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Belinda Bramley
Environmentalist. Ocean solutions consultant.
Belinda Bramley is a blue economy consultant and environmental professional with extensive experience in the non-profit sector. She currently serves as a Trustee for the Postcode Planet, Earth and Green Trusts at People's Postcode Lottery, a position she has held since May 2022.345
Professional Background
Belinda is a chartered accountant with over 20 years of experience in the non-profit sphere.2 Her career includes:
- Independent consultant in the blue economy
- Associate for NLA International Ltd, a blue economy solutions consultancy
- Advisor for Blue Green Future LLC, focusing on natural capital valuation and nature-services markets
- Former Head of Impact for Nekton Foundation
- Former CFO for Global Canopy and Earthwatch Europe
- Early career in the City of London, leading expert teams in finance and treasury support for investment banking activities
Expertise and Interests
Belinda is known for her:
- Passion for environmentalism and nature-based solutions
- Focus on SDG14: Life Below Water
- Expertise in building enabling conditions for marine protection and sustainable blue economy initiatives
- Skills in research, analysis, knowledge synthesis, and connecting people and initiatives
- Interest in convening and developing holistic solutions for equitable, sustainable blue economy projects
Roles and Affiliations
In addition to her trustee position, Belinda is involved with several organizations:
- Independent consultant working on SDG14: Life Below Water
- Associate of NLA International
- Advisor to Blue Green Future LLC
- Former Treasurer of Global Canopy
Education and Qualifications
Belinda is an environmentally focused chartered accountant1, indicating a strong background in finance combined with her environmental expertise.
Belinda Bramley's diverse experience in finance, environmental conservation, and the blue economy makes her a valuable asset to the Postcode Planet, Earth and Green Trusts, where she contributes her expertise to support environmental initiatives and sustainable development.
Highlights
What could a regenerated ocean look like? Re-imagining abundance means looking back many generations and acknowledging how degraded our seas have become.
A study of historical records for the Irish Sea coast of #wales going back 800 years charts the lost riches from our seas, showing a transition from herring and a range of demersal fish in the 18th and early 20th century, to almost exclusive reliance on invertebrates by the 21st century.
"In stark contrast to their present-day absence, significant herring fisheries were present around the study area from at least the 13th century to the mid-20th century. In the 1700s, one large catch on a single night at Aberystwyth was quantified as 1.36 million herrings (≥136 tonnes), and vast shoals and great abundance were reported across north Wales. In the 19th century, similarly productive fisheries were very often reported, and gluts of herring were sometimes used as manure on fields. Consistent with these are accounts up to the mid-20th century of shoals ‘up to seven miles in length’ and large catches nearly capsizing boats. This seasonal abundance of small fish prey supported a wealth of diverse vertebrate predators. Herring was pursued by ‘thousands of #seabirds’, #sharks, large teleost fish and marine mammals, including ‘great shoals of #dolphins and porpoises’.
Turbot attained a large maximum size: on the Anglesey coast they were ‘3 foot long’, and ‘…turbots of a large size… found in our neighborhood…brought to me… weighed twenty-two pounds [10 kg]’. Around the mid-19th century, Caernarfon and Cardigan bays respectively boasted ‘…a great quantity of very beautiful soles, and turbot, and other fish of that sort’ and ‘…an immense quantity of sole, and turbot…’. Now there are no significant targeted fisheries for flatfishes around north Wales; for example, annual turbot landings by inshore vessels for the whole area averaged <40 kg per year for 2016–2020.
The shifting baselines concept should be the starting point for discussions about future preferred states and policies for moving towards this, rather than for looking back to a previous ‘healthy baseline’. Failing to recognise the relevance of historical loss to fishes and #fisheries and accept the status quo of recent years, may increase the risk of further degradation and #ecosystem management failures. Achieving resilient, stable, multi-species and sustainable fisheries may be far more likely where food webs and #ecosystems are more intact and closer to pre-exploitation baselines and more distant from today's degraded status."
https://lnkd.in/ewyFVa4k
Overfishing is much worse than we thought, diminishing entire marine ecosystems and all the species that rely on healthy fish stocks.
In addition to policymakers routinely ignoring scientific catch limits, a new analysis finds that the limits themselves are flawed due to overly complex models, a lack of hindcasting and a lack of precaution.
https://lnkd.in/e5RMieXS.
It is depressing to discover that not only are we over-estimating overall #marineprotection levels towards #30by30, but we are also systematically over-estimating #fish abundance on a grand scale.
https://lnkd.in/eNcWZjx9
"The principles of ecosystem-based #sustainable fishing are not difficult:
🐟 take out less than is regrown; 🐠 let #fish grow and reproduce before capture; 🐬 use fishing gear with low impact on the environment and on other species; 🦐 provide refuge or no-take areas as reservoirs of genetic diversity; and 🐳 maintain functional food webs by reduced fishing of forage species, such as anchovies, sardines, herring, or krill.
Four of these five principles can be applied without knowledge of last biomass."
https://lnkd.in/eiPfNDjW
#timetoact #ocean action is #climateaction #blueplanet
Images: African penguins in Cape Town, Harry Cunningham, Pexels Grey dolphin off Tenerife, Guillaume Hankenne, Pexels Sea fans and shark in Belize, Fabrice Dudenhofer, Ocean Image Bank
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