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OCEANS ON THE EDGE 8 Global Scale Sustainable Management Key words: global sustainable endangered Starter: How can individuals make a difference to sustainable use of the oceans? Learning Objective: To be able to identify the role of global actions to maintain ocean health

Protecting endangered species Many species of whales were hunted almost to extinction during 20th century The International Whaling Commission banned whaling for commercial purposes form 1982. Since then it has establish whale sanctuaries in the Southern and Indian Oceans

International Whaling Problems with the IWC ban are; Japan continues to slaughter whales for ‘scientific purposes’ Norway objects to the whale sanctuary The Faroe Islands hunt around 1000 pilot whales each year; they argue it is an important part of their culture

Pollution 90% of all trade between countries is carried by sea. Watch this clip to see the effects of pollution from the Prestige oil spill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcd3FQ0DVRY

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Copy and complete the following (words below to help) The _____ oil spill in 2002 caused great damage to sea species along the _____ coast. UNCLOS set new _____ rules to phase out the use of single-______ oil tankers. Prestige international hulled Spanish

A more difficult problem ... Watch this video clip, then design a poster to make people aware of the problem of the Pacific Garbage patch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLrVCI4N67M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7vHrMsnRFA

And finally ... Who is going to be in the hot seat?