An octopus's garden
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The octopus is prized as the most intelligent of all marine species – immortalised in stories, poems and songs worldwide. In Madagascar it is also a vital source of income. Hazel Healy takes a journey into a pioneering Madagascan closure system which is enabling one particular species of octopus to flourish and protecting incomes for the most vulnerable. She learns how the system was first developed and how it is inspiring other coastal communities in Kenya and Indonesia. Hazel also learns how the success of the system has sparked greater support for ambitious marine management efforts more widely, including the creation of permanent marine reserves in Madagascar.
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| 0:00.0 | Life Less Ordinary is the podcast from the BBC World Service, |
| 0:04.0 | bringing you extraordinary personal stories from around the globe. |
| 0:08.0 | Search for Lives Less Ordinary, wherever you get your BBC Podcasts. |
| 0:15.0 | From the BBC World Service, I'm Hazel Healy, |
| 0:22.0 | and this is an octopus's garden for the documentary. |
| 0:26.0 | We are at the beach and there's this woman Fisher. |
| 0:32.0 | She noticed there's an woman Fisher. |
| 0:36.0 | She noticed there's an octopus in the cravics, and she squats at it. |
| 0:38.0 | She puts her hand inside just to be able to tell how deep it is. |
| 0:42.0 | She has... just to be able to tell how deep it is. |
| 0:43.0 | She has her stick that she will use just to lower it out, |
| 0:48.0 | but I think it is borrowed far deeper into the hole. |
| 0:52.0 | She puts the wooden stick to the sides and uses a hand. |
| 0:58.0 | And as I watch, I'm nervous. |
| 1:00.0 | Because I know sometimes you can get injured trying to battle with an intelligent |
| 1:07.0 | animal like an octopus. |
| 1:12.0 | You're on a remote reef on the east coast of Africa. |
| 1:17.0 | It's very hot here and too dry to grow most crops, |
| 1:21.0 | so you depend on the sea for everything. |
| 1:25.4 | Your grandparents and great grandparents were octopus fishers |
| 1:29.1 | and now you too know about this incredible cephalopod, about its |
| 1:34.4 | its wily ways, the rocky dens it hides in and how much you depend on it to |
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