we’re the gentlemen of ocean is facing
an unprecedented crisis climate change
pollution multi-verse to us and thank
yous change are driving the ocean to the
brink the scale and magnitude of the
devastation is so colossal that might
with the normal functioning of a planet
for quite a long time
we humans have caused it the base
structure of the human economy that is
our human society there’s the economic
system is designed to externalize the
cost of growth and development to the
nature unfortunately this is something
that even Karl Marx could not foresee in
his otherwise brilliant critique of
capitalism but Marx lived on a different
planet one with far less carbon dioxide
in the air
no plastics in our ocean so where does
forgive Marx and we’re Responder over
what might happen if the ocean trips and
how to prevent that the earth behaves as
a single self-regulating system
comprised of physical chemical
biological and human components the
ocean performs critical functions in
maintaining the necessary conditions for
life on Earth ocean scientists a
gorgeous silver are rightly called it
the blue heart of the planet this Fraser
stuck with me for quite a long time as
the most apt description of the pace of
the ocean in other planets system I
teach scuba diving now and my
interaction with the ocean is quite
intimate but on earth dr. Earle I came
to this realization to a very different
code as an earth space and
here and as a science fiction aficionado
I’ll always forward with great interest
the progress in space exploration and
the search for life beyond Earth drawn
to the vastness of space
and the fascinating works which I
thought right there I was brought back
to earth by these series of images of
first taken by Apollo 17 astronauts and
subsequently by satellites we all know
71% of the earth is ocean but here you
can actually appreciate that the earth
is an ocean planet and the ocean is Expo
heart the ocean regulates the planet’s
climate and explore habitability by
absorbing vast amounts of carbon dioxide
present concentrations of carbon dioxide
which is the major byproduct of fossil
fuel combustion responsible for ongoing
global warming are about 50 percent
higher than they have ever been in the
last at least 800,000 years and here
these would have been much higher had
the ocean not been absorbing vast
amounts of carbon dioxide over the past
200 years of human industrial activity
but the human activity has reached
fanatic levels and there are no signs of
it abating the ocean cannot keep pace
with these levels of emissions marine
life and marine ecosystems are facing an
existential crisis due to ocean
acidification caused by additional
amounts of carbon dioxide absorbed by
the ocean phytoplankton the primary
building blocks of marine life suffer
from
starter coat as the ocean waters become
more stagnant the global heat exchange
mechanism between the equator and the
poles is in danger of being shut off as
the gracious melt and more fresh water
is added to the ocean where’s talk about
ourselves to earth close to the ocean
the costs are the interface between the
land and the ocean they’re also the most
important habitat for marine life both
biologically and economically coastal
zones have very highly productive
ecosystems such as estuaries mangroves
salt marshes seagrass beds kelp forests
and coral reefs coastal zones are
immensely rich in marine biodiversity
fish turtles sea snakes concessions
sharks dolphins stingrays and manta rays
or on a few of the components of these
immensely diverse ecosystems coral reefs
and the rock called assemblages that we
have here in Pakistan have a very high
gross primary productivity which is why
there are hotspots of marine
biodiversity but these coastal
ecosystems are in a precarious balance
with themselves such that what is
produced is mostly consumed within the
system and the surplus is only
sufficient for limited sustenance
fishing large-scale commercial fishing
can fast deplete the key species and
degrade these ecosystems that’s why they
have to be carefully managed against
commercial overfishing and apart from
overfishing other human induced stresses
such as destructive fishing practices
and marine pollution also emanate and
transmit to the coastal zones there in
protected areas
protect marine biodiversity against
harmful human activities and ensure the
sustainable use of ocean resources they
protect the habitats and ecosystems
instead of the individual species the
Convention on Biological Diversity
requires at least aquatics members to
have at least 10% of the marine areas
and the coastal orkest occur as marine
protected areas by continually on
Pakistan the coastal worth of over 1,000
kilometers there’s not a single marine
protected area but creating their
integrated areas is not sufficient in
itself to protect the ocean and the
marine biodiversity unless they are
managed properly
in fact most MPs fail due to poor
management the management of NPS is an
extremely complex task requiring a focus
on a number of important factors such as
creating robust ecological and social
economic monetary regimes a resource
generation for sustenance of the MPA
intervention and most importantly
community involvement I will talk about
this last factor because this is the key
to our successful MPA coastal zones are
home to about one-third of world’s
populations cooperation which means that
coastal communities hold the key to our
oceans future but our local coastal
communities and after this new fishing
grounds are facing our deepening crisis
due to commercial overfishing and marine
