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Environmental Justice Foundation

For millions of people around the world, a degraded natural environment means hunger and brutal poverty that costs lives.

By providing film and advocacy training to partners in the global south EJF protects the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it by empowering local communities to investigate, expose and peacefully resolve abuses.

EJF campaigns internationally on the issues our grassroots partners work locally to solve including cotton production, pirate fishing, shrimp farming, pesticides, wildlife and climate refugees.

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Pirate fishing off West Africa

The Environmental Justice Foundation's (EJF) Executive Director, Steve Trent, kindly answered our questions about the problems caused by pirate fishing off the coast of West Africa.

Mr Trent said "Pirate fishing, driven by a growing unsustainable global demand for seafood, is now threatening the future of world fisheries. There are profound social, economic, and environmental impacts, not least the appalling exploitation and abuse crews aboard these vessels can face. It is simply not acceptable that illegal fishing vessels are able to operate outside the law."

Click here to see all the questions we asked about pirate fishing. 

 

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