In March 2021, the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior set sail to a place called the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean to stop an emerging ocean threat – deep sea mining – before it begins.
Activists onboard the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior are today taking action hundreds of miles out to sea, against deep sea mining company DeepGreen.
Another protest took place in American port San Diego, where activists confronting a ship chartered by Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR), a mining company from Belgium. This ship is carrying a pre-prototype mining robot for running tests at depths of over 4,000m on the seabed.
Deep sea mining companies are rapidly advancing their exploration activities and developing technologies for commercial mining of the ocean, with the Pacific being seen as the frontier for this industry.
The deep ocean is one of Earth’s least understood and least explored ecosystems, which is home to significant biodiversity, and also acts as a vital carbon sink.
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Clarion Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean, 6th April 2021Â â Activists onboard the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior are today taking action hundreds of miles out to sea, against deep sea mining company DeepGreen.
Deep sea mining companies are rapidly advancing their exploration activities and developing technologies for commercial mining of the ocean, with the Pacific being seen as the frontier for this industry.
The deep ocean is one of Earthâs least understood and least explored ecosystems, which is home to significant biodiversity, and also acts as a vital carbon sink.
Jessica Desmond, oceans campaigner at Greenpeace Aotearoa, says:
âScientists have repeatedly warned that deep sea mining would have terrible consequences for ocean ecosystems we barely understand, but giant machines are already being lined up for experimental mining of the Pacific Ocean seabed.