pollution fish stocks are depleting
which forces them to fish even longer
and harder this dibbles the fish stocks
further and the fishing activity is fast
becoming one of diminishing returns
unsustainable development and
unregulated tourism has moved
lucrative for urban areas to our
operators and real estate developers and
they are being forced to give them up to
escape the spiral of poverty imposed
upon them twinkling fish stocks and
unregulated unregulated development I
properly
conceived marine protected area must
therefore aim to protect north only the
marine ecosystems but also the ranks and
to livelihood of the local coastal
communities last year I returned from
Africa Bravo’s working traveling diving
and observing the management of the
marine protected areas most of the
successful MPs in the developing
countries are but the local communities
have partnered with government or the
non-government stakeholders driving
around journaling in the southwest of
karate I realized that this biodiversity
of each horse sport was under immense
stress from marine pollution from
overfishing industrial activity energy
responsible mass tourism the island and
the coastal zone surrounding it are a
prime candidate for being a marine
protected area inaction would deprive
the area of its biodiversity and the
local coastal communities of their
livelihood turn our community consists
of five major coastal villages and all
of them to some extent depend on the
services generated by the island
ecosystem we decided to adopt a
community-based approach by creating a
network of community marine contrivances
which together form the channel
community marine protected area we set
up our first community-based marine
Conservancy earth bujji which is a
centuries-old fishing town in the
southwest of Karachi
the neighborhood here is an important
nesting ground for sea turtles and the
ocean for extracting several kilometers
in either direction is an assemblage of
corals on rock teaming with a variety of
marine life the community here is under
increasing urban pressure which catches
are twinkling and the commercially
important fish species are disappearing
yet each year a fresh crop of fishermen
joined the older family members in the
same vocation there are more than 200
fishing boats in the village but the
space to accommodate them on the beach
is fast shrinking as the community Argos
and the financial strains have given up
vast tracts of the beach to the cities
elites who have made fancy beach huts
which the users weekend getaways the
remaining tract of beach about 100
metres is used by the local fishermen as
the landing ground and when defers for
it it was littered with tons of marine
debris including plastics fishing nets
textiles plastic bags and a lot more the
local household discharged the Civic
directly into the ocean or on the beach
at the Conservancy our focus has been on
tackling the problems of overfishing
marine pollution and destructive fishing
practices of a main challenge has been
to focus to concentrate on financial
resource the narration because the
protected area is designed to be self
sustainable we had to develop ecological
monitoring mechanism and most
importantly create an alternative to our
herd scheme for the local community
which will be scalable and which would
provide sufficient incentive to the
community youth to prefer it over
fishing
so we have created an elaborate
ecotourism infrastructure in the village
the ecotourism infrastructure includes
an eco-lodge
a world sport center a parody scuba
diving center a cafe a restaurant at the
coffee shop all managed by the locals in
addition we have focused on GU economy
projects which redirect the traditional
skills and crafts of the local
communities such as fishing net repairs
and port building skills into producing
commercially viable products fishing
nets and marine hoops are now turned
into fashion accessories which are
marketed as high-end artworks the
salaries from the nearby gaff Danny ship
breaking yard is value elite to create
home accessories we have also trained
the community youth as scuba divers and
as Marine Park Rangers to help us
retrieve Marine Whitaker from inside the
ocean and to help us also in visitors
management one of our main focus is on
prevention of the impacts of marine
debris into the ocean by creating social
barriers against vectoring through
education and awareness we have a
comprehensive education program in place
known as environmental conservation
education and awareness program or a
sheep in short which also provides a
platform for interaction between the
local communities and the
conservationists from other strata of
society after Arg marine con with
Conservancy we are now poised to suck up
to more conservancies act to more
villages
together these three Khan’s offenses are
going to form the Channel Island marine
protected area which will effectively
provide protection over 100 square
kilometers of Marion area
[Applause]
under these circumstances and the
environment in which we live I believe
that this is the way forward we have to
protect our ocean we intend to create a
network of marine conservancies along
the entire coastline in the next five
years at the moment we have taken over
the management of the blue economy
enterprise but the management will be
gradually her over to the locals and it
will only focus on providing technical
expertise and coordination of the
operational area management and by the
end of five years we intend to extend
the emic of protection the approximately
1,000 square kilometers of marine area
hopefully thank you [Applause]
