The Unexpected Impact of a Letter to the Minister from One Ocean Hub Researchers

The CJN joined the consultation meeting on 29th April 2021 in Hamburg, where SSF leaders and other citizens stated their concerns, passionately described their dissatisfaction with the consultation process on the MPA management plan development to date. Photo Luke Kaplan
The CJN joined the consultation meeting on 29th April 2021 in Hamburg, where SSF leaders and other citizens stated their concerns, passionately described their dissatisfaction with the consultation process on the MPA management plan development to date. Photo Luke Kaplan

In South Africa a growing network of small-scale fisher leaders, environmental justice organisations and researchers from the One Ocean Hub, currently called the Coastal Justice Network (CJN), has been responding collaboratively over the past two years to a range of injustices – social, environmental, economic – experienced by coastal communities and environments. We have worked collaboratively to respond to the expected negative impacts of proposed offshore oil and gas expansion, lack of participation and other human rights issues around the creation and planning of marine protected areas, policy and management failures towards small-scale fisheries, water crises in coastal communities, COVID lockdown-related limitations to public participation, and others. Read the full article here