How do you protect the Marine Environment?   Twenty Pioneers tell their stories

Marine Conservation: People, Ideas and Action – New Publication – Bob Earll

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The way we protect, manage and undertake conservation in the marine environment has been transformed over the last 50 years. Achieving change to avert the worst human activities is difficult, messy and seldom straightforward.   Twenty leading lights in their field – essentially pioneers – tell their very different stories in the chapters of this new book. They describe how they have made a difference and achieved huge changes over the prevailing status quo. From seahorses, sharks and seals to birds and whales, from protecting habitats and sites to seas and oceans. They have challenged the practices of the day trying to mitigate the damaging effects of humans on the marine environment. This is not a text book but it the story of the people who did the work before the text book could be written.

There is a foreword by Sylvia Earle, and interviews (chapters) with Roger Mitchell, Keith Hiscock, Sue Gubbay, Joan Edwards, Dan Laffoley, Callum Roberts, Jon Day, Keith Probert, Heather Koldewey, Sarah Fowler, Euan Dunn, Simon Brockington, Sue Sayer, Alan Knight, Paul Horsman, Chris Rose, Peter Barham, Bud Ehler and Elliott Norse. Put simply, the book describes the work of some remarkable people who, often in difficult circumstances, have made a difference.