World Oceans Day 2009 is a powerful opportunity to bring local and global attention to the impact climate change is having on the ocean, what that impact will mean for ocean and human life, and how we can all make simple, important changes to reduce our CO2 emissions, halt climate change, and preserve our children’s ocean legacy. Helping make others more aware of the importance of the ocean in our lives, the opportunities each of us has to help through our daily actions, and by joining with people all over the world in celebrating World Oceans Day, we can make a real difference for our one one ocean, one climate, and one future!
Men unloading stacks of crabs from fishing boats in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador. 2005. Today on World Ocean Day (June 8), we honour the thousands of people around the world whose livelihoods depend on the seas and oceans.
This photograph is part of a series by Majority World photographer Daniel Patiño Flor, who spent two years documenting the lives of the community living on the islands in Ecuador’s Gulf of Guayaquil in the Pacific Ocean.
