[Applause]
[Music]
Very good afternoon to all
you come from the sea
I come from the sea life was born in the sea
and I had the fortune at 4 years old
from the hand of my parents to put a
mask for the first time and being able to discover
with my own eyes what was below
of that great body of water that is the one
it gives color to our planet and how
not to marvel and in my case to fall in love
of that underwater world which I started to
know and discover with their colors
unimaginable
with its forms
impressive then over time to the
seven years I could get a tank
bait
and in my voyages in the sea I discovered
that there were flying fish and birds that
dive
I could also observe those sharks
that many people have panic with their
open mouth letting some little fish
little ones will clean their teeth
I also had the fortune of being under
of water with dolphins with those looks
Inquisitors are very rare
beautiful but also with these
whales of the ocean the whales
humpback humpback whales
they arrive every year to our shores
Colombian and that come from the
Antarctic making the most migration
big animal kingdom these big
marine mammals feed on the
smaller species that are the
plankton this plankton that is also
beautiful when seen in microscopes
and that a large part of these animals are
those that produce
half the oxygen that we
we breathe
at age 19 I became an instructor
of diving because what I wanted was
be under water
and I started working as an instructor
diving I started to take my tourists to
my clients to dive in Colombia for
several places in the world but once I heard
I was on the island of Gorgon that
Colombian island also in the Pacific
the Colombian I heard I heard they said
over there there is an island that is
full of sharks and I full I want
go there and you can ride me in the second
journey of instructors and I came to this
site an oceanic island that is
500 kilometers west of buenaventura
They are approximately 36 hours
navigation to get to that island
whose walls descend to 4000
meters deep
but that’s where we started with my classmates
dive instructors to know each one
of the different sites we could
start diving and there I met you and there
I fall in love Again
I fell in love to see that the species in
this place they were not afraid they were coming
they did not escape to see the biodiversity
can see those big schools of
fish with their multiple colors as already
I said it but this was what really
I was shocked by these great schools of
hammerhead shark
some sharks that many will say u and what
danger what horrible thing to me in
this moment was when I thought god
exists
in
the different ideas which I had the
opportunity to go to malpelo
I could
have wonderful experiences but
I also had some horrible moments and
I had to see boats anchored on the
coral destroying the bottom but also
I found ships where their bridges
They were covered
of mutilated sharks
sea turtles
that we had to be permanently
taking out the water because they were entangled
either in plastic or fishing nets
all these images were really
shocking
tuna boats attached to the island
fishing in front of the tourists that
they were really impressed sweden
uy we are going to use and soon we will be
tucked under a network
sharks as I said mutilated and in
the streets of buenaventura those photos of
shark fins drying
it is at that moment that I say this can not
to be like this is time to act and it’s there
when I made the decision that I was going to fight
for that place
I had the opportunity in the year 92 of
be diving in the Caribbean and
meet with president gaviria and
the president if you like to dive
you have to go to malpelo the wine
I delivered all the signatures that were
collected over time for
that he will help me to make the area
come back a protected area was so
under the government of President Samper
the marine protected area became
a sanctuary of fauna and flora but
unfortunately when I entered
work there in the year 98 we did not have
budget that’s why I decided
found the malpelo foundation and others
marine ecosystems which I direct in the
currently and since 2009 the great support
of the malpelo patrimonial fund which
a great ally has been conservation
international and the fund for action
environmental and childhood
after a while you were diving
more than 10 15 years in the waters of
malpelo I had the best gift of my life
and it was
One day I was diving with my friend
sandra swim 40 meters deep and
I feel a presence nothing more and nothing
less than this great shark shark that
we had never seen it was a shark
5 meters
step over my friend sandra that is the
who is taking pictures there
and we both decided to chase him go
towards the depth
and when we get to a little bit more
deep we realized that there was another
and that’s where I say I want to know what
it’s about and they start some studies I wanted
know what shark was
out there in those same years in the year
2000 after having seen that shark
so beautiful I had the opportunity to leave
to South Africa by a national magazine
geographic whose cover was the jaws
of the white shark but inside
