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STORY: UN / WORLD OCEANS DAY
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SOURCE: UNTV / WORLD BANK / UNDP / GREENPEACE
RESTRICTIONS: GREENPEACE FOOTAGE—NO ACCESS APTN LIBRARY
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
08 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Cutaway, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence:
“The Ocean drives climate and weather; shapes the character of the planet. We do know now that the ocean where 97 percent of the earths water is, is vital, not just to the dolphins, the whales, the coral reefs, its our life support system too. We are sea creatures as much as any of the other creatures who actually live in the ocean; because without the ocean our lives would not be possible. Anything we care about, our economy, our health, our security, life itself depends on the fact that this is a blue planet. The Ocean is the key to our survival.”
5. Cutaway, guests
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence:
“Maybe the biggest problem of all is ignorance and with it complacency. There a lot of people who still think its ok to put into the ocean whatever we want to, that it’ll be alright; and to take out of the ocean without limit, thinking that that’s alright. But therefore the knowledge, the understanding that these things have limits, that this is time as never before to take action, maybe as never again, because now we’ve lots 90 percent of some of the big fish, we’ve got 10 percent left but if we don’t take action soon it’ll all be gone by the middle of this century, at least going to the point where recovering them for food or other activities will simply not be an option.”
7. Cutaway, conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) David Freestone Lobingier, Visiting Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence, George Washington University:
“So sustainability is the key concept. 80 percent of the pollution in the ocean is actually land based and much of that is from people’s gardens, you know nutrients its sewage, but its also nutrients they add to the gardens particularly in the developed countries, there are dead spots before we had the oil spill, there were dead spots in the Gulf of Mexico and those are just caused by nutrient runoff. So there are ways in which we can look at the way that regulate our affairs.”
FILE / UNTV / 15 FEBRUARY - 15 MARCH 2008, BALI, INDONESIA
9. Wide shot, fishing boat haul taken from underwater
FILE / GREENPEACE -- NO ACCESS APTN LIBRARY / DATE UNKNOWN
10. Zoom out, fish catch in storage
11. Med shot, dead octopus
12. Wide shot, huge nets filled with fish on deck
13. Wide shot, EU Stern Trawler on high seas
14. Various shots, underwater footage of deep sea trawling
FILE / DATE UNKNOWN, MUHELI, COMOROS ISLANDS
15. Wide shot, green turtles mating in water of Island
FILE / ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE / TELEVISION MALDIVES
16. Various shots, underwater marine life
17. Tracking Shot, Maldives coastline
Commemorating World Oceans Days today at the United Nations (UN) Sylvia Earle from National Geographic Explorer said that Oceans were vital not just to sea life but “it’s our life support system”.
As a result of a United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution passed in December 2008, World Oceans Day is now officially recognized by the UN as June 8th each year.
This year’s theme focuses on the ocean’s great diversity of life and how people can all help in its conservation.
Earle told a press conference that without the ocean our lives would not be possible. “Anything we care about, our economy, our health, our security, life itself depends on the fact that this is a blue planet. The Ocean is the key to our survival”.
She also noted that the biggest problem of all “was ignorance and with it complacency”. She pointed out that there were a lot of people who still thought it was ok to put into the ocean “whatever we want to, that it’ll be alright; and to take out of the ocean without limit, thinking that that’s alright”.
She said that now that we had already lost “90 percent of some of the big fish, we’ve got 10 percent left but if we don’t take action soon it’ll all be gone by the middle of this century at least going to the point where recovering them for food or other activities will simply not be an option.”
Also briefing the media Professor David Freestone Lobingier, from the George Washington University said that the key concept was sustainability. He added that 80 percent of the pollution in the ocean was actually land based and much of that is from the nutrients people fed their gardens with.
The concept for a “World Ocean Day” was first proposed in 1992 by the Government of Canada at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and it had been unofficially celebrated every year since then. Since 2002, The Ocean Project and the World Ocean Network have helped to promote and coordinate World Oceans Day events worldwide.
