25 de marzo de 2024

Ecoceanos along with more than 100 organizations and communities demand Chilean Government to implement Salmon Moratorium recommended by UN Special Rapporteur

For the Centro Ecoceanos «the UN Special Rapporteur’s report is a powerful wake-up call from the international community for the government of Gabriel Boric to comply...
13 de marzo de 2024

Ecoceanos Centre demands that the Chilean government implement the moratorium on the expansion of the salmon industry recommended by the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment

•    The UN Special Rapporteur’s report «corroborates the allegations and supports the socio-environmental struggle carried out by citizen organizations, local communities and indigenous peoples against the...
5 de febrero de 2024

A new neoliberal fishing law and the rights of small-scale fishing communities in Chile

Both the civil and military dictatorship of 1973-1990 and subsequent civilian governments made several attempts to privatize Chile’s valuable fisheries. They failed due to the resistance...
11 de noviembre de 2023

Norwegian salmon farmers continue intimidation strategy against Scottish environmentalist «for being a biosecurity risk at marine sites»

In Chile, Ecoceanos Centre expressed its solidarity with Don Staniford, founder of Salmon Scottish (formerly Salmon Scottish Watch) and director of the Salmon Farm Protest Group...
7 de noviembre de 2023

Massive Global Call to President Boric to Strengthen Chile’s Whale Sanctuary

Juan Carlos Cárdenas, executive director of Ecoceanos Center and also coordinator of the campaign for the creation of Chile’s whale sanctuary, highlighted that “the government of...
23 de octubre de 2023

New diver death in the work of the Chilean salmon exporting industry during 2023

Ecoceanos Centre noted that five workers in the salmon industry have died this year, two of whom were divers, due to the precarious working safety conditions....
20 de julio de 2023

Who’s responsible for the loss of the last southern right whales in Chile?

The Chilean State urgently needs to assume its legal responsibility and resolve the fishing and aquaculture industries’ lack of monitoring and control. Otherwise, we could become...
21 de junio de 2023

Krill fishery and industrial salmon farming threaten whales in Antarctic waters

During the last few years, interest in capturing Antarctic krill has increased due to its growing use in industrial salmon farming as a feed additive to...
15 de junio de 2023

Chilean Biodiversity and Protected Areas Service Law: hostage to the lobby and salmon expansion

The political, economic and media power exhibited during the discussion of the SBAP Law, as well as the growing pressure and threats against indigenous communities and...