Today I can finally share a passion project I’ve been working on together with
66°North and Ocean Missions
Combining science, education, and adventure, Ocean Missions is a non-profit organisation based out of Húsavík, Iceland, dedicated to research and raise awareness of the issues we’re facing with our Oceans. Operating on a 70-year-old wooden sailboat, the team gathers valuable information for both scientists and policy makers and seeks to spread awareness about marine life, plastic pollution and the Ocean’s health, with the aim of encouraging others to take action.
I feel lucky and proud to be a part of this amazing group of people that want to learn from each other, inspire and take action when it comes to these issues.This wouldn’t be possible without the passion-driven people behind the project; Belen, Daniel, Heimir and Charla that have all dedicated their lives to the oceans.
While sailing around the coast of Iceland we witness the severity of the plastic pollution, which ranges from tiny micro-plastics in the ocean to large, abandoned fishing equipment on our beaches, everywhere. The scale of the problem is even larger than I would have imagined.
The oceans concerns all of us. It’s important to Iceland with whales returning every summer to their main feeding ground. We are just a tiny part of nature. We belong to it, and we need to protect it - not exploit it.
Filmed by the talented: Cathrine Cort Koppel
#Iceland #OceanMissions #66North #Sustainability #PlasticPollution
4 дек 2021
