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The French government is being sued for failing to outlaw bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas.

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The French government has been formally asked by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) and Defense des Milieux Aquatiques (DMA) to address its noncompliance with EU and French regulations pertaining to bottom trawling, one of the most damaging fishing methods. These regulations are obviously broken by allowing this practice to continue in some of France's most biodiverse and endangered marine areas. The NGOs claim that this situation puts the long-term sustainability of the fisheries in jeopardy in addition to compromising the integrity of these places. Legal action will be taken in a French court if the government fails to appropriately respond to this formal request. The request specifically targets two maritime protected areas, Chausey and Bancs des Flandres, where bottom trawling is causing habitat destruction. A major factor in the decline of marine biodiversity is bottom trawling, which is the practice of dragging weighted nets across the seabed. It unintentionally captu

A Saudi woman rides 1,400 kilometers on a bicycle through Iceland.

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 A Saudi woman rides 1,400 kilometers on a bicycle through Iceland.                                                                                      Source arabnews.com RIYADH: Yasmine Idriss spoke with Arab News earlier this year right before departing on a once-in-a-lifetime bicycle tour around Iceland's Ring Road. She is now the first Arab woman to finish the arduous journey. She first believed that her nearly 1,400-kilometer journey would provide her with the opportunity to strategize her next professional step. She had no idea that cycling would lead to a far greater state of enlightenment. The entire journey she took—from fierce gusts to peaceful solitude—was documented for the 2024 documentary "Threshold.""In the movie, I talk extensively about what this meant to me and what the 'heroine's journey' entails. A woman experiencing the hero's journey is not the sole embodiment of the heroine's journey. It has a lot more surrender ingrained