The South African documentary The Knowledge of the Pieuvre received the Oscar for greatest documentary, on Sunday, April 25 in Los Angeles. It tells the story of a snorkel diver and an octopus in Cape City’s False Bay. The assembly between man and octopus takes place in a kelp forest. These are massive algae that may attain 60 meters in top and are house to a wealthy ecosystem. With the knowledge of the octopus, the movie group needs to advertise this little-known setting to higher defend it.
as reported from Johannesburg, Romain Track
There are those that solely see algae, blackout curtains that conceal wildlife underwater after which there are the members of the Sea Change mission which incorporates Pippa Ehrlich, co-director of the documentary The Knowledge of the Octopus.
“These are massive carbon traps, they’re the habitat of a number of million species, a few of which may solely survive contained in the kelp forest. In addition they defend our coasts from storms, she explains.
The members of the Sea Change mission named this ecosystem the Nice African Marine Forest to make it a world icon. If issues are going fairly nicely in South Africa, that is an exception, warns Pippa Ehrlich
“Kelp forests are disappearing all around the world. They’ve been described because the second most weak marine setting to local weather change. They cowl about 25% of the world’s coasts, however in areas comparable to Tasmania and California, total kelp forests have disappeared in a couple of years, Pippa Ehrlich explains.
The Sea Change collective calls for an growth of the marine protected areas, which at the moment cowl 5% of South Africa’s marine area.
For his half, President Cyril Ramaphosa encourages the interpretation of the documentary into a number of native languages and its dissemination in faculties.
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