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Protect the Ocean - a statement
Why is Oceanwell committed to protecting the oceans?
We humans are completely taking over the last undisturbed habitat on earth, the oceans. Unfortunately, this use is not sustainable. Despite the immense size of the oceans, we are already seeing large-scale and in some cases global impacts on the coastal and marine ecosystem.
Marine pollution and overfishing are the most prominent impacts, but new activities of exploitation are also being prepared by parts of the industry. Science and politics sometimes get carried away to legitimise these activities. One example of this modern exploitation culture is the large-scale industrial extraction of rare earths from deep-sea soils. What effects this extraction has on biological, non-biological and - via changes in ocean currents - climate processes, no one can foresee today. Nevertheless, parts of the industry continue to push ahead with the plundering of the oceans.
The precautionary principle, which is contained in the World Charter for Nature, in the founding document of the EU as well as in the Rio Declaration (Agenda 21), is often enough ignored or undermined. As long as it costs nothing to take this risk, this exploitative behaviour will exist.
Most of us cannot escape a certain co-responsibility for this (unfortunately) typically human behaviour.
Almost all people share responsibility for the plundering of the oceans because we have conditioned our consumer behaviour accordingly in recent decades. Therefore, it is important to initiate and support purely protective measures in addition to the principle of sustainable use of coasts and the sea.
This is the motivation behind our "Protect the Ocean" initiative. With it, we want to make a constant contribution to the protection of the oceans and coasts as directly as possible.
The pilot project in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa
The first project of "Protect the Ocean" started in 2015 and takes us to the people of Grand-Béréby in the southwest of the West African state of Côte d'Ivoire. Together with the villagers, the Ivorian initiators of the project and Oceanwell protect endangered sea turtles .
With 10 cents, the turtle conservationists of Grand-Béréby can ensure that three baby turtles reach the sea safely.
Recovery of ghost nets in the Baltic Sea
You want to support "Protect the Ocean"?
By purchasing a wooden turtle made by the Ivorian artist Koné, you can sponsor an endangered sea turtle.
In addition, 10 cents of every Oceanwell product sold will go to the initiative.
We are official partner of the CINEMARE Marine Film Festival