an unprecedented crisis climate change
pollution multi-verse to us and thank
yous change are driving the ocean to the
brink the scale and magnitude of the
devastation is so colossal that might
with the normal functioning of a planet
for quite a long time
we humans have caused it the base
structure of the human economy that is
our human society there’s the economic
system is designed to externalize the
cost of growth and development to the
nature unfortunately this is something
that even Karl Marx could not foresee in
his otherwise brilliant critique of
capitalism but Marx lived on a different
planet one with far less carbon dioxide
in the air
no plastics in our ocean so where does
forgive Marx and we’re Responder over
what might happen if the ocean trips and
how to prevent that the earth behaves as
a single self-regulating system
comprised of physical chemical
biological and human components the
ocean performs critical functions in
maintaining the necessary conditions for
life on Earth ocean scientists a
gorgeous silver are rightly called it
the blue heart of the planet this Fraser
stuck with me for quite a long time as
the most apt description of the pace of
the ocean in other planets system I
teach scuba diving now and my
interaction with the ocean is quite
intimate but on earth dr. Earle I came
to this realization to a very different
code as an earth space and
here and as a science fiction aficionado
I’ll always forward with great interest
the progress in space exploration and
the search for life beyond Earth drawn
to the vastness of space
and the fascinating works which I
thought right there I was brought back
to earth by these series of images of
first taken by Apollo 17 astronauts and
subsequently by satellites we all know
71% of the earth is ocean but here you
can actually appreciate that the earth
is an ocean planet and the ocean is Expo
heart the ocean regulates the planet’s
climate and explore habitability by
absorbing vast amounts of carbon dioxide
present concentrations of carbon dioxide
which is the major byproduct of fossil
fuel combustion responsible for ongoing
global warming are about 50 percent
higher than they have ever been in the
last at least 800,000 years and here
these would have been much higher had
the ocean not been absorbing vast
amounts of carbon dioxide over the past
200 years of human industrial activity
but the human activity has reached
fanatic levels and there are no signs of
it abating the ocean cannot keep pace
with these levels of emissions marine
life and marine ecosystems are facing an
existential crisis due to ocean
acidification caused by additional
amounts of carbon dioxide absorbed by
the ocean phytoplankton the primary
building blocks of marine life suffer
from
starter coat as the ocean waters become
more stagnant the global heat exchange
mechanism between the equator and the
poles is in danger of being shut off as
the gracious melt and more fresh water
is added to the ocean where’s talk about
ourselves to earth close to the ocean
the costs are the interface between the
land and the ocean they’re also the most
important habitat for marine life both
biologically and economically coastal
zones have very highly productive
ecosystems such as estuaries mangroves
salt marshes seagrass beds kelp forests
and coral reefs coastal zones are
immensely rich in marine biodiversity
fish turtles sea snakes concessions
sharks dolphins stingrays and manta rays
or on a few of the components of these
immensely diverse ecosystems coral reefs
and the rock called assemblages that we
have here in Pakistan have a very high
gross primary productivity which is why
there are hotspots of marine
biodiversity but these coastal
ecosystems are in a precarious balance
with themselves such that what is
produced is mostly consumed within the
system and the surplus is only
sufficient for limited sustenance
fishing large-scale commercial fishing
can fast deplete the key species and
degrade these ecosystems that’s why they
have to be carefully managed against
commercial overfishing and apart from
overfishing other human induced stresses
such as destructive fishing practices
and marine pollution also emanate and
transmit to the coastal zones there in
protected areas
protect marine biodiversity against
harmful human activities and ensure the
sustainable use of ocean resources they
protect the habitats and ecosystems
instead of the individual species the
Convention on Biological Diversity
requires at least aquatics members to
have at least 10% of the marine areas
and the coastal orkest occur as marine
protected areas by continually on
Pakistan the coastal worth of over 1,000
kilometers there’s not a single marine
protected area but creating their
integrated areas is not sufficient in
itself to protect the ocean and the
marine biodiversity unless they are
managed properly
in fact most MPs fail due to poor
management the management of NPS is an
extremely complex task requiring a focus
on a number of important factors such as
creating robust ecological and social
economic monetary regimes a resource
generation for sustenance of the MPA
intervention and most importantly
community involvement I will talk about
this last factor because this is the key
to our successful MPA coastal zones are
home to about one-third of world’s
populations cooperation which means that
coastal communities hold the key to our
oceans future but our local coastal
communities and after this new fishing
grounds are facing our deepening crisis
due to commercial overfishing and marine
pollution fish stocks are depleting
which forces them to fish even longer
