Last night I watched a beautiful film about Sharks, called Sharkwater (www.sharkwater.com). It was one of the most beautifully shot underwater films that I have seen in quite some time and highly recommend it to anybody out there. The film also highlighted the serous attention that ought to be paid to our planet's top oceanic predators--we have no idea what the impacts of loosing millions of sharks will have on the rest of the trophic levels below; this includes the phytoplankton and alga that produce a vast proportion of the oxygen that we breath.
On a final note, I was particularly struck by a comment made by the director of Greanpeace who said, "you have to bring people the story of the beauty of the world... to bring the story of the living miracle of life and show it to people."As conservationist and biologists, we have to remember this key aspect of our work that involves re-enchanting people with the awesome beauty of nature. Bringing people into the "story of the beauty of the world" is a key aspect in our endeavor as conservationists because it facilitates a unification of our sentiments and emotional bodies. This then becomes a force that can be transmitted, passed between people, and amplified intergenerationally.
How can we live our life as messengers of the world's beauty?
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