What do you picture when you think of your home? Your home and mine might look quite similar, but we're still pretty unusual on the planet. Because for billions of animals on Earth, home is the ocean.
And this blue home is in crisis. Overfishing, plastic pollution, oil drilling and climate breakdown are gutting our oceans of life and disrupting delicate ecosystems.
It’s a tragedy that doesn’t get enough airtime, which is why we've teamed up with Aardman Animations — the creators of the beloved stop-motion series, Wallace and Gromit — to produce this powerful short video about what this exploitation is doing to ocean life.
We need as many people as possible to know about the urgent crisis unfolding in our oceans if we’re to change it.
The video tells the story of an adorable family of sea turtles as they journey home, and is voiced by actors David Harbour, Helen Mirren, Jim Carter, Olivia Colman, Giovanna Lancellotti, Bella Ramsey and Ahir Shah. It’s beautiful and lovable — but cuts straight to the heart of the issue.
The plight of sea turtles represents the suffering of our oceans as a whole. Six out of seven sea turtle species are threatened with extinction due to the pressures of multiple ocean threats.1 Similarly, marine life is disappearing at twice the speed of life on land due to climate change.2 This is a reality we can’t accept, Jessie, and we don’t have to.
Scientists have a plan that would help heal our oceans. They’ve said that if we can create a vast network of sanctuaries, we’d boost ocean resilience and give wildlife a chance to recover. And for the first time in history, there’s a process underway to make this possible: a UN Global Ocean Treaty.
But to make a strong Global Ocean Treaty happen we need a huge movement of people.
Please watch this powerful video with special guests Olivia Colman and Helen Mirren, and sign on to support a strong Global Ocean Treaty
It’s a little-known fact that keeping our oceans healthy and teeming with life is not just the right thing to do, it’s crucial for ensuring a safe future. This is because the vast array of amazing life in our oceans is one of our best allies in the fight against climate breakdown. Sea creatures naturally capture climate-wrecking carbon and store it away.3 Cool, huh?
This is why it’s so important to give our oceans a fighting chance. From the tiniest ocean critter to us humans: we’re all in this together.
Ocean sanctuaries work, and so does people power. We can change the fate of our oceans, but first we need people to know that they’re in crisis.
Thanks for all you do,
John Hocevar
Oceans Campaign Director, Greenpeace USA
Oceans Campaign Director, Greenpeace USA
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Save the Turtles, Protect the Oceans
Six out of seven sea turtle species are threatened with extinction. Watch their story and sign the petition calling for a global network of ocean sanctuaries to protect the turtles’ homes: http://www.greenpeace.org/turtlejourney Turtle Journey was created by Greenpeace and Aardman Animations (Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep), and features special guests Jim Carter, Olivia Colman, David Harbour, Giovanna Lancellotti, Helen Mirren, Bella Ramsey and Ahir Shah.
From fishing nets and oil spills to climate change and plastic pollution, the threats facing turtles and other sea creatures are getting worse every day. Now we have a chance to turn things around, by making the most vulnerable and important parts of our seas off-limits to destructive industries.
Right now, until the final negotiating session on March 23, 2020, governments are coming together at a United Nations Intergovernmental Conference to work on a Global Ocean Treaty. If they get it right, it'll open the door to a vast network of ocean sanctuaries, which could protect over a third of the world's seas.
Our oceans sustain all life on Earth — now they need us to protect them.
Add your name to tell Evan Bloom, U.S. State Department Director of Ocean and Polar Affairs, to agree to a strong Global Ocean Treaty at the UN.
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