World Ocean Day 2012 ! Make The Water A Better Place for The Children of The World !! June 8th, 2012

[MJ TinkerBell]

MJJC Legacy Project

ONE WORLD ONE OCEAN ​

Happy World Oceans Day !

A Sea Lion Staring Contest
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Welcome to the international community’s online resource for World Oceans Day—our planet’s biggest celebration of the ocean, held every June 8th. This year, we encourage you to reach out to young people in your community and help inspire them for the 2012 theme Youth: the Next Wave for Change. Explore this site for ideas, resources, and information about how you can get involved.

WHY THE OCEAN?

The ocean is Earth's life support 50 to 70 percent of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean. That's more than every one of the world's rainforests combined.

The ocean is the #1 source of protein for more than a billion people. Sea life provides one fifth of the average person's animal protein intake.

The ocean regulates our climate, absorbs carbon dioxide, holds 97% of Earth's water, and supports the greatest abundance of life on our planet.

More than 60% of the world's population lives on or near the coast. The ocean provides a livelihood, recreation, beauty, wonder, and untapped scientific discovery, leading to new medications, foods, and advanced technologies.
Everyone, everywhere depends on a healthy sea.

But the ocean is in trouble 90% of the big fish are gone. Tuna, swordfish, halibut, cod, and flounder populations have been devastated by overfishing. Many of the fish caught today never even have the chance to reproduce.

The average size of the remaining big fish has been cut in half or less in the last 50 years. The average weight of a swordfish caught today is 90 lbs., down from 266 lbs. in 1960.

Discarded plastic bags and other trash have formed a toxic "plastic soup" that is gathering in five massive ocean gyres around the world. As the plastic breaks down, it is eaten by sea animals, birds, and fish, causing illness and death. It eventually enters our diets, too.

There are a reported 405 ocean "dead zones" — areas where there is little to no oxygen due to fertilizer run-off and nitrogen pollution. Dead zones are doubling every ten years.

Our oceans account for 71% of the planet, but less than 2% of our oceans are protected. We have protections in place for nearly 12% of all land (through areas like national parks).

What happens if we do nothing?

Many of the most popular seafood populations could be wiped out within 40 years.
Unless we change our rate of consumption, we're within a century — possibly even less — of a world where jellyfish are the only wild seafood option left.

The ocean is at a tipping point. Oceanographer Sylvia Earle says human actions over the next 10 years will determine the state of the ocean for the next 10,000 years.

Celebrate World Oceans Day !!
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World Oceans Day - Celebrate Marine Parks
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Ocean Heroes: Sneak Peek - Cousteau, Earle, Savage, & More!
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One World One Ocean's new animated video celebrates the wonders of the ocean with stunning facts about our connection to the planet's lifeline. The video takes Mitzi and Ferdie from their home in Yosemite to places around the world before returning home to tell their friends about the adventure and all they've learned
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Polar Bear Handstand! [HD]
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Laziest Walrus Colony Ever! [HD]
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Laziest Polar Bear Ever! [HD]
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Howard Hall Filming Great White Sharks - Ocean Heroes
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TAKE ACTION

OUR GOALS FOR A BETTER OCEAN HELP US MAKE THEM A REALITY

Weekly Dive: Plastic Pollution & Seagrass Surprise
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Weekly Dive: Penguins From Space & Baby Whale Boom
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Weekly Dive: Whale Rescue & Whole Foods Sustainability
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Dolphins Celebrate World Oceans Day!
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1. EAT SEAFOOD SUSTAINABLY
2. REDUCE PLASTIC POLLUTION
3. INCREASE OCEAN PROTECTED AREAS

SIGN UP TO PROTECT OUR OCEANS

Show your support for restoring the oceans by signing up for updates from One World One Ocean.

Together, we can save our oceans by increasing the number of ocean protected areas, changing the way people eat seafood, and reducing the use of plastics.
http://www.oneworldoneocean.org/page/s/signup

The Facebook Events

CelebrateOceans - Send a lei on Facebook for World Oceans Day! Another 1,000 and Maui Jim will donate $10,000 for World Oceans Day
https://www.facebook.com/WorldOceansDay

The Twitter Events:

#WorldOceansDay ow.ly/bs5Cy
CelebrateOceans thank you! RT @nccenviron: We pledge to recycle! #WorldOceansDay @CelebrateOceans pic.twitter.com/n7MFtOtg

The Sources:

http://www.oneworldoneocean.org/

http://worldoceansday.org/

The David Susuki Ocean Action Website
http://action.davidsuzuki.org/world_oceans_day

Sincerely your,
MJJC
Legacy
Team

 

[MJ TinkerBell]

WHALE WATCHING TV

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Welcome to Whale Watching TV! June 8, 2012

WHALE WATCHING TV IS The ONLY place in the world where you can, daily, whale watch for HUGE DOLPHIN HERDS, and BLUE WHALES, the largest animal that ever lived, swimming, LIVE, out on the OPEN OCEAN, without ever leaving your home.

