What’s next in the #fightforthebight [#geekgirl]
Equinor’s controversial, deepwater and high-risk drilling plans in the Great Australian Bight Marine Park will endanger Australian sea lions, southern right whale nurseries and our pristine coastlines. An an oil spill in the Bight will put all this at risk and be a catastrophe.
Feb 24th, 2020. UPDATE::Equinor has decided NOT TO drill in the Bight. A victory for marine life and the environment!
Untrashing #Djulpan: A @SeaShepherd_Aus film and #Marine #Debris #Campaign [#geekgirl]
Untrashing Djulpan – A Sea Shepherd Film “Ŋilmurru bukmak djäka wäŋawu – All of us together, looking after country.
In 2018, Sea Shepherd joined forces with the Dhimurru indigenous rangers of North-East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory for a remote marine debris clean-up mission.
Djulpan is a remote beach, far from any town or city. It is a culturally significant place for the Yolngu people and an important nesting ground for turtles.
However, for the past decade, the Dhimurru rangers have been faced with an increasing tide of plastic pollution arriving on their coastline.
Together, the team’s plan was to remove as much plastic from the beach as possible but what they uncovered was the sad reality of plastic pollution today.
‘Untrashing Djulpan’ tells their story.
Premiering September 2019.
—- Sea Shepherd is an international, non-profit marine conservation organisation that engages in direct action campaigns to defend wildlife, and conserve and protect the world’s oceans from illegal exploitation and environmental destruction.
Learn more Sea Shepherd Australia: https://www.seashepherd.org.au
aqua_forensic: The Invisible Danger in the World’s #Oceans [#geekgirl]
Invisible and yet threatening. The EMAP/EMARE project “aqua_forensic” by Robertina Šebjanič and Gjino Šutić is investigating human pollution in the oceans. It is the result of their residency at Ars Electronica. The second Open Call for a EMAP/EMARE residency runs until December 3, 2018.
“Monsters in the Waters”!
Source: Ars Electronica.
Sounding the #Sea Symposium – HULL UK, June 15-16 – the #future of our #oceans [#geekgirl]
Join scientists, artists, poets and historians to celebrate our cultural, historical and scientific connection to the ocean in Sounding the Sea, a two-day symposium organised by Invisible Dust and Steven Bode, at Ferens Art Gallery and The University of Hull, 15th – 16th June.
Notable rpesenters will discuss a wide variety of topics such as: the critical importance and health of our oceans, climate change, catastrophes such as tsunamis and earthquakes, bioluminescence and deep sea marine life, Hull’s maritime history, marine plastics, rising sea levels and our myriad of cultural connections to the sea.Through a combination of thought provoking talks, participatory workshops, artist performances and film screenings will take you on a journey to explore our oceans. The symposium offers opportunities to delve into and discuss a wide variety of issues, many of which are of critical importance to the health of our oceans, and to all of our futures.
Tickets via Eventbrite
Invisible Dust are organisers of the Symposium, their mission is to encourage awareness of, and meaningful responses to, climate change, air pollution and related health, technological and environmental issues. It achieves this by facilitating a dialogue between visual artists, creative technologists and leading world scientists. Invisible Dust strives, through its creation of high impact and unique arts programmes, alongside developments in new technology and scientific theories, to create an accessible, imaginative and approachable forum and stimulus.
Source: Invisible Dust