there was an article where there was a
sir that was called andrés arman that is
he called and he was touching his nose
shark and I fill that sir up
I have to go and meet and I went to
South Africa I was able to see the white shark in
its natural environment but I could also
know a technology with which
they were following these sharks in
that trip I also had the opportunity to
meet my son’s dad today my son
is 17 years old and always
as a child he accompanied me in my days
every time I went to the island to a certain
moment
in 2004 the four costa rica countries
panama colombia and ecuador signed the
agreement san jose where they committed to
fully protect your marine areas
protected and to ensure conservation
of the region at that time I became
in the
in charge of the scientific network of this
marine corridor of conservation
we made a first expedition
where I invited researchers
of the Galapagos Islands on the island of
coconut and came fred wheel
other very important people in the
means of sharks and marking and
this professional manages that also
before it was underwater hunter came to
help us install some devices in the
in sharks it is a harpoon to which
the tip is changed and the
waist is the way we can
follow them basically so that you
give an idea how it works, you get the
tag the shark
and this as far as it goes
swimming when it passes near
receivers that we have installed
under the water when he passes by the
day the shark number
and the date is recorded in that
apparatus that same device we
We could install not only in malpelo
but we also did it in the other
islands
from the eastern pacific region
tropical then we start
we did we made more than 40
scientific expeditions and
multidisciplinary where we have invited
researchers of several
from several branches some were in birds
others were in corals other in fish
endemic etcetera etcetera and we
since the foundation we focused on
dial with satellite telemetry and
acoustic different shark species
including the hammerhead
great whale sharks that is the fish
the ocean the devil blankets
silky sharks sharks
Galapagos and finally the monster as
we call it locally malpelo that was
that great shark that I had the fortune to
see for the first time alive that
he knew dead more wolf alive
and these are the movements of several of
the sharks we could see as they see
they move throughout the region
with all our companions
researchers from the region that is already
from mexico to chile we are
sharing our information and we have
could determine that these animals
they migrate and there is a great connectivity not
only between the islands but also
with the continent
also our studies have shown
that hammerhead shark populations
they have drastically decreased
thanks to all our studies
we have managed to support the
government to both national parks and
to the army and to different institutions
so that the protected area is more
large and recently in the year 2017
we expand again 27000
square kilometers we have a job
with panama and we have a job that
do obviously with illegal fishing
the last sharks that we
we marked in March of this year they were
Pregnant pregnant females and these
we can see that they migrated towards the coast
we went there and on the coast
basically where is the gulf of tribugá
the pacific chocoano
this beautiful area of mangroves
and here we find our area of
hammerhead sharks
you imagine finding the place
where baby sharks hammers
large we see in malpelo we
we found on that site and we have
started working with communities
precisely to try to save this
so important relict
but nevertheless
when we got there to the port to this
area of tribugá we saw with several
problems again you want to be
talking about building a port the
puerto de tribugá which might be
support the extinction of this species
critically threatened we find
plastic and micro plastic a problem
dramatic but another of our studies
shows the large mercury levels
that they have all these species of
sharks due surely to the
illegal gold mining that comes from
the mountains and that reaches the sea we are
destroying our planet
for the planet and colombia especially
it is a wonderful country with multiple
ecosystems a varied country with a
incredible biodiversity we are the country
with greater biodiversity per kilometer
square
we have a country like no other
where we lose this biodiversity that is
our natural capital we are fried
we are wrong
that’s why my invitation is that we continue
knowing, let’s continue investigating, let’s continue
exploring do not be afraid
these species that are there deserve
the same as we humans
because we are also living beings and
we are animals and not for fear we can
exterminate so my message is we have
a single planet where we can live and
this is our milky way just a
planet
so
how can we each of us support
to be better from bogota
from the mountains and see how our
behavior
it will be reflected in the middle
environment so I leave you simply
is this message where the vocation is
who is going to give your power we need
help from everyone to save our
planet thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
