OCEANS ON THE EDGE 8

Global Scale Sustainable Management

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

Key words:global sustainable endangered

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

• 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.

Copy and complete the following (words below to help)

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?