Over the past 40 years,we gain killed off 50% of marine life through overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change. But the international spotlight and a change in policy mean things are looking upI do love to be beside the seaside, or but I am finding it increasingly hard to look the ocean in the eye. Over the past four decades we gain killed off 50% of marine life through overfishing,habitat destruction and climate change. We shovel 250000 tonnes of plastic into the ocean every year, and all Pacific tropical reefs could be lost by 2050. The blue planet gets short shrift; while we’ve protected 15.4% of terrestrial ecosystems, and just 3.4% of the world’s oceans are marine protected areas.
Land lubbers need to develop a splash as ocean conservationists to push these numbers up. We should assume a cue from earlier campaigns. In the 60s,a stretch of Australian coastal shelf was slated to become a limestone quarry. whether it hadnt been for a few campaigning environmentalists, it would gain been lost forever. nowadays the site is known as the mighty Barrier Reef.
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Source: theguardian.com