5 INSPIRING VIDEOS TO WATCH ON WORLD OCEANS DAY
World Oceans Day is held every year on 8th June to raise awareness of the vital importance of our oceans and the role they play in sustaining a healthy planet. A global celebration, it looks to bring people and organisations together across the globe in a series of events highlighting how we can all help protect and conserve the oceans.
On World Oceans Day, people around our blue planet celebrate and honor our ocean, which connects us all. Get together with your family, friends, community, and millions of others around our blue planet to start creating a better future.
Below are 5 videos we hope inspire you to act to help protect, preserve and ultimately save our oceans.
“No blue, no green.”
5. MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
4. HOW TO CARE FOR THE OCEAN (NAT GEO)
Watch this video with your family and friends to learn small steps that have a big impact on the well-being of our oceans.
3. VALERIE TAYOR BEFRIENDS A MORAY EEL
It would take an encyclopedia size entry to describe Valerie’s life and work. Her partnership with husband Ron Taylor produced a prolific body of work and achievement that only ended with Ron’s passing in 2012. Since then Valerie has continued to dive and passionately advocate for the oceans and ocean wild life. She is also an artist and author.
2. SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH EXPLAINS WHY WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR OCEANS
Sir David Attenborough imagines healthy and abundant oceans - something that is within our reach. Previously, the World Trade Organization negotiated global rules for industry and agricultural subsidies, and right now we need to do the same for fishing. We need WTO members to agree on an international deal to eliminate harmful fishing subsidies and help our oceans bounce back. The film has been produced in collaboration with Our Planet, Friends of Ocean Action, Silverback Films, the World Economic Forum and WWF.
DR. SYLVIA EARLE: HOW TO PROTECT OUR OCEANS (TED TALK)
Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean -- and shocking stats about its rapid decline -- as she makes her TED Prize wish: that we will join her in protecting the vital blue heart of the planet.