Ian Urbina
Founder at The Outlaw Ocean Project
I run a journalism non-profit called The Outlaw Ocean Project, which produces stories for venues globally about environmental and human rights abuses at sea.
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1 month ago |
thejournal.ie | Ian Urbina |Maya Martin |Joe Galvin |Susan Narelle Ryan
THE MOST IMPORTANT place on earth that virtually no one has ever heard of is called the Saya de Malha Bank. Among the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks, this high-seas patch of ocean covers an area the size of Switzerland. More than 320 km from land, the submerged bank is situated in the Indian Ocean between Mauritius and Seychelles.
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1 month ago |
clarin.com | Ian Urbina
El comportamiento ilegal o no regulado de esta flota fue bien documentado, pero al menos 30 de ellos llegaron al Banco Saya de Malha después de huir de los operativos de control de violaciones pesqueras en Indonesia y Papúa Nueva Guinea, según un informe de Greenpeace. Al menos 24 de los barcos habían cometido violaciones pesqueras, la mayoría debido a la falta de licencias válidas para los equipos de pesca.
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1 month ago |
maritime-executive.com | Ian Urbina
Vast and sometimes brutal, the high seas are also a place of aspiration, reinvention and an escape from rules. This is why the oceans have long been a magnet for libertarians hoping to flee governments, taxes and other people by creating their own sovereign micronations in international waters. The Saya de Malha Bank has been especially attractive for such ambitions.
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1 month ago |
clarin.com | Ian Urbina
Durante la última década, la industria minera ha argumentado que el fondo oceánico es una frontera esencial para los metales preciosos necesarios en las baterías utilizadas en celulares y computadoras portátiles.
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1 month ago |
publico.pt | Ian Urbina
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Exciting development: @Digiday, which is a trade magazine focussed on the media profession announced this week that The Outlaw Ocean Project has won the “Media Company of the Year” award for 2025. Really exciting news and testament to amazing work done by the OO team.
Topic that rarely gets covered. A movie well worth seeing. Fatal Watch is a feature-length doc film about the mysterious disappearance of several fishery observers and the dangers of this obscure but vital type of work. Monday screening in DC and stage appearance with the https://t.co/dNIVhyLTOR
Jelani Cobb, the Dean of the Columbia University Journalism School, was interviewed today on NPR about the state of broadcast journalism and this year’s winners of the DuPont Award. He cited 3 winners to discuss more fully, among them the Outlaw Ocean Project’s investigation. https://t.co/QpxagmDegr
