Show your support to ensure healthy seas by 2020
Governments must ensure our seas achieve “Good Environmental Status” by 2020. i.e. healthy, clean and productive. And they have to do it under something called the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).
Marine litter, biodiversity, fisheries, alien species and seven other areas come under this umbrella legislation – but so far it’s been all talk and now action needs to be taken.
Europe’s seas are in a bad way and this is a vital opportunity not to be missed.
For the first time, marine litter from all sources has been recognised as a distinct threat to our seas. This is the best chance we have to get something done!
What can you do?
The UK Government now wants to know what people think about its plans to reach these goals by 2020 via a public consultation.
Show your support for cleaner, healthier seas in the UK and Europe by signing this letter by the Marine Conservation Society. Feel free to edit it to give your views in your own words.
For more information about the Marine Conservation Society, visit www.mcsuk.org.
