Racing Extinction Whale Sting Endangered species ordered for dinner used body cameras Hump Restaurant Selling Whale Meat (Santa Monica) Gobi Desert (Mongolia) 4 stories about extinction National Geographic Magazine Mass Extinction - What if it is going on right now? 1 in a million species should go extinct each year naturally Next few decades 1000 times faster than it should be In 100 years we could lose up to 50% of all species biggest story in the world Blue Whale Largest animal on the planet ever Down to only to 2% of their numbers we can save them Hit by ships decimating them Show people their beauty maybe we can save them Loudest song in the animal kingdom below our threshold of hearing (hidden world) Found a buoy - $500 reward Christopher Clark Cornell University Like finding a message in a bottle Record sounds See it but couldn t hear it. Have to speed it up to hear Sound can be heard around the world We have stopped listening Hawaiian o o Bird Singing for a female He is alone / last male of the species Mate for life sing duet Male song / no response Last male singing for a female who will never come Bird is now extinct - 1934 5 Major extinctions Ordovician / Devonian / Permian / Triassic - Jurrasic KT Boundary dinosaur extinction (65 mya dinosaurs go extinct due to asteroid) Now - Anthropocene time of humans We are the asteroid (6 th extinction) Obama talking with Japan over whaling again Protesters 100 people shut down Hump restaurant one night 1 man (Audi Gill) actually shut them down Colorado activist quit job to save endangered species (Shawn Heinr) Whale Shark Killing them Now they are swimming with them more money Friend Paul Hilton Photo Journalist Sharks survived 4 mass extinction events
Cut down their numbers by 90% Nurse Shark with all its fins cut off trying to swim Walmart of endangered species trade in Hong Kong Biggest processing of illegal animal trade Tried to get in before threatened chased away Heather Rally, Charles Hambden Acted like Culinary tour Wanted to buy exotic meats (sea food) Chinese / Asian traveler want something more exotic Owner says we use the whole part of shark Shows worm believe it cures cancer a lot of beliefs by Chinese Down the road biggest area of shark fins on rooftop Dive off Galapagos Islands Giant Whale shark / dolphins / fish / whales / turtles Underwater photography documenting what is there now Early pics panoramic view of reefs 1989 went back barren What happened here? Effects on ocean Direct change by man pollution, habitat destruction Global Climate change another Common factor in all extinctions a spike in carbon dioxide Adding carbon dioxide quickly 4.9 million barrels spilled in Alaska only ¼ of what U.S. uses in a day Making things better for us at expense of other wildlife Many ways to fix, can we do it quick enough? 1/3 to ½ absorbed by ocean creates carbonic acid sea more acidic Creature dissolve into ocean Massive death in ocean oyster farm (7-10 billion oyster larvae) One day 6 billion larvae die Change in food may have to eat other things Change your diet save the planet Become vegetarians less land converted into areas to raise food Cattle release methane by breaking down feed Methane more potent than Carbon dioxide 1.4 million cows Livestock causes more greenhouse gases than all of transportation Need to fight on all fronts China raising food - wildlife market operate early mornings hiding from cameras More endangered more in back rooms Manta rays found in bags 1 pup every two years
Manta Rays Found in areas where sharks were collected Fins can t be used in soup meat is pungent Gills were missing Herbal medicine folklore Replace sharks with Manta Rays Bali one Manta with hook and line Shawn removes line and hook Manta realized he wanted to help Filming Oil rigs Methane cameras Our generation may be last to decide on what happens to the planet Anthropocene in our own hands Miniature organisms in ocean Plankton ½ of oxygen produced Lost 40% of plankton in last 50 years Animals on land only exist because of plankton Processing Plant Mr. Lee biggest taker of sharks in world Taking big 3 Whale, basking and shark Protected by Cites (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) Best quality- no sample need to test Sell 10 tons to Italy every year Export by smuggling Tour looked at processing plant Press release to World s media went viral Moving in right direction need to be proactive China destroying planet? West already did this earlier China going through same growing pains We only had 1 billion people on planet China now has 1.4 billion people in China Can t make same mistake Froglab 7000 species of amphibians Joel Sartore photographer of animals in captivity Only national exposure to their loss
Fairbanks Alaska Permafrost is melting trees falling into lakes Vast amounts of frozen methane under ice Being released due to climate change Permian extinction 90% of all life died May have been methane To reduce methane release / reduce carbon dioxide Oil companies see benefit less frost we can get to more oil Manta Rays Lamakara Indonesia More Manta rays killed than anywhere else on planet Sale cartilage, gills, fins, - know they should stop but it is only livelihood No agriculture On hunting boat caught Manta struggled for life for an hour Stabbed it in brain went limp Taken back to village Armada of boats out to area where the Manta was caught Supply chain out to china full on commercial outfit Mantas destroyed in a few years They know numbers are dropping something has to change Children will have nothing left Jane Goodall In 200 years people will look back and ask how did those people let all those animals disappear Need to educate be better stewards Can t lose hope still a lot left worth fighting for Beijing Dolphin 20 years ago 200 left somebody will save them They are extinct today we all think there will be somebody else to save them Florida Grasshopper sparrow From 200 to 20 phase out (zookeeper term when they are not viable) Large species hard to phase out but what about a small brown bird? Photo on Audubon went from 30,000 dollars to 1.3 million dollars spent Photography TV everything now seen in a box Travis Trekele Blow up box projections on iconic buildings United Nations headquarters Sharks on Wallstreet 80% of all gases by commercial bldgs. Empire state bldg. Greened it - save 4.4 million dollars a year
Mobile projection Race car driver Leilani Munter No sponsors that are not green Many said if she was an environmentalist she would race a bike She answers by saying she wouldn t have the audience Enlon Musk Tesla Electric cars Equipped car with projector and sound Take car on road bring nature to city Ran Test run projected on business stopped by Shell Security Bangkok Thailand many species need protection Cites 2013 Meeting Get Manta Rays on docket after 4 year campaign Inclusion of Manta Ray on Appendix II Accepted by U.S., South Africa, European Union China opposed Adopted by Cites Lamakara Indonesia Show them alternatives now illegal to hunt Manta Rays Project show on how they can go from hunting to ecotourism Pictures of village Convert hunting culture into tourism culture Kids are going to be guides of the future It is really up to them Driving Streets Projecting images on buildings People stop to take pictures We can make a difference As we face more animal extinctions We need more indomitable spirits to lead us to slow extinctions Need more people to realize it is worth doing Small choices we make today can lead to the world we want for the future United Nations Headquarters, New York Visions and sounds on buildings Crowd forms to take photos Show species going extinct Japanese Reverend, Better light one candle than curse the darkness Many say why bother? Candle means something with that one candle someone with another candle will find you That s how movements are started.