This is THE premier whale watching and dolphin watching website in the world! A virtual "whale watching" classroom on the water taught by whale watching experts. Produced by a whale watching captain and award winning film maker David Anderson.

ATTENTION: We will soon be adding a new live feed from San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja California where the gray whales go to mate and have their calves - people often can actually pet the whales there. We are very excited about this and look forward to working with Baja Expeditions on this once in a lifetime live feed from Baja.

Currently, we are Streaming live from what may be the worlds most hi- tech commercial whale watching boat, Manute'a - and broadcasting live from the open ocean from one of the best year round whale watching and dolphin watching destinations in the world, Dana Point California.

Twitter / WhaleWatchingTV
Twitter updates from Whale Watching TV / WhaleWatchingTV.
WhaleWatchingTV: I posted 9 photos on Facebook in the album "Dolphin and Whale Safari Sightings, June 6" http://t.co/0ZHiH1Fk
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Dana Point, CA Weather from Weather Underground
Current Conditions : 59.0F, Mostly Cloudy - 11:11 PM PDT Jun. 8
published on Fri, 8 Jun 2012 23:11:00 PDT
Temperature: 59.0°F | Humidity: 89% | Pressure: 29.86in (Rising) | Conditions: Mostly Cloudy |...

Whale Watching TV is brought to you through the efforts of the entire Capt. Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari Staff.

WHAT WE SEE WHALE WATCHING - AND WHEN:

May through December - Blue Whales, the largest animal that ever lived.

December through April - Gray Whales.

Year round - Long Beaked and Short Beaked Common Dolphins, Bottlenose Dolphins, Rissos Dolphins, and Pacific Whitesided Dolphins. Also Fin Whales and Minke Whales, Sea Lions, Elephant Seals and Harbor Seals .

Occasionally - Killer Whales, Humpback Whales, False Killer Whales, Dalls Porpoise, Mola Mola and many others.

You can SEE and HEAR Dolphins and Whales UNDERWATER as well!!!

Cameras are onboard, during the whale watching excursions, including an UNDERWATER CAM and a HYDROPHONE and a handheld camera with a zoom that is used for viewing the whales up close.

Not only will you learn all about these incredible dolphins and whales and other sea life during a real life whale watch, but you will learn what it is like to work aboard a commercial whale watching boat and find out if it really is the dream job it seems.

You never know what you'll hear or see, on Whale Watching TV


The Source:
http://www.whalewatchingtv.com/

 

[MJ TinkerBell]

LIVE WEB CAM OF THE OCEANS Of The WORLD Podcast & Videos

Port of Galilee Beach
http://www.liladelman.com/galilee-beach-web-cam.aspx

Portonovo, Ancona, Italy
http://www.conero.it/it/conero/webcam

Le Méridien Beach Plaza, Monte Carlo
http://www.lemeridienbeachplazaview.com/

Koh Samui, Thailand
http://www.samuicam.com/index.html

Cape Cod Canal Webcam
http://www.telecamsystems.com/capecodcanal/

Point Pleasant Beach NJ Cam
http://www.nj.com/shore/pointpleasantcam/


Saybrook Point NY Cam
http://www.noreast.com/WebCam/SmithPoint/ViewImage.cfm?

http://www.liladelman.com/beachcam.asp

Florida's Surf Cam Sites
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/boardheads2/surfcams.html

Monterey Bay Aquarium
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/cam_menu.aspx

Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii
http://live.waikikitimes.com/

Venice Beach Cam
http://www.westland.net/beachcam/

Ocean Beach Webcam
http://obhotel.com/webcam

Georgia Aquarium
http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/explore-the-aquarium/interact/web-cams.aspx

Bay Bridge Cam
http://www.mediamaine.org/webcam/bayridge/

Oceanfront Webcam - Myrtle Beach, SC
http://www.oceanfrontcam.com/

:wild::woohoo:Please add YOUR Photos of the Ocean :bow::heart::wild:

 

[MJ TinkerBell]

The Jellies Experience



The Monterey Bay Videos:

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/storage/html5Videos/p_spotted.mp4

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/storage/html5Videos/p_comb.mp4

The Monterey Bay Jellies Exihibit:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/jellies.aspx#

 

[MJ TinkerBell]

Welcome to Project SeaCAMEL


Project SeaCAMEL's last two live webcast coral reef science classes explore "Physical Oceanography" and "Aquarius as an Artificial Reef." Come dive with the aquanauts from the Living Oceans Foundation in the Aquarius underwater habitat in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary!


