Leaders of the world
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Emergency Oceans Rescue Plan
Our oceans give us life – they provide us with oxygen and
food, and they contain over 80% of all life on Earth. In
exchange, we plunder them of fish, choke them with
pollution and heat them with climate change. As a result of
industrial fishing in the last 60 years, 90% of the oceans’
large predatory fish, such as tuna, swordfish, marlin and
sharks, have been taken from our oceans. We are only
beginning to understand the full extent of the impacts our
actions have. As climate change causes sea ice in our polar
oceans to melt and air pollution increases the acidity of our
oceans, the degradation of our oceans is gathering pace.
However, our ocean crisis can - and must - be reversed by
setting aside areas of oceans as marine reserves, areas offlimits to fishing and other industrial activities, like wildlife
parks at sea. In 2006, Greenpeace presented a bold vision
for the world community - a proposal for a global network of
marine reserves covering 40% of the oceans. Since then,
world leaders have failed to make significant progress,
despite international commitments under the World Summit
on Sustainable Development (WSSD) and the Convention
on Biological Diversity (CBD), to create this network by
2012. The condition of our oceans has continued to worsen;
today less than 1% of them are protected as marine
reserves.
Adaptado de: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/PageFiles/163940/Emerge
ncy%20Oceans%20Rescue%20Plan%20-
20Executive%20Summary .pdf> Acessado em 7 de novembro
de2010
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Emergency Oceans Rescue Plan
Our oceans give us life – they provide us with oxygen and food, and they contain over 80% of all life on Earth. In exchange, we plunder them of fish, choke them with pollution and heat them with climate change. As a result of industrial fishing in the last 60 years, 90% of the oceans’ large predatory fish, such as tuna, swordfish, marlin and sharks, have been taken from our oceans. We are only beginning to understand the full extent of the impacts our actions have. As climate change causes sea ice in our polar oceans to melt and air pollution increases the acidity of our oceans, the degradation of our oceans is gathering pace.
However, our ocean crisis can - and must - be reversed by setting aside areas of oceans as marine reserves, areas offlimits to fishing and other industrial activities, like wildlife parks at sea. In 2006, Greenpeace presented a bold vision for the world community - a proposal for a global network of marine reserves covering 40% of the oceans. Since then, world leaders have failed to make significant progress, despite international commitments under the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to create this network by 2012. The condition of our oceans has continued to worsen; today less than 1% of them are protected as marine reserves.
Adaptado de: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/PageFiles/163940/Emerge ncy%20Oceans%20Rescue%20Plan%20- 20Executive%20Summary .pdf> Acessado em 7 de novembro de2010
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