Environmental Justice Foundation

04/10/2026

Today is !

The Pantanal is a territory of encounters and connections: migratory birds that cross continents, fish that travel dozens of kilometres along rivers, and mammals that move seasonally between uplands and floodplains following the flood pulse.

These species distribute energy and nutrients that fertilise land and waters. However, the complex ecological networks they’ve built are under threat.

The degradation of this vital wetland habitat has been accelerated by agribusiness, large-scale wildfires, infrastructure development, and much more. We must reverse the destruction before it's too late for these precious animals.

On behalf of these species, we are calling for the protection of the Pantanal they call home, and we’re working closely with Indigenous and local communities to ensure their future.

📸 Toucan, Jaguar, Capybaras, Marsh Deer, Giant Otter, Campo Flicker

02/10/2026

🚨 Public health announcement 🚨

We investigated chemicals in everyday plastic items and found something alarming: 92.8% pose a high-risk to human health.

These chemicals are in our food, homes and children's bodies, and almost none of them are controlled. Children are especially vulnerable, with exposure linked to attention disorders, cancer and lifelong reproductive harm.

This is not a problem people can solve through their own choices. The chemicals are present across thousands of ordinary products, most of them in the form of plastics, yet often unlabelled and invisible.

The responsibility to act sits with industry and governments. We are calling on governments to support a strong, legally-binding Global Plastics Treaty which cuts plastic production and controls the most dangerous chemicals at source.

Protecting people from toxic harm is not a technical detail to be bargained away; it is the whole point.

Learn more on our website, linked in the comments ⬇️

01/10/2026

Renforcer le rôle des médias dans la transparence et la gouvernance des pêches au Sénégal

Les 25, 26 et 27 septembre, EJF a réuni des journalistes pour une formation de deux jours sur le besoin et les atouts de la promotion de la transparence des pêches et le rôle des médias dans la réforme législative. Chercheurs, acteurs institutionnels, organisations de la société civile et acteurs de la pêche, dont les partenaires de EJF que sont l'ADEPA, la FiTi, la CONAPED et le REPES, ont partagé leur expertise sur la gouvernance et la transparence des pêches. Ceci dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre des projets “Promotion des principes de transparence et Renforcement de la surveillance participative au Sénégal” financés par Oceans 5 et Bloomberg W Africa.

Cet atelier a permis de doter 15 journalistes des connaissances et des outils pratiques nécessaires pour produire des reportages précis et fondés sur des faits sur la gouvernance des pêches et sur la réforme en cours du Code de la pêche maritime du Sénégal en rapport avec la mise en oeuvre des principes de transparence de charte mondiale pour la transparence des pêches.

M. Bassirou Diarra, Directeur-pays d'EJF pour l'Afrique francophone au Sénégal, a expliqué pourquoi les journalistes sont au cœur de ce processus de la promotion de transparence dans la gestion des pêcheries:

« Nous ne pouvons pas atteindre la transparence sans impliquer les journalistes, sans les préparer à plaider; à sensibiliser, et à investiguer afin que les principes de transparence soient mieux appliqués dans le Code de la pêche et dans la gestion des pêches à l'avenir. C'est pourquoi nous avons jugé nécessaire de réunir les journalistes pour renforcer leurs capacités sur les principes de transparence et sur la nécessité d'être transparents. »

Les participants ont exploré :

🔹 Les principes de la Charte mondiale pour la transparence des pêches
🔹 La gouvernance et la transparence des pêches : acteurs clés et modes d'action
🔹 La réforme en cours du Code de la pêche maritime du Sénégal
🔹 Le rôle des médias dans la promotion de l'accès à une information fiable et vérifiée
🔹 Les avancées dans la gouvernance des pêches au Sénégal : acteurs clés et modes d'action, présentées par le Directeur des Pêches maritimes
🔹 La production des reportages de qualité, fondé sur des données fiables et des analyses documentées
Au-delà des échanges, plusieurs pistes se dégagent pour renforcer la transparence des pêches au Sénégal :
🔹 Améliorer la production et la diffusion des données sur le secteur
🔹 Renforcer la participation des professionnels à la gouvernance des pêches
🔹 Développer les formations et mettre en place des outils favorisant la transparence
🔹 Explorer l'adhésion du Sénégal à la Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI)
🔹 Promouvoir des enquêtes et investigations (par les journalistes) sur les conditions de mise en oeuvre des principes de la Charte mondiale pour la transparence des pêches.

ADEPA WADAF Direction des Pêches Maritimes - DPM REPES

30/09/2026

Full rooms, one message: Europe’s ocean needs action, not more promises 🌊

On Tuesday, EJF co-organised two events at the European Parliament during Ocean Week, our first year as co-organisers. Thank you to everyone who joined us!

🔹 At the Blue NGOs’ high-level reception, hosted by MEP Christophe Clergeau, we called for an Ocean Act that turns the EU’s existing commitments into coherent, enforceable action for people and planet.

