Email: ksack@pewtrusts.org
Address:
Washington, D.C.
Karen Sack joined the Pew Environment Group in September 2009 as director of International Ocean Conservation. She manages the international marine program which includes projects that focus on ending overfishing in Europe, conserving sharks, tunas, deep-sea life, establishing large-scale marine reserves, and combating illegal fishing.
Before joining Pew, Sack was director of Greenpeace International’s Political Unit, and before that, head of their International Oceans Campaign. In 2004, Sack was the first person from a nongovernmental organization to speak at a regular session of the United Nations General Assembly, representing the concerns of over 60 organizations from around the world over the plight of our oceans. She has led and participated in NGO delegations to the International Whaling Commission, Antarctic Treaty meetings, U.N. Conventions on Biological Diversity and Climate Change, FAO Committee on Fisheries, U.N. Oceans and the Law of the Sea meetings and the UN Fish Stocks Agreement.
Sack holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She also holds a master’s degree in international environmental law from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and a master’s degree in international political economy from the American University in Washington, D.C.
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The deep sea is an extreme and unforgiving environment, so it may be surprising to learn that it is home to an estimated 10 million distinct species, rivaling the biodiversity of some of the world’s richest tropical rainforests.
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(Washington Post) The world’s deep-sea catch is steadily declining, and the high vulnerability of these fish populations and diverse marine ecosystems is well documented. Last year, officials from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea declared that in the Northeast Atlantic, 100 percent of all targeted deep-sea species have been fished “outside safe biological limits.” Yet the fishing continues, via trawlers dragging enormous weighted nets that, in a single pass, scrape clean the ocean floor.
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