Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
SYLVIA EARLEPeople still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
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Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
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There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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