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Learn about the extensive threat posed by ghost gears or ghost nets to the marine eco-system. Abandoned by fishermen at sea, these gears continue to trap fish and threaten aquatic eco-systems. Find out how organizations like Veraval research centre of ICAR’s Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Marine National Park (MNP), Jamnagar, and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) are working towards mitigating this issue.

A team of freedivers from the Honolulu-based nonprofit organization Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project returned on Saturday from a 28 day cleanup expedition to the remote Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 

A team from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project, a Hawaiʻi-based nonprofit organization, returned to Honolulu on Wednesday, with 86,100 pounds of marine debris removed from shallow coral reefs and shorelines of the islands and atolls within Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. 

The country’s ‘first mining boom’ drove its oyster reefs to near extinction. But a new generation of artists has a voice their ancestors never did

"People should get involved with any kind of conservation."