Ocean Observations Biodiversity Video

A video by the Census of Marine Life about why we need to monitor biodiversity in the oceans and how it can be done using existing technologies on a global scale. For more information visit http://www.coml.org.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ocean
• biodiversity
• observation
• census
• marine
• life
• coml

[pyork2007]

The solution advanced in this video - technological monitoring - does nothing to mitigate climate change. This is an ad for a research grant or corporate project. It's pathetic. What's needed is to outlaw industrial fishing (and other harmful extraction industries), prohibit all CO2 release (causing climate change), and end the criminally negligent rape of the seas and water pollution. We need a massive change in how we think and live, not some electronics planted in an elephant seal.

[censusofmarinelife]

Ocean observations are a path to understanding. We can't measure the impact of global change unless we have a baseline for the biodiversity that exists today. By understanding the existing biodiversity we can understand the impact of change on it. From there we can craft plans that might be able to mitigate the impact of those changes.

[iLOVENATURE2011]

ive read somewhere that over a hundred of species reach extinction every second.... SCARY!... today its the dolphins, tomorrow it might be us!

[NatureOfAscent]

@pyork2007 The focus of the video is biological diversity. Biodiversity is integral to healthy ecosystems, sustainability, and to health. The problems we've created due to our past transgressions have forced us to take such measures, which can help in reversing biodiversity loss and help us understand how not to make the same careless mistakes again.

[britoca]

@pyork2007I agree with the moratorium on industrial fishing as well, but your renouncing of further knowledge on the world's vastest inhabitable environment is puzzling. The sea is there for us and it's changing fast. That we have to learn faster still is what this means.

[stmk0]

I wonder if the people who developed the graphics in this video came from the same school of the people who develop CCPs videos.

[anklebreaka03]

@pyork2007 hahaha! Yes....completely stop all fisheries and all release of CO2 into the air. While were at it lets just completely stop the usage of fossil fuels as well and over 95% of the cars in the world, mhm. Then we can all ride on our unicorns to imagination land we're we'll all live happily ever after.

The answer is not that easy my friend..

[quiz0walkthroughs]

i love it. everything about it just makes you wish the vid neva finishes, 5/5

[MasterTenku]

What is it about the documentary voice that makes me want to continue watching something I have no interest in. I watched an hour and a half of documentaries about the breeding habits of bee's yesterday...