Saving the Oceans - Part Three
Discovery
BBC
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We look at the impact of climate change, overfishing and pollution on marine eco-systems and examine the scientific solutions to some of those issues. Presented by Joel Werner from the Australian broadcaster ABC Radio National, the series focuses on the improvements both for marine life and the people who depend on oceans for their livelihoods.
In the third programme Joel looks at how data analysis has helped reduce deaths of seabirds caught up in commercial fishing operations. He hears how the same operations may have also had an evolutionary impact on the birds. He looks at the effects of a plague of coral eating starfish on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. And he hears how undersea volcanic activity near Papua New Guinea is providing clues about the future direction of ocean climate change.
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| 0:47.0 | The Southern Ocean is their normal range. |
| 0:53.0 | It's the vast featureless ocean. |
| 0:57.0 | There's no bounds to the albatrosses. |
| 1:00.0 | There's 22 species of albatross globally |
| 1:02.0 | and New Zealand has 12 of those species nesting here and a really high proportion of them 100% of the New Zealand ones are threatened with extinction. |
| 1:10.0 | So they're a really important group internationally for us to look after really well. |
| 1:14.0 | I have your attention please, that anyone has been on the boat before. |
| 1:18.0 | On the boat we use a clock system for calling the direction of the birds are coming from. The pointy end is 12 o'clock, |
| 1:27.0 | the back end is 6 o'clock. |
| 1:30.0 | Hi, I'm Joel Werner and you're listening to Discovery from the BBC World Service. |
| 1:37.0 | This is part three in the four-part series Saving the Ocean. |
| 1:41.0 | And this week we're examining some of the unexpected consequences |
| 1:45.4 | of human action on the marine ecosystem. From the fishing industry's devastating |
| 1:50.4 | impact on seabirds to sugarcane farming's potential to damage the Great Barrier Reef. |
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