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making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

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Welcome to the podcast of the Life Scientific.

My guest on the Life Scientific today is determined to protect our oceans,

from overfishing and from plastic pollution.

The challenge, she says, is not just saving our seas, it's saving our seas and ensuring

that the people who rely on them can still earn a living.

Heather Coldaway has spent much of her career saving sea horses

and has been involved in multiple marine conservation projects around the world.

She also ran the aquarium at London Zoo for many

years. She is an academic who's not content to sit back and just let the science speak for

itself. She wants to turn the science into action and has found allies in the

unlikeliest of places, working with a carpet manufacturer to turn old fishing nets into

carpet tiles and with Selfridge's department store to give marine

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