Thursday March 12, 2026
Oceanographic —
It was the sentiment that addressed the elephant in what must feel like every room right now, when Jelta Wong, the Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources of Papua New Guinea declared at the World Ocean Summit last week that it is “easier to pinpoint someone in Tehran and bomb them” than it is to monitor our own ocean.
It was part of a sweep of statements made in solidarity by global ocean leaders at the Montreal conference, which warned that ambitious marine protection targets will only fail should they not receive stronger enforcement and large-scale financing.