greece’s #Natura2000 network. Great news for seabirds, monk seals, marine turtles and dolphins!! #SaveSeabirds #OceanAlert ow.ly/84rA30hSptC

1 million hectares of protected waters: @ornithologiki secures massive extension of Greece’s #Natura2000 network #SaveSeabirds #OceanAlert ow.ly/P8X930hSpp7

Well done @ornithologiki for your work to successfully extend Greece’s #Natura2000 network. Great news for seabirds, monk seals, marine turtles and dolphins!! ow.ly/rNhX30hSp8F #SaveSeabirds #OceanAlert