This #MarineMonday 🌊 goes out to - #takingaction ✅ I feel happiest when I am in the ocean, and when I am contributing to marine conservation. It's all good and well tweeting, instagramming and talking about it.. but how can I, or you take action? I live over an hour a way from the coast, and work in marine science... Stupid right? 🤦🏼♀️ . We talk about reducing plastics in the ocean and our carbon footprint, for me personally I want to be doing what I can at the source, that I can control. That includes things like beach cleans, education and awareness, & changing my energy supplier to 100% renewables (which I have done) using the car less etc etc., but also I want to be out restoring the oceans because not only are we are losing our oceans ecosystems such as seagrass at an alarming rate, the ocean stores the most carbon! Seagrass accounts for 10 per cent of the ocean’s capacity to store carbon, it can also capture carbon from the atmosphere up to 35 times faster than tropical rainforests!! ⚡ If we don't protect and restore the seagrass beds & other ecosystems, the oceans ability to store carbon reduces and we lose amazing habitat in the process 😔 . Get me out in the ocean restoring and protecting seagrass beds please and mangroves and all of the others... This is why I have a 'side hustle'. Because as much as I am doing what I can already working for the environment in the environmental industry, I can do so much more than just sitting behind a desk. I can't wait to get back out there and be able to help marine charities and assist with on the ground, hands on conservation work because it's where I feel and am most fufilled 🐬 That is me taking action now, and in the future 💪 . #marinescientist #conservationwork #getmethere #seagrass #restoration #saveouroceans #bluecarbon #carbonsequestration #takeaction #whatareyouactuallydoing #snorkelling #greece #underwater #marinelife #oceanlover #sidehustle #workingonline #internetbasedbusiness #climatechange #marineconservation https://www.instagram.com/p/CFaDCFejG8I/?igshid=1d94d8qesuyib
