Pyramids of Life: Improving the health of oceans Festival of Ideas 2023

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This event is part of York Festival of Ideas 2023

Our planet’s natural resources face unsustainable demands, and there is evidence that current management approaches are failing to move resource use towards a sustainable future. This failure is particularly acute in marine ecosystems, where about 95% of fisheries are fully or over-exploited.

Join our panel of experts to hear all about the groundbreaking ‘Pyramids of Life’ project that seeks to better understand how we can work sustainably to manage our oceans, and how a change in fishing and consumer behaviour could improve stocks and promote biodiversity.

Find out how the team is re-imagining the fishing industry to be more in balance with natural marine ecosystems, and how consumers’ rediscovery of a taste for undervalued species could help rebuild and safeguard the health of our oceans and fishing communities.

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