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Advocates, countries and conservation outfits are calling for a halt to deep sea exploration, hoping to let the science catch up with the prospector's profit desires.
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Pelenatita Kara travels regularly to the outer islands of Tonga, her low-lying Pacific Island home, to educate fishers and farmers about seabed mining. For many of the people she meets, seabed mining is an unfamiliar term. Before Kara began appearing on radio programs, few people knew their government had sponsored a company to mine minerals from the […]
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Tonga civil society strongly opposes deep sea mining and reaffirms a total ban on all mining activities, saying the region including the kingdom needs to act. That position was made clear during the recent Pacific Blue Line webinar hosted by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) and partners, a series that advocates against threats of deep sea mining. Between 2019 and 2020, groups in Tonga were pushing for a moratorium on deep sea mining when mining company DeepGreen Minerals started a heavy public push for the approval of licenses. “There seems to be a lot more messaging from Deep Gr...