Project SeaCAMEL's online underwater classes and learn about fascinating topics in marine science !!
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An exciting Day #1 at Project SeaCAMEL! We broadcast and webcast two live coral reef science classes on "Living and Working Underwater at Aquarius" and "The Reef at Night" with aquanauts Dr. Mark Patterson of the Virginia Institute of Technology, Phil Renaud, Executive Director of the Living Oceans Foundation and Annelise Hagan, Living Ocean Foundation's Chief Project Scientist.

Project SeaCAMEL's - Online Underwater DAY #1
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Today Project SeaCAMEL's two live broadcast and webcast coral reef science classes focused on "Reefs Under Siege," and "Sponges: The Reef's Filters."

Project SeaCAMEL's- Online Underwater DAY # 2
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Project SeaCAMEL's last two live webcast coral reef science classes explore "Physical Oceanography" and "Aquarius as an Artificial Reef." Come dive with the aquanauts from the Living Oceans Foundation in the Aquarius underwater habitat in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary!

Project SeaCAMEL- Online Underwater DAY #3
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View all six full-length Project SeaCAMEL's online underwater classes and learn about fascinating topics in marine science here:
Live Online:
www.seacamel.livingoceansfoundation.org
www.uncw.edu/aquarius

 

[MJ TinkerBell]

The Ocean Songs

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Bahamas Beaches
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Virgin Islands Beaches
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Floridas Beaches
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Californias Beaches
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Tropical Beaches
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The water and it's inhabitants is beautiful as well as important.

peices of information about the oceans of earth, and the organisms that it supports.

About 80% of sharks are not a threat to humans
Because that 80% of sharks are less then 1.8 meters long, and are classified as not a threat.

About 50-70 people are wounded by sharks per year, although about 10 die per year

Which is no where close to how many sharks we kill per year, we kill up to 100 million sharks, per year. Or I could exaggerate that number by writing it in numbers, 100,000,000 sharks are killed per year by humans, compared to the 10 humans killed per year.

50-80% of all life found on earth is in the ocean
Scientists know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of the ocean, and Humans have only explored 10% of the entire ocean, approximately. Because sending a person to the very bottom of ocean would create about 11,000 tons of pressure (from water). And once again to create an image of how much that is, it is like a person trying to support the weight of 50 jumbo jets.
Almost 99% of all living space are found in the oceans
Most of the volcanic activity on earth is found in the oceans, 90%
Earth has the exact amount of water as it did 100 million years ago
The average depth of the ocean is about 3,795 meters deep. The equivalent or 9 empire state buildings stacked on top of each other.
A swordfish can swim as fast as a cheetah can run
Blue are the largest animals in the entire world, yes they are bigger then dinosaurs

In average they weigh to be about 120 tons, 80 feet long or 25 meters. Unfortunately females are bigger then the males, sorry guys although I’m a guy. The largest Blue whale ever found was a female, weighing in at 174 tons and 94 feet long. The heart was as big as a Volkswagen bug car.

Sound travels nearly 5 time faster in water then it does in the air. In water sound will travel at 1,435 m/sec.
Porcupines can float
The Pacific Ocean contains about 1/3 of the entire surface area of the planet. And contains almost 25,000 islands.
Do not ever drink seawater, it doesn’t just contain salt, which will dehydrate you faster then you were before, but lots of bacteria and plankton. Just 1 mouthful of seawater contains millions of bacterial cells, and hundreds of thousands of phytoplankton and tens of thousands of zooplankton.
Fish provide the majority of all the protein we humans consume, however many fisheries are overfished
Many deep-sea fish have the amazing ability to change their sex, since they have both male and female reproductive organs
Many deep-sea animals cannot survive without the water’s pressure. So it makes studying deep sea creatures very difficult even if we are able to capture one, which has been done. But the Creature died soon after its discovery.
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef and living organism on the planet. It is over 2,300 kilometers in length, larger then Great Britain. So large that it could be seen from space! Supporting well over 2 thousand species of fish, and many others. The reef is made of over 400 species of coral. It is not really one big structure though, it is broken up into nearly 3000 little reefs just jumbled together. As well as a little bonus for the people who live close to it, reefs can help stop waves, which would preserve the beaches.

