What is Marine Conservation? | How to Protect Our Oceans

Welcome to the Natural World Facts Awareness Project, a series explaining the importance of wildlife conservation, particularly marine conservation, and what you can do to help. I’m joined by Alex Collins, a fellow UA-cam wildlife enthusiast and biologist at the University of Bristol, who focuses on wildlife conservation.
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What is Marine Conservation?
Marine Conservation is the protection and preservation of ocean ecosystems, with a focus on limiting the damage caused to them by humans and preserving threatened marine species.
The main threats seen in our oceans are species loss, habitat degradation, and changes in ecosystem function. Human activities causing a rise in extinction rates has lead to a decrease in biodiversity, particularly in coral reefs, 88% of which are threatened by excessive CO2 emissions. These reefs are among the most important stores of biodiversity on the planet; it takes around 10 thousand years for a reef to form from coral polyps, and up to 30 million years for a reef to fully mature, hosting an estimated 25% of all marine life. Coral reefs are dying, as warming temperatures and stressful conditions bleach the corals white as they are forced to expel the colourful algae on which the coral depends for its survival.
Why is marine conservation important?
With the world’s oceans more under threat than ever, and with half of the world’s reefs having died in the last 30 years, Marine Conservation has never been more important.
Different species rely on each other. If one species is under threat, then so is another. This can have a chain reaction, until a whole ecosystem is under threat. We need healthy ecosystems just as much as the marine life, because without them, we’d have less food, less money, and less life on our planet. The bottom line is, life on Earth needs healthy oceans, and it's our responsibility to protect them.
How can we do this?
One method is to set up marine protected areas. This creates a safer environment for marine life, undisturbed by impacts of overfishing and noise pollution. Biodiversity has increased by 21% within marine reserves like these.
We also use artificial reefs, man-made structures built to promote marine life and growth of coral. Artificial reefs are successful in providing habitats for threatened wildlife, so allowing damaged ecosystems to recover, and the regeneration of valuable biodiversity within reef ecosystems.
As well as these strategies, we need to be careful in how we interact with the marine environment. Active demersal fishing techniques like trawling, where a net is dragged along the bottom of the ocean, destroys the seafloor, often containing ecologically important plant and coral species. Active pelagic fishing techniques, where a net is dragged through the open ocean, can be just as bad as it’s indiscriminate, so the nets catch anything in their way, regardless of whether the fishermen are looking for it. Thus protected animals like dolphins and turtles are injured or killed. For every 1 kilogram of prawns that are caught and sold, 9 kilograms of other animals are caught as bycatch, being injured or killed then thrown away.
Marine conservation efforts have been made to reduce destruction caused by these fishing techniques, either by reducing how often they can be used, or making the technique less destructive. E.g. specific fishing hooks are less likely to catch unwanted species.
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[@ShelbyOnSafari]

Awesome video guys! Well done highlighting the importance of protecting our seas. Do either of you have a favourite marine species? 💚🤙

[@NaturalWorldFacts]

Thanks so much Shelby :) and if I’d have to pick, it has to be the Greenland Shark. How about you? 💛

[@AlexCollinsWaC]

Tough question! I like sea snakes, amongst loads of other things of course

[@NaturalWorldFacts]

@Darius Fraser Very good choice 😉

[@charliemum]

I recently found your channel and i just wanted to say its great to see someone so passionate about our planet and the amazing creatures that share it with us. Its especially nice to see in someone so young, i wish more young people were interested in saving our planet, now a days they seem to be more interested in the dreaded tiktok and getting followers. (Its banned in my house!)
It really warms my heart to know there are still young people that are aware of what damage we are doing as a species and wants to try and fix it. I wish you all the success in the world and it isn't much but i am working my way through your vids and liking everyone, you deserve the recognition imo.

[@frostingfox8180]

I can only wish to be as educated about marine life as you! I’m very interested in keeping salt water fish but the very delicate balance that many salt water ecosystems have can be hard or even impossible to replicate in captivity. I find these balances extremely fascinating, and more importantly understand these ecosystems can help the organisms in the oceans.

[@AlexCollinsWaC]

great video Leo. I'm so glad how it turned out. Gets the series off to a nice start!

[@NaturalWorldFacts]

Can't wait to work with you again!

[@DidgeridooStudio]

It is my understanding that protection for invertebrates is sorely lacking, simply because we have only just begun to view their survival with the same understanding of their importance as we view that of vertebrates. For ages, it has not even occurred to us whether they can feel pain. So many species on which we depend for the maintenance of our planet's ecosystems, not least of all from our oceans, are invertebrates, and we can ensure their protection if we are willing to do the work.

[@NaturalWorldFacts]

Absolutely. Invertebrates are the foundation of nearly every ecosystem, the basis of many food webs, and yet still people don’t see their protection as important. Thanks again for a thought provoking comment, always gives me a lot to think about :)

[@DidgeridooStudio]

@@NaturalWorldFacts You're more than welcome, Leo. That's why I'm here. 😊

[@noodle0435]

You are speaking so good I'm not a native speaker but I could understand 70 percent of your words

[@NaturalWorldFacts]

Thank you, I’m so glad to hear that! I really hope you enjoyed :)

[@NaturallyCuriousUK]

Well done guys. Keep up the good work! Sounds like Alex has sorted out his audio issues 👍. More power to ya both! 👍😎👍

[@NaturalWorldFacts]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed 😁, it was great working with Alex

[@NaturalWorldFacts]

For the Pine Marten video on Alex's channel, the link is ua-cam.com/video/ylagnNzF2_c/v-deo.html

[@hasanjaafar6903]

Thank you for the efforts on the video

[@AnnaVarona]

I like you and how you present these ocean facts. 😊

[@spurthichadharam9144]

Thank you for educating us.. I think We can or should protect marine species

[@emeraldsoda4059]

Us humans are selfish and don't want to take responsibility. I hope more of us change, because if we don't, we won't be here anymore. If the ocean goes, everything else does too.
Currently doing research on how a citizen of a landlocked state can do their part, but unfortunately, being landlocked means very little resources.
Nice video. We can restore our oceans!

[@josiahwhit5730]

beutiful message

[@koliwada_fish]

Nice 👍I get more information about marine conservation

[@datuarifmanulon1835]

can I get permission from the owner to use this only for my project in school? pls, it is the most helpful video I have found. thanks...

[@NaturalWorldFacts]

Absolutely! I’ve no issue with that :)

[@datuarifmanulon1835]

@@NaturalWorldFacts THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[@NaturalWorldFacts]

No worries! Let me know how your project goes, I’d love to hear more about it :)

[@bernardeshun4725]

Great Videos Guys. Please can you make a video on Guitarfishes or assist with the creation of videos on these species.

[@coniferous4637]

Could we crate artificial reefs in different parts of the ocean that have slightly different ecological characteristics and then introduce certain keystone species to those artificial reefs for the sake of preserving at risk species?

[@singalong9111]

More videos about ocean.. marine species and there important 🥰

[@Kileplayz778]

nice

[@louielaruya5709]

So beautiful 🥰

[@bettymayen5731]

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[@purple_h3ert463]

You look like Carl

[@purple_h3ert463]

/Karl

[@s_university_blvd]

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