LOVELY SEA PLANET.
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The Oceans provides air, food & water. The marine environment needs to be protected and safeguarded. To protect this ecosystem, more understanding needs to be gained about the marine environment. It is require to work towards the oceanic scientific knowledge and research. Sharing Information about the riches of the seas, keeping an eye on the state
of the oceans and marine life, developing ideas to protect and preserve the marine environment and use whatever can be discovered ‘down deep’ to better mankind’s life and future. As per Marine World Heritages' there are 43 marine ecosystems and biodiversity treasures. From the tiny to the Titanic, from the familiar to the undiscovered, the ocean offers a stunning diversity of marine life and nearly every kind of habitat imaginable. Despite the names "Atlantic" and "Pacific," the ocean is one giant interconnected ecosystem. Life began in the ocean around 3.5 billion years ago and as evolution progressed, many species went extinct -- and some left behind fossils -- as others appeared. And even now, the ocean hasn't stopped changing as evolution continues and humans leave their mark. More than ever, the fate of the ocean is in our hands. We must know about different threats to the ocean and its organisms, successful conservation stories, and what we can do to help. When thinking of "human connections" with the ocean, most people would think about pollution or over-fishing. But humans are also explorers and scientists, artists and writers. The ocean provides the air we breathe, food we eat, and water we drink. Just as we need the ocean, the ocean needs each one of us. Over 17,000 species thrive in the deep sea where no light penetrates the ocean waves? Or that an old restaurant menu can teach us about the history of fish populations? Or that there are 38,000 different kinds of microbes in a liter of seawater? These were all discoveries made by the Census of Marine Life, a 10-year international effort that assessed the diversity (how many different kinds), distribution (where they live), and abundance (how many individuals) of marine life. The effort brought together unprecedented amounts of information on marine species into databases that provide a ‘phone book’ of sorts for the ocean. During the decade of the Census of Marine Life, more than 6,000 potential new ocean species were discovered by the roughly 2,700 participating scientists from more than 80 countries. Census scientists searched the global ocean to learn more about species as large as the blue whale and as small as a zooplankter or microbe. They sampled from the world's coldest regions to the warm tropics, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents to coastal ecosystems. They tracked the movements of fish and dug up studies from long ago to learn what the ocean used to be like before the influence of humans. And, of course, the scientists also used this information about the past and present to consider what the future holds for the ocean. The scope of the Census of Marine Life was unprecedented and inspired authors and artists to tell its story. Humans may not be able to breathe underwater but they still hugely influence the ocean, especially along coastlines, where over 600 million people live. Even more people rely on the ocean for fish, recreation and beauty. Most of the ocean is very difficult for humans to reach and explore. Coastal shallow areas are relatively easy to access, but these continental shelves that extend from the shorelines only make up ten percent of the ocean. Five Census projects explored the hard-to-reach areas of the ocean: continental margins (the point where the continental shelf slopes down to meet the abyssal plain), the abyssal plain (the muddy seafloor past the continental slope), the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (part of the longest mountain range on the planet), and the once unsuspected ecosystems that thrive on chemical seeps and whale falls. The "AIM of Lovey Sea Life" is to provide link between the people who are sea related professionals and the people who watch the sea from the shore and in TV. Hope Lovely Sea Planet will successfully provide a platform for sharing knowledge.
