Free movie screening in celebration of World Oceans Day |08 June 2018

As a large ocean state with an EEZ of over 1.3 million square km, Seychelles is seizing the opportunity to celebrate World Oceans Day today with a free public screening of the movie ‘A Plastic Ocean’.

The film will be screened at 4.30pm today at the Deepam Cinema. It is open for free to all members of the public.

The documentary reveals the newest science that demonstrates how plastics entering the oceans break up into small particulates that enter the food chain, attract toxins like a magnet and eventually end up being consumed by us!

The event, organised by SYAH (a youth-led NGO promoting sustainable development projects) in collaboration with the Blue Economy department and the Deepam Cinema, exemplifies NGOs, public and private sectors acting collectively to save our oceans.

Together, we need to cultivate the sense of value, preservation and sustainable use of the ocean at the heart of our citizens. Come and support this event to help us create a momentum to make a brighter future for our ocean. Let us protect the blue heart of the world.

The ocean is a shared resource. It is our present and our future. The ocean is not constrained by national borders. The ocean has no limits. Through the flow of ocean currents, wind and the migration of sea creatures, the use of the sea in one corner of the world eventually influences and impact seas and countries in other regions of the globe.

Following a United Nations General Assembly resolution passed in December 2008, June 8 has been officially recognised by the United Nations as World Oceans Day. Consideration for the concept of a World Oceans Day had been proposed as far back as 1992. The present international recognition demonstrates a monumental stride by the world to recognise the importance of our oceans.

World Oceans Day is a global day of ocean celebration where people from across the world honour the ocean. People, from all sectors of society, collaborate to raise awareness on protecting and promoting the sustainable development of this shared resource for a better future.

Contributed by SYAH-Seychelles