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THEMATIC REPORT: Will we be able to save the marine life from us? |
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by Mufaro Zibanai | 27-11-2019 22:36
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"Will we able to save the marine life from us?" a question that only us humans answer through actions. Marine life threats are being created by people through their actions. We are not grateful as we should because without marine life we are nothing. Where we will get food and oxygen? Food for thought. Marine life, or sea life or ocean life, is the plants, animals and other organisms that live in the salt water of the sea or ocean, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. At a fundamental level, marine life helps determine the very nature of our planet. Marine organisms produce much of the oxygen we breathe (Wikipedia, 2019) In addition we get food from marine life. Mackerel, sardines and prawns are high source of protein and where do we get them? Many countries their economies rely on these marine life through exporting to landlocked countries such as Zimbabwe. Around the world, over 15 percent of our high-quality protein comes from the oceans — which also provide the primary and often only source of protein for one billion people (Great Grub Club, 2011). The above paragraphs clearly show the benefits mankind get from marine life but we in return, we have disastrous actions to the marine life. Pollution is the main threat to the marine life and it is killing thousands of the oceans residents. Sea water is contaminated with oil and sewage released and we justify as signs of economic activities. In addition our fishing is unsustainable because of the fishing methods we are using which exploit the sea. The rate of fishing is exceeding the growth of the fish thus in the end there will be a threat of extinction of other species. On conclusion we have to stand as people to protect marine life rather than destroying it because our lives depend on them. We should opt for more efficient and effective systems in fishing, transporting and waste disposal. Let us save the oceans #savetheoceans movement, together yes we can. Robert Swan, "The greatest danger to our planet is the belief that someone will save it." |
  
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4 Comments
Hello Mufaro!!
I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
Thank you for your report about saving the marine life
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Regards,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 07-12-2019 13:01
Hello Mufaro
Pictures you uploaded are really touching and tell me the importance of preserving marine environment. More and more wastes are being disposed to ocean, and now it's the time human society should give effort to co-exist with the marine life.
As mentioned in the report, we get tremendous advantages from the water resources, and those advantages should not be taken for granted.
Again, effort should be taken before the results are irreversible.
Thank you for the great report.
Posted 05-12-2019 18:22
Hey Mufaro
it's Lisa your mentor.
I think you have successfully pointed out some of the major problems that we are causing to marine life.
Among the three that you have mentioned, I would like to talk about the transportation part for I believe that not many of you have written your reports involving it.
Marine transportation is definitely influencing our marine ecosystem and often in a bad way. One example is ballastwater, the water that you would use to keep the balance of the ships. The problem is that oftentimes when a ship travels across the world, it would dispose of the ballastwater that is from the other part of the world to its destination. For the water contains enough micro marine lives such as bacteria to create confusion in the indigenous ecosystem, ballast water has been a threat to the marine ecosystem. Although there has been an international convention to prohibit the disposal of ballastwater before it goes through the proper disposal process, we still have a long way to go.
I think you'd be interested in this topic dear and I hope the others take time to learn more about the ballastwater.
Nice job Mufaro and I will be looking forward to your next report:)
Green Cheers!
Posted 28-11-2019 23:12
Hello Mufaro!!
I hope you are fine and doing great.
Thank you for writing great report.
Keep writing and shining.
Hope to know more from you.
Warm regards,
Meena
GREEN CHEERS
Posted 28-11-2019 16:06