Marine Conservation Projects: Why Recent Wins for Endangered Species Matter

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There has been a ton of good news
surrounding the ocean these days, even

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though there's still some bad news.

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There's been a ton of great news.

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We've seen the green sea turtle
drop from endangered to least

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vulnerable, which is fantastic.

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We've also seen that there's
been a little slight increase in

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the North Atlantic right whale
population, which is wonderful.

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And now there's been a discovery of
potentially two more new vaquitas,

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which there are an estimated less
than 10 vaquitas at some point.

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And any new calf is great.

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So there's been some good news and
I wanted to address it today to talk

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about why this has happened because
with all the bad news that's happening.

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There's some good news and there's a
reason why this is happening, and we're

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gonna talk about it on today's episode
of the How to Protect the Ocean Podcast.

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Let's start the show.

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another exciting episode
of the How to Protect the Ocean Podcast.

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I'm your host, Andrew Lewin, and
this is the podcast where you find

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out what's happening with the ocean,
how you can speak up for the ocean,

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and what you can do to live for
a better ocean by taking action.

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And today is a good day because I'm
gonna explain to you why there has

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been some good news in three separate
occasions of ocean stuff that's happening.

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There's been increase in the green
sea turtle population, which has

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degraded them from endangered
species to least endangered or

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least vulnerable, which is great.

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We've also seen an increase, a slight
increase in the population of the

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North Atlantic right whale, which
shows not necessarily an increase in

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population, but we know that it's not
a decrease in population, which is

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the first time in a number of years
that's happened, and we actually

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have witnesses of a calf, vaquita calf

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that hasn't been seen in a long time.

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Like we haven't seen a
calf in such a long time.

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The estimated population was under 10.

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Doesn't necessarily mean that
this population is going to

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increase beyond being extinct.

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Still has a long way to go, but we've
seen some good news and around all three

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of these species, there is a reason why.

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But first, let's talk about some of
the bad news that has happened to

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cause this stuff with sea turtles,
with whales, there's been some hunting.

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Every time, green sea turtle, all
seven species of green sea turtle

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or have been endangered other
than the green sea turtle now.

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Any sea turtle has the endangered
kind of label to it and in a

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number of different countries.

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Also the IUCN red list and now the green
sea turtle is actually in certain, and

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overall has increased in population
enough that it's not endangered anymore.

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I think it's least vulnerable,
which is great news.

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There's still a lot of pressure on
sea turtles in general and green

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sea turtles in general because
people use it to eat sea turtles.

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People use it to eat the eggs, which
obviously the eggs are important.

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If you don't know about sea turtles, when
they lay their eggs, they lay a number and

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they can range anywhere from 50 to 450.

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These sea turtle eggs will hatch
at some point underneath the sand

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and they will get to the ocean.

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They will make their mad
rush to the ocean.

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Some will get eaten on the way by
birds, raccoons, other animals.

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Some will go the wrong way
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that, depending on where it is.

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And then some will make it to the ocean.

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And out of that clutch of
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two will make it to adulthood.

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The odds are not in
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And then there's a lot of animals
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one or two animals per clutch
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The odds are already against them.

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Now you have a lot of human factors
like digging up the eggs, eating all the

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eggs, or going in and hunting them or
hitting them by their boats or getting

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entangled in fishing gear and so forth
makes for a very difficult situation

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for these sea turtles around the world.

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Now with northern right whales,
they were hunted to extinction.

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There used to be 20 to 30,000 before
we started hunting them for their

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blubber, for energy matters and oil.

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Once that stopped, you
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And then of course we started to see a
decrease in the last 10 years, 15 years.

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If you don't know the details,
you can go to the episode.

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I'll link it in the show notes,
or I'll link it to this video

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and you can go check that out.

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But it's starting to
slowly come back again.

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We started to see a decrease and started
to slowly come back and there's a

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reason for it and we'll talk about it.

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And the vaquita, well, the vaquita, a
lot of people are still doubting the fact

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that we can get it back to what it is.

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The big thing around the
Vaquita is the Totoaba.

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The Totoaba is a fish that is highly
sought after for it's swim bladder.

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It has apparent medicinal properties,
which hasn't necessarily been

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proven in any medical journal
at all or any medical research.

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And so that gets sent off to China.

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Now, unfortunately, throughout this whole
process, organized crime got involved.

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There's a lot of money in it.

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And so they catch and
sell a lot of totoaba.

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Now, the totoaba, the way they
catch it, they use gillnets.

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They catch a lot of them.

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But when the gillnets are set, these
Vaquita, these little porpoises get

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caught in the gillnets, and so they
end up dying in the gillnets and

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then the totoaba would die as well,
and they get shipped off to China.

