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Germany UN New York @new-york-un.diplo.de · 30/03/2026

🌊🚀 Kicking off the Living High Seas partnership in New York! Working with partner countries, the initiative advances high seas marine protected areas and turns the High Sea Treaty #BBNJ into action. @umweltministerium.de, @minderoo.bsky.social @giz.de, @gobisecretariat.bsky.social and #IUCN

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) @giz.de · 30/03/2026

🌊 From negotiation to action: Living High Seas launches in New York putting the #BBNJ agreement into practice. Together with @gobisecretariat.bsky.social and IUCN, marine protected areas take shape. @umweltministerium.de and @minderoo.bsky.social make it happen. Every step counts now. ➡️ t1p.de/y175x

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Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative @gobisecretariat.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Saddened to hear of Kristina Gjerde's passing. She was a founding proponent and inspiration for GOBI, pushing relentlessly for sound science to better understand and protect deep-sea ecosystems. A key member of our inner circle, a true professional and friend - Kristina will be very much missed.

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Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative @gobisecretariat.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

GOBI's has a new Coordinator! After 13 years leading GOBI’s efforts, David Johnson is handing over the reins to Dominic Pattinson, who joins us fresh from the OSPAR Commission. We are thrilled to have him on board and look forward to an exciting new chapter in GOBI's adventures. Welcome, Dominic!

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Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative @gobisecretariat.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The second #BBNJ #PrepCom meeting is coming up fast and we're delighted to say we have a side event in the programme with co-organisers BMUKN and IUCN WCPA + other partners. Join us 13:15-14:30 on Thurs 21 August 2025 in UNHQ CR1 @umweltministerium.de @iucnwcpa.bsky.social @imarest.bsky.social

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Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative @gobisecretariat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Congrats to @lilybentley.bsky.social, @marinebiogeo.bsky.social and co-authors on this important new paper. MiCO continues to go from strength to strength - very proud to be a supporter!

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Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative @gobisecretariat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

After a temporary break from publication last year, the GOBI newsletter is back - packed with news from around the GOBI community and beyond. Happy reading! gobi.org/the-gobi-new...

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Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative @gobisecretariat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Big thanks to our participants at last week's joint GOBI-IUCN HSSG workshop on 'Building ecologically representative and well-connected High Seas ABMT networks' - 3 days of intense discussions, scientific debate and enthusiastic brainstorming. Read all about it here 👉 tinyurl.com/yczxadkw

Participants at the GOBI-HSSG workshop at Duke University, March 2025

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