 

[MJ TinkerBell]

ONE WORLD ONE OCEAN

Thinking Big, Acting Small, and 5 Other Things I Do To Save Water
Posted by Jay Famiglietti of University of California, Irvine in Water Currents on July 8, 2012
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A few years ago, my wife Cathy suggested that I consider incorporating advice in my climate change lectures on the little things that we can do each day to combat global warming. Although I tend to deliver most of my doom and gloom messages with a smile, the scope of the environmental issues that we face typically leaves students feeling pretty overwhelmed. And me too by the way.

Cathy was spot on. Once I started incorporating these discussions into my classes, students became energized. They felt empowered. They wanted to learn more. They were ready to act! Go get&#8217;em young people! You&#8217;re our great hope for the future!

Fast forward to 2012. My research has become increasingly more focused on defining the global water crisis. I&#8217;m delivering countless academic and public lectures on what we&#8217;re finding. And I&#8217;ve done numerous Q & A sessions after screenings of the water documentary Last Call at the Oasis.

What&#8217;s the most frequent question that I&#8217;m asked? Just as my wife had anticipated, nearly everyone wants to know what little things they can do at home or at work to have an impact on this huge problem.

That and how we got Jack Black to appear in Last Call.

Last Call at the Oasis - Official Trailer
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Well, here&#8217;s my take on it. I&#8217;ll start with an important disclaimer that probably applies to all of us, so it really frames my primary recommendation well.

I&#8217;m not perfect. My family is not perfect. We should convert our yard to native landscaping, but we haven&#8217;t yet. It&#8217;s tough to break the bottled water habit with my kids, and their showers are too long. Like everyone else, we are creatures of habit.

Hence my core recommendation. Think big. Act small.

Thinking big. By thinking big, I mean that in order to make a dent in your home water use, you should focus on the biggest offenders. For example, if you were working on your home budget, you would concentrate on your biggest expenditures and make cuts there &#8211; dining out too frequently for example, rather than changing to a generic brand of peanut butter.

For many homeowners, watering the yard accounts for over 50% of domestic water use. Home landscape irrigation is likely the number one low hanging fruit for saving water. You can always use less, and you&#8217;ll save money. If you don&#8217;t have a weather-smart sprinkler system (we don&#8217;t), keep an eye on the sky, and always turn off the sprinklers if rain is in the forecast. If you can afford to make the change, consider converting to a native landscape.

After the yard, the biggest uses of water in the home are toilets, laundry, showers, faucets, and leaks. High efficiency (low flow) plumbing fixtures and appliances (front-loading washers for example) should be staples of the modern home when affordable.

Acting small. It&#8217;s easy to get overwhelmed, so I recommend taking one small step at a time. Keep it tractable and sustainable. For example, it&#8217;s tough to keep going with a 1,000-calorie per day diet. It&#8217;s much easier to cut out a Coke at lunch.

Pick one thing to do in your home. Take a minute or two off of your shower time, or switch to baths, which use much less water. If you own your home and have a yard, cut back on the outdoor watering. Over the long term you can call the plumber to get those leaks fixed, or think about purchasing those more efficient fixtures and appliances.

5 Other Things I Do To Save Water.

Domestic partners everywhere will hate me for these suggestions, all of which I embrace with gusto at home. While they all fall under the category of lifestyle changes that are consistent with a water limited lifestyle, they also conveniently justify a more &#8216;relaxed&#8217; approach to grooming and hygiene. In other words, they make me feel good about being lazy.

1) Skip a shower on weekends. You can still clean up and smell good (though you should probably check with my family). Just, take a day off. Go for it.

2) Ditch washing the car. What a waste. And if you are one of those people that hoses off their driveways, please, save the water and find a better use of your time.

3) Did you know that those expensive designer jeans that we all wear now are not meant to be washed? Like ever? I just hang them back up in the closet after each wearing. Of course you need to spot clean, and honestly, I do throw them in the wash&#8230;eventually.

4) I&#8217;m down to shaving once a week, on Monday mornings. I have a beard trimmer, and I live near LA, so it&#8217;s all good. But between this and the shower thing, you should see me on Sundays.