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So that population has decreased so much.

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Last time there was an
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They're also very elusive, so it's very
difficult to get a proper estimate.

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So there might be less, there
might be a little bit more,

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it's very difficult to tell.

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Regardless, a calf has been
cited, which is fantastic.

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And now we're saying, oh, well
maybe just, maybe there's a bit

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of a reason why that's happening.

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And all three have the same properties.

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There are people, multiple
people, numerous people that are

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dedicated to their protection.

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And there are a number of people,
individual organizations, there are

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government departments, multiple
government departments, and depending

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on which country you're in, who are
dedicated to protecting and have put

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it into law to protect these animals to
make sure that this population increases.

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Now some will win and some won't.

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Right?

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In the case of the Vaquita, there's
a good chance that this thing's gonna

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go extinct within our lifetime just
because there's so few, however.

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However, the fact that there are
so many of these projects going on

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around the world, some are small,
some are large, some are just kind

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of in the middle, it is happening

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where we are seeing these projects,
these policies help in conservation.

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This is huge.

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And this means that it works.

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If we come together or if we do things
individually and we work to take our

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little sections of our world and say,
Hey, I can do the best I can for this

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species, for this habitat, for this
coastline, for this natural area,

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I can do something good.

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As a collective, we can do something good.

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The IUCN red list that has all these
species, including the green sea turtle,

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can't protect everything in every country.

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Every country where these green
sea turtles are found has to have

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their own policies and laws, have
to have their own organizations that

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will do the work to protect them.

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They have to have their own
individuals that will volunteer

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or that will spend their time and
their money, or even their career

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to be able to dedicate to protecting
these animals, and that is huge.

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When it comes to the Green Sea Turtle,
there are organizations all over the

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world that are working within their own
collective areas, whether it's Costa

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Rica, whether it's Greece, whether it's
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it's along the Florida coastline or
the southeast coastline of the us.

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It doesn't matter along Europe, anywhere
there's sea turtles and green sea turtles.

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We've seen projects to one patrol at night
to make sure that these eggs, these nests

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where these eggs are laid, are protected.

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There are no poachers that come
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actually protected by volunteers.

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By students, by scientists, by
conservationists who are dedicating

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their time and their effort and sometimes
their safety to be able to protect

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these areas, to protect these species.

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And that protection has scaled and
it's allowed the chances, even if

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their odds are not in their favor for
those sea turtles to get out into the

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ocean for those one or two sea turtles
to be reach adulthood per clutch.

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That's how great it is.

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That's what we need to do.

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The North Atlantic right whales,
do you think that they've just

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gotten better because of policy?

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No.

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There are a lot of people out there,
organizations, scientific bodies,

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academics, government agencies who are
monitoring these whales, whether they're

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doing flyovers, whether they're doing
drone work, whether they're doing along

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the coastline or ship, you know, watching
and do like whale watching surveys.

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These are so important to understanding
not only the size of the population,

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especially when they're endangered, but
understanding what's affecting them.

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There are organizations that are there
just dedicated to untangling whales.

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Do you know how hard it
is to untangle whales?

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It's actually quite dangerous to untangle
a whale while it's swimming at its speed,

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which is usually faster than you want it
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People have actually
passed away because of it.

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It is tragic, but they have spent their
time to make sure that these animals

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are protected as best as possible.

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And this is why it's so important,
whether you're a scientist, whether

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you're a conservationist, whether
you're somebody who just wants to

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help, is to support these projects.

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There are people who volunteer to
help bring awareness for the Vaquita.

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There are people who volunteer down
in Mexico to go into the villages

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and convince the villagers who are
out there fishing, who are trying

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to feed their families to find
alternatives to using gillnets

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'cause gillnets are banned in the
area, but they use them anyway.

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And that's what kills the vaquita and
the totoaba, which is also endangered.

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And they try and work their way and work
within the community, work within the

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village to be like, Hey, we don't want
you just to stop and not make money.

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We want you to be understandable
and to be like, Hey, you know what?

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We want you to not only stop fishing
for these and start using these gear,

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but we want you to be profitable.

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We want you to help, and they're
doing whatever they can to help.

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And work with the fishing villages
that need their money to feed

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their families, to have their
kids go to school and be happy.

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It's not an easy thing to do.

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This is not something that is easily
done, and this is to save a porpous

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that could go extinct anyway, but
they're fighting as much as they

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can tooth and nail just to get the
species up by one individual at a time.

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That's the important thing.

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This is what makes conservation so great,
is there are people who are so passionate

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and you don't have to be a scientist.

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You don't have to know
much about the ocean.

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You just have to be dedicated
to protecting nature and

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have a passion for it.

