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World Ocean Day: Greenpeace empathises with Kerala shipwreck disaster communities

Bhubaneswar, June 8 (UNI) Greenpeace India marked World Oceans Day 2025 with a celebration at Chandrabhaga Beach in Konark, Odisha, where a sand art featuring a majestic turtle took centrestage to highlight the critical role the ocean plays in sustaining biodiversity, regulating the climate, and supporting coastal communities.
The action also comes in solidarity with the Kerala population and the urgent need for transparency, cleanup, and accountability in response to the late shipwreck accident and its ongoing consequences.
This year, World Ocean Day precedes the opening of the United Ocean Conference, from June 9 to June 13 in France, where world leaders will convene to discuss their commitments for the protection of the global ocean.
In the meantime, the impacts of the recent MSC ELSA 3 shipwreck offshore Kerala (on May 25th) keep unfolding with fuel and hazardous cargo threats looming at sea, while broken containers of unknown cargo and insane amounts of plastic pellets have been washing ashore in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, — amid monsoon weather conditions impeding initial environmental assessment and clean-up initiatives.
Just 4 years after the X-Press Pearl disaster in Sri Lanka, the region’s marine life, unique coastal ecosystems, and fisher communities are facing yet another shipping disaster with lasting consequences, of which the scale remains to be fully understood.
“The sinking of the MSC ELSA-3 cargo ship is not an isolated incident. From Odisha to Kerala, our oceans are facing multiple challenges, including climate change, pollution, overfishing, and industrial activities. There is an urgent need for stronger community-led ocean governance to protect and sustainably manage ocean resources while addressing issues of ocean and climate justice,” said Greenpeace India.
“We are calling on local authorities and the MSC company to release the full cargo manifest of the MSC ELSA 3. The people in South India have the right to know and expect a detailed statement on the circumstances of the accident, as well as a comprehensive clean-up and compensation plan from MSC, which has not yet communicated two weeks after the shipwreck, said Amruta S Nair, Campaigner at Greenpeace India.
In Solidarity, Greenpeace deployed a documentation team in Kerala straight after the disaster — and last week the organisation has run several activities with ocean stakeholders, youth groups, and fisherfolks to convey the same message across the region: “One Ocean, Many Lives” in Khulna, Bangladesh; Galle and Colombo, in Sri Lanka; Odisha and Chennai, in India.
''We demand our leaders quickly ratify the global High Seas Treaty to protect 30 percent of our oceans as well as listen to the voice of small-scale fishers and the wisdom of coastal communities for the sustainable management of coastal resources and bottom-up profits to the local economies,” says Anita Perera, Campaigner at Greenpeace South Asia. UNI BD SSP
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