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    How a vampire squid inspired a Goldman prize-winning marine life champion

    European winner of the Goldman environment prize switched from journalism to activism to tackle the destructive practice of deep-sea bottom trawlingUnprecedented win for women in top global environment awards
    by Jonathan WattsGlobal environment editor Apr 23, 2018 3 minutes
    Claire Nouvian: ‘Deep-sea bottom trawling applies the most destructive fishing to the most fragile ecosystem.’ Photograph: Iris Brosch/Goldman Environmental Prize

    It was a vampire squid that inspired the European winner of this year’s Goldman environmental prize to successfully challenge the devastatingly unsustainable practice of bottom-trawling.

    More than a decade before Blue Planet, Claire Nouvian was researching this rare creature – a living fossil that is found 4,000m below the surface of Monterey Bay – for a French television company, when she first realised the extraordinary variety of life and colour on the deep ocean floor.

    The joy of that discovery was quickly

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