UNESCO highlights lack of funding for ocean research

Lack of funding is hampering the development and implementation of marine research and its valuable applications, according to a report published by United Nations agency UNESCO. The Second Global Ocean Science Report, published by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), finds that on average, states devote only 1.7% of their research budgets to sciences of the…

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UNESCO calls for Mowi heritage site talks

THE Norwegian branch of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Conservation Organisation – better known as UNESCO – is calling for a meeting with the Oslo government over plans to allow Mowi to develop aquaculture on one of its world heritage sites. Following a long running dispute and a series of appeals, Mowi was granted…

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Mowi receives clearance to farm on World Heritage site

MOWI has finally been given official clearance to carry out salmon and trout farming on a UNESCO World Heritage site in a remote region of northern Norway known as Rødskjæran on the Vega Islands. The decision should finally end a long running dispute between the salmon farming giant (which began in 2016 when it was…

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Farm ban at world heritage site

MOWI has been told it cannot continue with plans to carry out fish farming on a UNESCO world heritage site in a remote region of Northern Norway known as the Vega islands. The country’s Climate Change and Environment Directorate has withdrawn permission granted to the company by Nordland’s county governor almost three years ago when…

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Global expert now a SAMS prof

A MARINE ecologist who is a global authority on the impacts of invasive non-native species has been been awarded a professorship from the University of the Highlands and Islands. Prof Elizabeth Cottier-Cook has earned a worldwide reputation through her work at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) UHI in Oban, which has also focused…

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