and harder this dibbles the fish stocks
further and the fishing activity is fast
becoming one of diminishing returns
unsustainable development and
unregulated tourism has moved
lucrative for urban areas to our
operators and real estate developers and
they are being forced to give them up to
escape the spiral of poverty imposed
upon them twinkling fish stocks and
unregulated unregulated development I
properly
conceived marine protected area must
therefore aim to protect north only the
marine ecosystems but also the ranks and
to livelihood of the local coastal
communities last year I returned from
Africa Bravo’s working traveling diving
and observing the management of the
marine protected areas most of the
successful MPs in the developing
countries are but the local communities
have partnered with government or the
non-government stakeholders driving
around journaling in the southwest of
karate I realized that this biodiversity
of each horse sport was under immense
stress from marine pollution from
overfishing industrial activity energy
responsible mass tourism the island and
the coastal zone surrounding it are a
prime candidate for being a marine
protected area inaction would deprive
the area of its biodiversity and the
local coastal communities of their
livelihood turn our community consists
of five major coastal villages and all
of them to some extent depend on the
services generated by the island
ecosystem we decided to adopt a
community-based approach by creating a
network of community marine contrivances
which together form the channel
community marine protected area we set
up our first community-based marine
Conservancy earth bujji which is a
centuries-old fishing town in the
southwest of Karachi
the neighborhood here is an important
nesting ground for sea turtles and the
ocean for extracting several kilometers
in either direction is an assemblage of
corals on rock teaming with a variety of
marine life the community here is under
increasing urban pressure which catches
are twinkling and the commercially
important fish species are disappearing
yet each year a fresh crop of fishermen
joined the older family members in the
same vocation there are more than 200
fishing boats in the village but the
space to accommodate them on the beach
is fast shrinking as the community Argos
and the financial strains have given up
vast tracts of the beach to the cities
elites who have made fancy beach huts
which the users weekend getaways the
remaining tract of beach about 100
metres is used by the local fishermen as
the landing ground and when defers for
it it was littered with tons of marine
debris including plastics fishing nets
textiles plastic bags and a lot more the
local household discharged the Civic
directly into the ocean or on the beach
at the Conservancy our focus has been on
tackling the problems of overfishing
marine pollution and destructive fishing
practices of a main challenge has been
to focus to concentrate on financial
resource the narration because the
protected area is designed to be self
sustainable we had to develop ecological
monitoring mechanism and most
importantly create an alternative to our
herd scheme for the local community
which will be scalable and which would
provide sufficient incentive to the
community youth to prefer it over
fishing
so we have created an elaborate
ecotourism infrastructure in the village
the ecotourism infrastructure includes
an eco-lodge
a world sport center a parody scuba
diving center a cafe a restaurant at the
coffee shop all managed by the locals in
addition we have focused on GU economy
projects which redirect the traditional
skills and crafts of the local
communities such as fishing net repairs
and port building skills into producing
commercially viable products fishing
nets and marine hoops are now turned
into fashion accessories which are
marketed as high-end artworks the
salaries from the nearby gaff Danny ship
breaking yard is value elite to create
home accessories we have also trained
the community youth as scuba divers and
as Marine Park Rangers to help us
retrieve Marine Whitaker from inside the
ocean and to help us also in visitors
management one of our main focus is on
prevention of the impacts of marine
debris into the ocean by creating social
barriers against vectoring through
education and awareness we have a
comprehensive education program in place
known as environmental conservation
education and awareness program or a
sheep in short which also provides a
platform for interaction between the
local communities and the
conservationists from other strata of
society after Arg marine con with
Conservancy we are now poised to suck up
to more conservancies act to more
villages
together these three Khan’s offenses are
going to form the Channel Island marine
protected area which will effectively
provide protection over 100 square
kilometers of Marion area
[Applause]
under these circumstances and the
environment in which we live I believe
that this is the way forward we have to
protect our ocean we intend to create a
network of marine conservancies along
the entire coastline in the next five
years at the moment we have taken over
the management of the blue economy
enterprise but the management will be
gradually her over to the locals and it
will only focus on providing technical
expertise and coordination of the
operational area management and by the
end of five years we intend to extend
the emic of protection the approximately
1,000 square kilometers of marine area
hopefully thank you [Applause]
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