5) Switch from showers to baths. I did it under the pretense of a bad back. But like I said, really, I&#8217;m just lazy and it&#8217;s just another excuse to lay down.
It&#8217;s easy, right? You can save water, money, time, and the environment by doing less around the house. It&#8217;s genius!
So remember. Think big. Act small. Make one simple change to use less water.

For more information: Last Call At The Oasis

http://www.lastcallattheoasis.com/

https://www.facebook.com/lastcallattheoasis

http://twitter.com/#!/lastcalloasis

The Source:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic...-small-and-5-other-things-i-do-to-save-water/

 

[MJ TinkerBell]

ONE WORLD ONE OCEAN

The Water Footprint Calculator​

What Is Your Water Footprint?

Take a water tour with us through your home, yard, diet, energy, and consumer choices! Then, pledge to cut your water footprint and help return more water to rivers, lakes, wetlands, underground aquifers, and freshwater species.

Know this: The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day&#8212;twice the global average.

The Bright Side:
By pledging to cut your water footprint, you can help restore freshwater ecosystems.
So far there have been 60,165 pledges and a total of 12,025,983 gallons of water pledged.

Ready for the challenge? Let's get started...
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/water-footprint-calculator

 

[MJ TinkerBell]

"We are but drops, together we embody the Ocean of L.O.V.E"​

 

[MJ TinkerBell]

ONE WORLD ONE OCEAN

The Ocean Foundation​

The Ocean Foundation About Us:

The Ocean Foundation (TOF) is a unique community foundation with a mission to support, strengthen, and promote those organizations dedicated to reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world. Our slogan is "Tell Us What You Want To Do For The Ocean, We Will Take Care Of The Rest." We work with a community of donors who care about the coasts and oceans. In this manner, we grow the financial resources available to support marine conservation in order to promote healthy ocean ecosystems and benefit the human communities that depend on them.

Shark Week at 25: Still Controversial
It's one of cable TV's longest-running and most popular annual events. Shark Week celebrates its 25th year, drawing from a seemingly unending human fascination for one of the sea's most celebrated and feared predators. But sharks are also rapidly becoming one of the most endangered predators in the ocean, their numbers reduced by nearly 90 percent over the past half century due to overfishing. Award-winning author, Juliet Elperin reports in The Washington Post that as Shark Week evolves, Discovery is forging alliances with the conservation community to raise awareness about the plight of these animals. The article describes the campaign to transform the series' image as a "work in progress" and it remains full of controversy. The Ocean Foundation (TOF) president, Mark J. Spalding is quoted in the article, as are Dr. Barbara Block of Tag-a-Giant, a project of TOF, and Christopher Palmer, director of American University&#8217;s Center for Environmental Filmmaking and TOF Advisory Board member.

World Ocean Fund
People, Places and Policy

The World Ocean Fund is TOF&#8217;s most general pooled fund, designed for donors of all sizes who have an interest in the saving our oceans and no particular ocean conservation issue in mind. *The Fund addresses urgent needs, emerging issues, and provides grants in areas that do not yet warrant a specialized fund. *This is a grantmaking fund dedicated to the conservation and protection of all aspects of the oceans, as well as the protection of key places, capacity building projects and general support grants for marine conservation organizations. *In short, the World Ocean Fund undertakes grantmaking in ways that do not fall within the guidelines of our more specialized funds.

The goal of the World Ocean Fund is to provide financial resources to diverse and time-sensitive projects that further both ocean health and the goals of the people working so hard on its behalf.

We have used this fund to support hurricane relief and storm-related habitat damage assessment, sustainable aquaculture projects, and activities related to ocean conservation legislation in the USA and in other nations. *Grants from this fund supported the development of marine conservation photography, literature and journalism. *It has also allowed us to support documentary film work and other artistic/media projects that expand the reach of ocean conservation messaging.

We also believe strongly in the value of the convening of marine conservation groups to share lessons learned and to create partnerships that help stretch limited resources. *Thus, the World Ocean Fund&#8217;s grantmaking supports meetings and conferences that bring diverse groups of people together to enable a stronger learning network of concerned ocean advocates to work towards more effective solutions.

The World Ocean Fund at The Ocean Foundation
Connects healthy ocean goals with
People
Places, and
Policy
Great ocean governance depends on well-designed, strategic investments in all three. *It also depends on our ability to meet sudden, unexpected demands for support, monitoring, and even rescue. *Donating to the World Ocean Fund is your opportunity to join others in allowing The Ocean Foundation community to deploy our expertise and your funds on behalf of ocean conservation in a time-sensitive, creative framework. *Investing in the World Ocean Fund ensures your support will go where the need is greatest on behalf of our global ocean and the communities that depend on it.
Please help the World Ocean Fund - donate now!