Very good afternoon to all
you come from the sea
I come from the sea life was born in the sea
and I had the fortune at 4 years old
from the hand of my parents to put a
mask for the first time and being able to discover
with my own eyes what was below
of that great body of water that is the one
it gives color to our planet and how
not to marvel and in my case to fall in love
of that underwater world which I started to
know and discover with their colors
unimaginable
with its forms
impressive then over time to the
seven years I could get a tank
bait
and in my voyages in the sea I discovered
that there were flying fish and birds that
dive
I could also observe those sharks
that many people have panic with their
open mouth letting some little fish
little ones will clean their teeth
I also had the fortune of being under
of water with dolphins with those looks
Inquisitors are very rare
beautiful but also with these
whales of the ocean the whales
humpback humpback whales
they arrive every year to our shores
Colombian and that come from the
Antarctic making the most migration
big animal kingdom these big
marine mammals feed on the
smaller species that are the
plankton this plankton that is also
beautiful when seen in microscopes
and that a large part of these animals are
those that produce
half the oxygen that we
we breathe
at age 19 I became an instructor
of diving because what I wanted was
be under water
and I started working as an instructor
diving I started to take my tourists to
my clients to dive in Colombia for
several places in the world but once I heard
I was on the island of Gorgon that
Colombian island also in the Pacific
the Colombian I heard I heard they said
over there there is an island that is
full of sharks and I full I want
go there and you can ride me in the second
journey of instructors and I came to this
site an oceanic island that is
500 kilometers west of buenaventura
They are approximately 36 hours
navigation to get to that island
whose walls descend to 4000
meters deep
but that’s where we started with my classmates
dive instructors to know each one
of the different sites we could
start diving and there I met you and there
I fall in love Again
I fell in love to see that the species in
this place they were not afraid they were coming
they did not escape to see the biodiversity
can see those big schools of
fish with their multiple colors as already
I said it but this was what really
I was shocked by these great schools of
hammerhead shark
some sharks that many will say u and what
danger what horrible thing to me in
this moment was when I thought god
exists
in
the different ideas which I had the
opportunity to go to malpelo
I could
have wonderful experiences but
I also had some horrible moments and
I had to see boats anchored on the
coral destroying the bottom but also
I found ships where their bridges
They were covered
of mutilated sharks
sea turtles
that we had to be permanently
taking out the water because they were entangled
either in plastic or fishing nets
all these images were really
shocking
tuna boats attached to the island
fishing in front of the tourists that
they were really impressed sweden
uy we are going to use and soon we will be
tucked under a network
sharks as I said mutilated and in
the streets of buenaventura those photos of
shark fins drying
it is at that moment that I say this can not
to be like this is time to act and it’s there
when I made the decision that I was going to fight
for that place
I had the opportunity in the year 92 of
be diving in the Caribbean and
meet with president gaviria and
the president if you like to dive
you have to go to malpelo the wine
I delivered all the signatures that were
collected over time for
that he will help me to make the area
come back a protected area was so
under the government of President Samper
the marine protected area became
a sanctuary of fauna and flora but
unfortunately when I entered
work there in the year 98 we did not have
budget that’s why I decided
found the malpelo foundation and others
marine ecosystems which I direct in the
currently and since 2009 the great support
of the malpelo patrimonial fund which
a great ally has been conservation
international and the fund for action
environmental and childhood
after a while you were diving
more than 10 15 years in the waters of
malpelo I had the best gift of my life
and it was
One day I was diving with my friend
sandra swim 40 meters deep and
I feel a presence nothing more and nothing
less than this great shark shark that
we had never seen it was a shark
5 meters
step over my friend sandra that is the
who is taking pictures there
and we both decided to chase him go
towards the depth
and when we get to a little bit more
deep we realized that there was another
and that’s where I say I want to know what
it’s about and they start some studies I wanted
know what shark was
out there in those same years in the year
2000 after having seen that shark
so beautiful I had the opportunity to leave
to South Africa by a national magazine
geographic whose cover was the jaws
of the white shark but inside
there was an article where there was a
