Marine life is the plant, animals and other organisms that live in the salt water of the sea or ocean, or the blackish water of the coastal estuaries. Marine life affects the nature of the planet in various ways; these include but are not limited to, producing oxygen and sequestering carbon.

About 20% of the world’s coral reefs have been destroyed and shows no prospects for recovery. The remaining 24% of the coral reefs are under imminent risk of declining and collapse due to human pressure.

Life below water matters because oceans provide key natural resources including medicines, biofuels, food and others other resources. They are helpful in the removal and breakdown of waste and other pollution. Maintaining healthy oceans supports adaptation process and climate change mitigation. 

The marine environment is a home to a sustaining variety of creatures, ranging from single-celled organisms to big animals. It is also a homes to coral reefs, one of the most diverse ecosystem of the planet.

Increasing levels of pollution in the world’s oceans is a major environmental setback. Marine debris including plastic wastes impacts marine life through entanglement or ingestion of the debris by organisms, which can choke, kill or make them not able to reproduce. In addition, improper management of marine life leads to overfishing and destroying of rare organism’s species.

According to United Nations, the cost of sustaining the global ocean requires a US$32 billion one-time public cost and US$21 billion dollars a year for recurring costs. In order to create a sustainable future for the marine life, we should eliminate all forms of water pollution as possible and organize bioremediation to the oceans.