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CONSERVATION and environment groups issued an “SOS For Sea Life” after condemning a government marine strategy as a “spectacular failure.”
More than 20 organisations reacted to a government report on its progress on pledges to keep the seas around Britain healthy and biologically diverse.
The government met four out of 15 targets on protecting sea life.
The groups said: “In addition to disastrous declines in marine biodiversity, letting our seas suffer has clear and dramatic implications for the key issue of climate change and the ramifications of global warming for us all, as our oceans absorb one third of our CO2 and 90 per cent of all heat produced by humans.”
Dr Lissa Batey, senior policy manager at The Wildlife Trusts, said the report was “a startling wake-up call, demonstrating that the losses we’ve observed on land are just as apparent in our seas.”
Chris Tuckett, of the Marine Conservation Society, and chairwoman of Wildlife and Countryside Link’s Marine Group, said: “Such a wholescale failure to meet our own targets for healthy oceans must be a wake-up call on behalf of our seas.”