sir that was called andrés arman that is
he called and he was touching his nose
shark and I fill that sir up
I have to go and meet and I went to
South Africa I was able to see the white shark in
its natural environment but I could also
know a technology with which
they were following these sharks in
that trip I also had the opportunity to
meet my son’s dad today my son
is 17 years old and always
as a child he accompanied me in my days
every time I went to the island to a certain
moment
in 2004 the four costa rica countries
panama colombia and ecuador signed the
agreement san jose where they committed to
fully protect your marine areas
protected and to ensure conservation
of the region at that time I became
in the
in charge of the scientific network of this
marine corridor of conservation
we made a first expedition
where I invited researchers
of the Galapagos Islands on the island of
coconut and came fred wheel
other very important people in the
means of sharks and marking and
this professional manages that also
before it was underwater hunter came to
help us install some devices in the
in sharks it is a harpoon to which
the tip is changed and the
waist is the way we can
follow them basically so that you
give an idea how it works, you get the
tag the shark
and this as far as it goes
swimming when it passes near
receivers that we have installed
under the water when he passes by the
day the shark number
and the date is recorded in that
apparatus that same device we
We could install not only in malpelo
but we also did it in the other
islands
from the eastern pacific region
tropical then we start
we did we made more than 40
scientific expeditions and
multidisciplinary where we have invited
researchers of several
from several branches some were in birds
others were in corals other in fish
endemic etcetera etcetera and we
since the foundation we focused on
dial with satellite telemetry and
acoustic different shark species
including the hammerhead
great whale sharks that is the fish
the ocean the devil blankets
silky sharks sharks
Galapagos and finally the monster as
we call it locally malpelo that was
that great shark that I had the fortune to
see for the first time alive that
he knew dead more wolf alive
and these are the movements of several of
the sharks we could see as they see
they move throughout the region
with all our companions
researchers from the region that is already
from mexico to chile we are
sharing our information and we have
could determine that these animals
they migrate and there is a great connectivity not
only between the islands but also
with the continent
also our studies have shown
that hammerhead shark populations
they have drastically decreased
thanks to all our studies
we have managed to support the
government to both national parks and
to the army and to different institutions
so that the protected area is more
large and recently in the year 2017
we expand again 27000
square kilometers we have a job
with panama and we have a job that
do obviously with illegal fishing
the last sharks that we
we marked in March of this year they were
Pregnant pregnant females and these
we can see that they migrated towards the coast
we went there and on the coast
basically where is the gulf of tribugá
the pacific chocoano
this beautiful area of mangroves
and here we find our area of
hammerhead sharks
you imagine finding the place
where baby sharks hammers
large we see in malpelo we
we found on that site and we have
started working with communities
precisely to try to save this
so important relict
but nevertheless
when we got there to the port to this
area of tribugá we saw with several
problems again you want to be
talking about building a port the
puerto de tribugá which might be
support the extinction of this species
critically threatened we find
plastic and micro plastic a problem
dramatic but another of our studies
shows the large mercury levels
that they have all these species of
sharks due surely to the
illegal gold mining that comes from
the mountains and that reaches the sea we are
destroying our planet
for the planet and colombia especially
it is a wonderful country with multiple
ecosystems a varied country with a
incredible biodiversity we are the country
with greater biodiversity per kilometer
square
we have a country like no other
where we lose this biodiversity that is
our natural capital we are fried
we are wrong
that’s why my invitation is that we continue
knowing, let’s continue investigating, let’s continue
exploring do not be afraid
these species that are there deserve
the same as we humans
because we are also living beings and
we are animals and not for fear we can
exterminate so my message is we have
a single planet where we can live and
this is our milky way just a
planet
so
how can we each of us support
to be better from bogota
from the mountains and see how our
behavior
it will be reflected in the middle
environment so I leave you simply
is this message where the vocation is
who is going to give your power we need
help from everyone to save our
planet thank you very much
[Applause]
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