How you can
save the ocean…
Les van SEA SHEPHERD
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How you can
save the ocean…
Do you know your impact on the ocean
Firstly, do you know how you are contributing to the ocean’s destruction?
How big is your impact on the ocean?
Do you?
Eat fish or other marine life
Feed your pets food made from marine life
Consume health products made from marine life
Litter – whether by accident or intentionally
Buy clothes made from plastic based materials – synthetics like polyester, nylon, acrylic, lycra, rayon, velvet etc
Pour chemicals down the drain – cleaning products, personal care etc
Go out boating or take cruises
Visit aquariums or have a fish tank at home
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Eat fish or other marine life, or feed your pets food made from marine life
By consuming fish you are contributing to
Overfishing resulting in the collapse of species and ecosystems.
Ecosystem destruction as species are removed and the ocean floor scrapped clean by trawlers
The deaths of marine life for no reason – by-catch
Impacting your health as pollutants and plastics continue to contaminate marine life.
Governments subsidising the fishing industries to ensure it remains cheap
Supporting organised crime – illegal fishing, human trafficking and deaths of workers, stealing from poor coastal communities
Contributing to plastic pollution – each year over 700,000 tonnes of fishing gear is abandoned or lost in the ocean. Becoming ghost nets that continue to kill. They are made of plastic and contribute to the increasing amount of pollution in the ocean.
Contributing to climate change – the ocean is a massive carbon sink, its removal and that of key species will contribute to climate change and warming waters. Over 4 million fishing vessels globally run on fossil fuel.
Eating marine life contributes to
Consume health products made from marine life
By consuming health supplements made from marine life you are contributing to:
Endangered species being targeted – over 1/3 sharks are endangered, yet targeted for shark fin and shark liver oil products
Removal of critical food sources from ecosystems, krill supports whales, seals, penguins and birds but is being removed by massive supertrawlers. These trawlers are also killing whales in their nets or by hitting them.
Consuming health products
Litter – whether by accident or intentionally
By allowing litter to flow into the ocean it increases the level of pollution, both chemical and plastic, that will be ingested by marine life.
Plastic litter
Buy clothes made from plastic based materials – synthetics like polyester, nylon, acrylic, lycra, rayon, velvet etc
Clothes made from plastic materials will shed microfibers that will go down the drain every time you wash them. Joining the flow of plastic heading into the ocean and waters.
Fast fashion – plastic waste
Pour chemicals down the drain – cleaning products, personal care.
These can find their way into the ocean and add to the toxic mix that marine life are exposed to. With the potential to kill, impact their health, ability to reproduce.
Chemical pollution
Go out boating or take cruises
Boating, whether small leisure craft to the big cruise ships are responsible for polluting the ocean, with waste going over board, to leaking oils,
Carbon pollution from their engines.
Ability to injure marine wildlife.
Entertainment – boating and cruise ships
Visit aquariums or have a fish tank at home
Where do these marine animals come from?
Taken from reef systems to sell, reducing the ecosystems
Many dolphin and orca were originally captured in the wild to live in captivity.
Taiji hunts dolphins for captivity and kills the rest of the pods for meat.
Visiting aquariums
Do you know how to reduce your impact?
How can you save the ocean?
Start by
Not eating fish or other marine life – reduce or eliminate your consumption
Stop feeding your pets food made from marine life
Don’t consume health products made from marine life
Don’t Litter – ensure you always take your rubbish and dispose of it properly.
Don’t buy clothes made from plastic based materials or use filters to stop microfibers going down the drain.
How can you save the ocean?
Start by
Stop and think about what you are pouring down the drain, use less chemicals– cleaning products, personal care,
When you go out boating or on cruises make sure waste is disposed of properly and that you watch out for marine life .
Don’t visit aquariums or have rare or tropical fish in tanks at home. Know where they come from, don’t support captivity.
By doing so you can help
Reduce overfishing and illegal fishing
Reduce number of marine life deaths due to by-catch.
Stop illegal fishing
Reduce rubbish entering the ocean.
Reduce pollutants entering the ocean.
Conservation starts
with you
How will you help save the ocean..