ECO Magazine Sargasso Sea Article Photography

On #WorldOceansDay, check out the photos by @nonsuchexpeditions Team Leader & Photographer J-P Rouja (with collection assistance from Chris Flook), in this informative article by the Sargasso Sea Commission Program Manger, Tess Mackey. She outlines why the Sargasso Sea is such a special area of the ocean, and gives great background on a grant that the Commission recently obtained from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This is the first-ever GEF grant designed to address conservation and governance in a well-defined high seas ecosystem.

The Global Environment Facility approved a project titled ‘Common Oceans - Sustainable utilisation and conservation of biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction’ - and the Sargasso Sea ‘child project’ in June 2020. The project is supported by the United Nations Development Programme, and the @ioc_unesco is the executing agency. Other partners of the project include @biosstation , @dukeuniversity Marine Spatial Ecology Lab, the @imperialcollegeCentre for Environmental Policy, @edinburghuniversity , the World Maritime University, and the French Global Environment Fund. The project will also benefit from the Western Tropical Atlantic Planning Group for the Ocean Decade.

Read the full article in ECO Magazine!