Coral Reef Fund

Corals are living animals that slowly create limestone reefs, found mostly in shallow, tropical seas. Thousands of different species of corals, fish, sponges, sharks, sea turtles, marine mammals, and invertebrates call these reefs home. Healthy coral reefs are also critical to human communities&#8212;they protect our shores from storms, provide the seafood we like to eat, and attract divers and tourists.
Coral reefs are being destroyed by coastal construction and harmful fishing practices such as explosives and bottom trawling. They also suffer the indirect consequences of human activities&#8212;such as marine pollution, warming seas, and ocean acidification&#8212;which can cause outbreaks of coral bleaching and disease and decimate entire reef systems.
Our Coral Reef Fund provides grants to projects that focus on better managing our fisheries and tourism development, developing sustainable coral reef products, establishing marine reserves, and scientific research that can lead to new breakthroughs in medicine and biotechnology.
Please help the Coral Reef Fund - donate now!

The Source:
http://www.oceanfdn.org/

 

[MJ TinkerBell]

ONE WORLD ONE OCEAN

The Eco-Warriors Series

The Article:

VIFF: Sharkwater Director calls for Revolution to save world&#8217;s fish !!

Canadian director Rob Stewart was at a screening in Hong Kong three years ago to promote his award-winning film Sharkwater when a student asked him an earnest question that left him speechless.

&#8220;What&#8217;s the point of stopping shark finning if all the fish are going to be gone by 2048?&#8221; she asked, referencing a prediction published in the journal Science in 2006 that the world will run out of wild-caught seafood by then if prevailing trends continue.

He didn&#8217;t know what to say.

&#8220;This was the first time where it was pointed out to me that everything I&#8217;d done didn&#8217;t mean anything in the face of this bigger adversary,&#8221; Stewart said Thursday.

The Toronto native is on a swing through Vancouver this week promoting the film that question inspired, Revolution, at TIFF, as well as his new book, Save the Humans.

Shot in stunning locations around the globe from the Great Barrier Reef to Papua New Guinea, the $1-million documentary paints a dramatic picture of climate change&#8217;s &#8220;evil twin&#8221;: ocean acidification. As carbon dioxide is pumped into the atmosphere, the film explains, it dissolves into rivers, lakes and oceans, and the consequence is that reef and other marine ecosystems everywhere are collapsing at astounding rates.

The film features appearance by a couple of B.C. locals: Renowned University of Victoria climate scientist and B.C. Green Party candidate Andrew Weaver, as well as former Vancouver city councillor and UN sustainability delegate David Cadman.

While Revolution doesn&#8217;t offer a lot in the way of original, detailed solutions, it does its best to inspire action and innovation, and Stewart says he remains optimistic about humanity&#8217;s potential for change.

With bans on shark fins now having spread to about 100 countries thanks to mounting public pressure, he has at least some reason to be.

&#8220;I think Sharkwater sort of taught me that humanity&#8217;s good, in a way,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and that if we are just educated about the issue we&#8217;ll do something different.&#8221;

Revolution premiered last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, and will be released in theatres on Earth Day, 2013.

Rob Stewart
31 years old, Canada, Eco-Filmmaker

Bio:Rob Stewart is a Canadian filmmaker who&#8217;s debut film, Sharkwater documents his journey to raise awareness about the importance of sharks in the global ecosystem. Sharkwater broke box office records upon its release in 2007, and has garnered 35 awards internationally. Stewart&#8217;s remarkable journey of courage and determination exposed the shark finning industry to worldwide audiences and spawned numerous conservation movements. Now 31, he continues to promote ocean conservation and is currently working on his next film: a how-to guide to start the revolution necessary to save the planet, and ultimately, humanity.

Rob Stewart: Save the Humans
Wed, Oct 3 : He is best known for his award-winning documentary &#8216;Sharkwater&#8217; focusing on how sharks are mistreated and misunderstood. The self-proclaimed &#8216;animal nerd&#8217; has just finished writing a new book about his life story called &#8216;Save the Humans.&#8217; Rob Stewart joins Global Calgary with details.

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Sharkwater: Official Movie Trailer
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Save The Humans by Rob Stewart

The Sources:

http://www.sharkwater.com/

http://www.therevolutionmovie.com/savethehumans/

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