Stunning Body Painting To Protect The Oceans From Destructive Trawling

At a series of live events throughout Europe, artists and activists have come together to create stunning body art to draw attention to the destruction caused by deep-sea bottom trawling and to ask European governments to support a ban of what scientists have called “the most destructive fishing gear in history”.

You can sign the UK petition here and the EU petition here

For more info check out this great comic.

The video was produced by Conservation Media Group, below are images of the finished body art.

Paris, France

Paragorgia, Bubblegum Coral. Make up by Maeva Coree, Paris, France. 

Photograph: Alexandre Faraci/Bloom Assocation/LUSH

Coryphaenoides rupestris, Roundnose Grenadier. Make up by Serena Fiammenghi,  Milan, Italy

Coryphaenoides rupestris, Roundnose Grenadier. Make up by Serena Fiammenghi, Milan, Italy.

Photograph: Alessio Proietti/Bloom Assocation/LUSH

Helsinki, Finland

Promachocrinus kerguenlensis, Sea Lily. Make up by Riina Laine, Helsinki, Finland. 

Photograph: Vanessa Forsten/Bloom Assocation/LUSH

Glasgow, Scotland

Histioteuthis Heteropsis, Jewel squid. Make up by Lorna Strachan, Glasgow, Scotland. 

Photograph: Felicity Millward/Bloom Assocation/LUSH

Stauroteuthis syrtensis, Dumbo Octopus. Make up by Léonie Gené, Hamburg, Germany

Stauroteuthis syrtensis, Dumbo Octopus. Make up by Léonie Gené, Hamburg, Germany.

Photograph: Janine Gallert/Bloom Assocation/LUSH

Scaleless black dragonfish. Make up by Jasmina Bator, Zagreb, Croatia.

Melanostomias tentaculatus, Scaleless Black Dragonfish.

Make up by Jasmina Bator, Zagreb, Croatia. Photograph: Vanja Šolin/Bloom Assocation/LUSH

Aglantha sp., deepsea jellyfish, Madrid, Spain

Aglantha sp., Deepsea Jellyfish, Madrid, Spain. 

Photograph: Silvia Quiros/Bloom Assocation/LUSH

Histioteuthis Heteropsis, jewel squid. Make up by Carolyn Roper, London

Histioteuthis Heteropsis, Jewel Squid. Make up by Carolyn Roper, London. 

Photograph: Richard Skyns/Bloom Association/LUSH

Hexactinellidé,  deep sea sponge. Make up by Nadja Hluchovsky, Vienna, Austria

Hexactinellidé, Deepsea Sponge. Make up by Nadja Hluchovsky, Vienna, Austria. 

Photograph: Anja Lampert/Bloom Association/LUSH

Paraeuchaeta barbata, Predatory Copepod. Make up by Anneke van der Does, Amsterdam

Paraeuchaeta barbata, Predatory Copepod. Make up by Anneke van der Does, Amsterdam.

Photograph: Alex de Groot/Bloom Assocation/LUSH

Teuthowenia pellucida, Googly-eyed Glass Squid. Make up by Emilia Simova, Paris, France

Teuthowenia pellucida, Googly-eyed Glass Squid. Make up by Emilia Simova, Paris, France.

Photograph: Claire Nouvian/Bloom Association/LUSH

Voragonema pedunculata, Deepsea Jellyfish. Make up by Rita Pico, Lisbon, Portugal

Voragonema pedunculata, Deepsea Jellyfish. Make up by Rita Pico, Lisbon, Portugal. 

Photograph: José Santos/Bloom Association/LUSH

Anoplogaster cornuta, Fangtooth. Make up by Helena Jordana Skuhrovcov, Prague, Czech Republic

Anoplogaster cornuta, Fangtooth. Make up by Helena Jordana Skuhrovcov, Prague, Czech Republic. 

Photograph: Helena Dufková/Bloom Association/LUSH

Anoplogaster cornuta, Fangtooth. Make up by Helena Jordana Skuhrovcov, Prague, Czech Republic

Anoplogaster cornuta, Fangtooth. Make up by Helena Jordana Skuhrovcov, Prague, Czech Republic. 

Photograph: Helena Dufková/Bloom Assocation/LUSH

Deep sea body painting in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Deep sea body painting in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Photograph: Oscar Mattsson /Bloom Association/LUSH

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