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Activists protest at UN Ocean Conference

STORY: A fishy protest is taking place

outside the UN Ocean conference

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

These climate activists

want to raise awareness

about overfishing

and plastic pollution

EXTINCTION REBELLION, ROB HIGGS:

“We need to end all industrial fishing, particularly boat controlling, but we need to end this now. The oceans are empty, we are catching less fish now that we were thirty years ago with all the advances and technologies. The seas are dying and we need an appropriate urgency that we are not seeing from our leaders.”

7000 people are expected

to attend the conference

It will assess the world's progress

in protecting marine life

EXTINCTION REBELLION, SOPHIE MILLER SAYING:

"Unless they do something, nothing is going to change, and everything is going to continue on this terrible trajectory to three degrees or more and a totally uninhabitable planet. I don’t think they are brave enough to do it."