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With the spotlight on more charismatic marine animals such as the whales and coral reefs, it is easy to forget that other marine life needs our help, too.
They ranged from top predator to bottom-feeder, big to small, marine to freshwater.
And in hospitals all around the world, a new protocol is being developed to use a toxin from a marine snail for anesthetics.
When marine areas are strategically protected, entire ecosystems can bounce back.
However, creating marine protected areas isn't easy.
And marine protection plans must take into account how one area affects another.
If we rely on philanthropic dollars alone to fund marine protection, we might get a small marine-protected area here, another little one there.
But we need more marine protected areas faster, to have lasting impact.
Refinance the debt, then use the savings to create marine protected areas.
Step two: create a marine plan.
Simultaneously, The Nature Conservancy works with marine scientists, government leaders and local stakeholders to create a detailed conservation plan that integrates the needs of the ocean with the needs of the people.
The savings from the debt restructure goes into it to support new marine protected areas.
And in exchange, the government agreed to protect 30 percent of its marine areas.
They became marine.
Every plant virus, every insect virus, every marine virus.
The first patient that we treated was a retired Marine sergeant and a prison corrections officer.
Now, for all you non-seafaring folk, fouling is when things like algae and barnacles and other marine materials get stuck to the sides of ships and submarines.
Consider this: Starting right here at the convention center, we can find the nearby aquarium, we can look at where we're sitting, and then we can cruise up the coast to the big aquarium, the ocean, and California's four national marine sanctuaries, and the new network of state marine reserves that are beginning to protect and restore some of the assets We can flit over to Hawaii and see the real Hawaiian Islands: not just the little bit that pokes through the surface, but also what's below.
Protected areas provide hope that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph.
It provides an ideal environment for growing marine protein.
Once upon a time, I was a stubborn five-year-old who decided to become a marine biologist.
As both a marine biologist and a single person, I can tell you, there aren't that many fish in the sea.
About four years ago, I thought I'd do something really barking crazy, and I committed to do a PhD in marine ecology.
And the scary part about that was, sure, I learned a lot about marine life, but it taught me more about marine death and the extreme mass ecological fatality of fish, of marine life, marine mammals, very close biology to us, which are dying in the millions if not trillions that we can't count at the hands of plastic.
It breaks down smaller and smaller and smaller, and the breaking science on this, Chris, which we've known in marine ecology for a few years now, but it's going to hit humans.
You don't need one ton of plastic to completely wipe out marine life.
And the clue to this came from another marine bacterium, and it's a bacterium called "Vibrio fischeri."
(Applause and cheers) I'm a marine biologist here to talk to you about the crisis in our oceans, but this time perhaps not with a message you've heard before, because I want to tell you that if the survival of the oceans depended only on people like me, scientists trading in publications, we'd be in even worse trouble than we are.
I first landed on the island of Madagascar two decades ago, on a mission to document its marine natural history.
They outlawed fishing with poison and mosquito nets and set aside permanent refuges around threatened coral reefs and mangroves, including, to my astonishment, those same sights that I'd flagged just two years earlier when my evangelism for marine protection was so roundly rejected.
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