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And people are out there doing the work,
whether it's on the front lines, on the

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ocean, on the coastlines, or if it's in
the workshops, in the hotel conference

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rooms, making sure that policies are going
forward that will protect these species

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and continue to protect these species.

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Because I don't know if you've ever
watched but there are some governments

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that are in power these days that
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It happens a lot.

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It doesn't matter what party you're from.

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If they want something specific,
they will strip those powers away.

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Those protections away that people
work so hard to be put in place,

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including government officials,
elected government officials

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that want to protect these areas.

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We've seen it in the us, we've
seen it in Canada, we've seen

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it all over the world, and it's
something that we have to protect.

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And there are people out there who
are protesting, who are lobbying,

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who are speaking to the right people
and saying, Hey, you know what?

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We need to protect these animals.

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And so when people come to
me and they say, Hey Andrew,

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how do I protect sea turtles.

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How do I protect sea grass habitats?

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How do I protect sea birds, or how do
I protect sharks, or how do I protect a

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coral reef or whatever I like to protect
whatever you're interested A kelp forest

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is that you look up these organizations
and you say, Hey, I wanna support you.

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I wanna donate to this organization.

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There are individuals who are on Patreon
who do a fantastic work to educate not

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only individuals, but educate villages,
educate people who are gonna take over and

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monitor like on small island communities
that don't have the capabilities to

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learn how to use specific technologies.

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These are the people you
can support individually.

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You can support studies that
help scientists understand

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the environment more.

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You can go on experiment.com
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experiment.com.

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You can actually fund studies.

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These are the things that you can
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a direct effect, but you might be
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a vet in the industry like a scientist
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maker, or a lobbyist, or somebody
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or works for an organization.

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You can be supporting them like $20
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You can do that, and you can say, I'm
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Then you can share whatever comes outta
that organization, whether they're sharing

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studies or they're sharing call to action.

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You can share that online and you can feel
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what you do, whether you're watching
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this episode, what you do is important.

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And you may not see it

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right away.

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You may not see it six months from now.

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You may not see it tomorrow, you
may not see it a year from now.

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You may not see it 10 years from now.

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You may not even see it within your
lifetime, but supporting these projects,

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supporting the people who are working
to do this stuff, these organizations

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will help forward conservation.

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There are so many people who are
on the front lines and working in

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stranding networks to ensure that
if we see a marine mammal stranded,

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they're the first ones out there.

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They have protocols, they've been
trained to do certain things.

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They've been trained to put them back
out or float them or doing whatever

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you can for marine mammals to get
them out there to understand what's

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happening to these animals as they
wash up, whether it's something

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that we should be concerned about.

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whether it's something that, you know,
just they're old and they ended up passing

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away, whether they're entangled and
how to get rid of the entanglement, to

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get the ropes off and the lines off.

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These are all things that people
do and you can support those

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organizations through a donation.

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And it's so good.

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If makes you feel so good, trust me,
from somebody who does it, like just

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these bracelets here that I have.

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This is from Fahlo.

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F-A-H-L-O.

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It's an app that I found
that somebody told me about.

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And you can help tag an animal.

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And so what they do is that through these
braces as they sell, it's a for-profit

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company, they sell these bracelets.

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A portion goes to the organization
that is tag the animals.

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So if you wanna protect the dolphin,
a shark, a whale shark, a penguin,

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a polar bear, you wanna do a land
animals like gorillas, sloths even.

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They do a lot and they show you
the animal that you're sponsoring

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to put a satellite tag on.

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These are all important to conservation.

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And they're small and they
may not feel as if they are

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gonna be big, but they are big.

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And it's something that's important.

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And it's something that I
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When somebody says, Hey, climate change
is rearing its ugly head again or We see a

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storm, you can do something by protecting
the environment, not even just a specific

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animal, by protecting the environment.

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That's what you can do.

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Donate your time, donate your money,
whatever it might be, small project,

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big project, it doesn't matter.

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It all helps in protecting sea
turtles, in protecting whales,

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in protecting porpoises, coral
reefs, seagrasses, everything.

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That's the message today.

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That's it.

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Short and sweet.

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I'd love to hear your thoughts
on what you work to protect.

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Let me know in the comments below
if you're watching this on YouTube.

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If you are listening to this on your
favorite podcast app, let me know by

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DMing me at how to protect the Ocean.

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Or you can go to speak
up for blue.com/contact.

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Fill out the form.

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It goes right to my email.

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I'd love to hear what you're doing or
what you want to do to protect the ocean.

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And if you have information, let me know.

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I wanna thank you so much for
joining me on this episode of the

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How to Protect the Ocean Podcast.

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I'm your host, Andrew Lewin from
the True north strong and Free.

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Have a great day.

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We'll talk to you next time
and happy conservation.