The Fight to Conserve Marine Life

"Save the Whales," the cry of environmentalists around the world may seem irrelevant to many. How can one person who may not live anywhere near an ocean make a difference? We, as two Midwest girls, are here to change your mind. We will be bringing you news, stories of tragedy and hope, as well as ideas to make a difference. We are here to fight for the fishies and all types of marine life.




Friday, April 30, 2010

Disney and Oprah - Spreading the Word


Recently, the new movie from Disney hit theaters. “DisneyNature Oceans” is a film that shows people the beauty of the life that they can’t see from land. (If you want to learn more about the movie, you can visit this website: http://disney.go.com/disneynature/oceans/) This website even lets you “get involved” and find ways to donate to causes that help marine conservation and related programs.

Now, to the point of the subject. It’s so refreshing to see a big film being released by an extremely well-known and well-loved company. And it’s really gotten the word out. It premiered on Earth Day. That day, Oprah had an Earth Day special and she had a segment about this specific movie. She also had the producers of The Cove as guests and also connected via Skype to talk to a guy that was out in the ocean, studying the plastic in the Pacific Garbage Dump. But anyway, it was really good that Oprah helped get the word out about the movie. She reaches many women and those women take what she says seriously. So if she says that the oceans need help or that a beautiful movie just came out showing us the life under water, people are going to listen. We need powerful people like this to get the word out about problems that need to be solved in our world and we also need them to give their seal of approval to things that can spread that word farther.

Now, I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I’ve heard so many rave reviews about it. So I’m planning to. And I think you all should too. Learn about a different kind of world from the one that we know. Learn about the animals and how they live and interact. Learn about all of the different plants and how they flourish and survive. Learn about the horrors that are keeping these life forms from reaching their full life potential. And learn how you can help stop these horrors. Because a world with land life and marine life both flourishing is better than one where only land life flourishing just because it was too hard for people to donate and recycle.

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