Burning fossil fuels contributes towards damaging climate change and Arctic sea ice melting. But their extraction through deep sea oil drilling causes immediate and direct threats to marine wildlife and the wider environment.

Monster fishing vessels are plundering our oceans using destructive fishing methods and harming marine wildlife. Overfishing, bycatch and trawling are destroying crucial and irreplaceable habitats.

Climate change is making our oceans warmer and more acidic. These new conditions are forcing creatures to move further to find food and are driving them to extremes, pushing them towards extinction.

Sea mining companies are plundering the seabed for materials, destroying mysterious deep sea ecosystems that we know less about than the surface of the moon.

A truckload of plastic ends up in our ocean - Every. Single. Minute. And the problem is getting worse. Plastic pollution is suffocating and killing marine ecosystems around the world.

In 2021 at the UN negotiations, world leaders are coming together to discuss a Global Ocean Treaty, an agreement that would make it possible to protect oceans outside of national borders from human exploitation by making them ocean sanctuaries. But this will only happen if millions of us rise up to protect our blue planet.

Scientists tell us that if we are to avoid the worst effects of climate change and safeguard wildlife, we need to protect at least 30% of our oceans by 2030.