🔹 “Protection that pays” made the case that Marine Protected Areas pay off for nature, fishers and coastal communities when they are properly managed and protected, not only designated on paper. The EU Ocean Act, due by the end of 2026, must put the commitment to protect 30% of EU waters by 2030, with 10% strictly protected, into EU law.

Thank you to our hosts, the MEPs, ministers and European Commission representatives who spoke, and our fellow organisers Blue Marine Foundation, WWF, Oceana, Seas at Risk, Med Sea Alliance, BLOOM, ClientEarth, BirdLife Europe and Central Asia, Indyact Org and Surfrider Foundation Europe.

30/09/2026

Plastic has embedded itself in every aspect of our lives, with no signs of stopping.

The chemicals inside commonly used plastic items, from toys to coffee cups, are silently poisoning us.

We must end this threat to human health. It's time to reduce plastic production and consumption.

🗞️ Read more in CNN:

Nearly 93% of known plastic chemicals used to wrap food and make clothes, toys, and other common household and personal care products pose a high risk to human health, according to a new investigation provided exclusively to CNN. https://cnn.it/4z2Zt4d

30/09/2026

⚠️ The plastic we live with every day is quietly poisoning us ⚠️

The chemicals inside commonly used plastic products, from food containers and coffee cups to children's toys, threaten human health on a vast scale. Almost none are controlled.

Today, we’ve released our shocking research: 92.8% of the chemicals in everyday items we assessed are linked to cancer, infertility and heart disease.

More than half of these high-risk chemicals are not regulated at the international level or in the countries we reviewed. This is a public health emergency.

We’re making the case for a world where the products we use are safe by design.

Leaders must act: It’s time for a Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production and controls the most dangerous chemicals at source.

Everyone should feel safe knowing that the cup they drink from and the toy their child holds will not make them ill.

Uncover this new research in our new report and film, linked in the comments 🔗

29/09/2026

🔴 LIVE today: Europe’s bycatch crisis

More than a decade after the EU banned discards, fish are still being thrown back into the sea. The European Commission’s own study found discard rates had barely fallen, and in the Irish Sea nearly half of haddock catches were discarded between 2022 and 2024.

Our new report with Oceana shows the solutions already exist: selective fishing gear, digital monitoring and real transparency on what is caught and thrown back.

Join our Senior EU Advocacy Officer Sean Parramore at the Oceanographic Magazine Roundtable and be part of the conversation. It is a relaxed, live online discussion, and you can ask your questions throughout 💬

🗓️ Today, 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST
👉 Register to join: https://bit.ly/4hksaDX
📖 Read our report: https://bit.ly/4dDGWDm

27/09/2026

"We are these waters.”

The Pantanal is the largest tropical wetland on Earth: a vast, living landscape that plays a vital role in regulating the global climate and is home to thousands of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities.

But its rivers are disappearing. Over recent decades, the area of surface water bodies in the Pantanal has shrunk by 80.7%.

For Dona Dalva, Luany Mônaco, and countless other Pantaneiros, this is the death of a way of life built over generations, an identity born from and sustained by water.

Since 2023, EJF has been working alongside local and Indigenous communities to protect and restore the Pantanal, standing with those already on the frontlines, and pushing for stronger national and international legislation.

To protect the Pantanal, you must protect its rivers. And to protect its rivers, you must protect its people.

🔗 Learn more about our work in the Pantanal in the comments.

26/09/2026

🌊 Ocean Week starts in two days, and the EJF team will be in Brussels!

Europe already has strong rules to protect its ocean. What matters now is delivering them: enforcing fisheries rules, ending illegal fishing and protecting the people who work at sea, backed by an ambitious Ocean Act.

This year, for the first time, EJF is co-organising events at Ocean Week:

📍 Tue 29/09: “Protection that pays”, on the socio-economic case for Marine Protected Areas (co-organised by EJF)
📍 Tue 29/09: the Blue NGOs’ Ocean Act reception at the European Parliament (co-organised by EJF)

Check the Ocean Week programme 👉 https://www.oceanweek.eu/week-schedule

Our CEO Steve Trent, and EU Team members, Julien Daudu, Marie Colombier, Viola Carboni, Matthew Gréant and Sean Parramore, will also meet with partners and decision-makers across Brussels all week. Get in touch!

Image: Seas at Risk

25/09/2026

📢 Call for proposals: Grants to strengthen artisanal fisheries co-management associations in the Gambia

We are inviting co-management associations or other local community-based, non-profit organisations in The Gambia to apply for a grant under the EU-funded project, ‘A Global Toolkit for Participatory Fisheries Governance'.

This project, focusing on 15 countries in the Global South, seeks to strengthen the participation of small-scale fishing communities in the management of the fisheries resources upon which their livelihoods and food security rely.

Grants are intended to enable co-management associations (CMAs) representing the interests of small-scale fishers in The Gambia to adopt the VGGT principles into their approaches to managing their local fisheries.

Submit your proposals by 30 September 2026. Find more details on our website: