The ocean regulates all life on our planet, without a healthy and functioning ecosystem like the great barrier reef, all life on our planet are faced with inevitable disastrous outcome, including humans. The cumulative effects from coral bleaching, illegal fishing, oil spillage, and coal mining is affecting the reefs ability to recover from serious disturbances, predicted to become more in the future. Even though the reef is under continued threat from climate change and industrialisation, it is not too late - the Reef can recover in the right conditions and with time. But an expansion of the coal industry will accelerate dangerous climate change and cripple any chance the reef has of repairing itself.

One of the most serious issues facing shark populations today is over-fishing. 73 million sharks are killed every year, primarily for its fins, which is used for making soups and other various "health" products, despite having zero scientific research to back it up. Declining shark numbers can have serious consequences for our oceans ecosystem. Sharks are a vital part of the food chain, their predatory nature helps to keep populations of their prey species in check. Without sharks to help maintain a healthy balance, marine environments are at great risk of permanent damage.

Whales face a greater number of threats today that at any stage in their past. Climate change, capture in fishing nets, widespread plastic pollution, underwater noise pollution and ship strikes threaten our ocean giants. Even though commercial whaling was banned in 1986 under the IWC's moratorium, several countries continue to kill whales to this day. Since the ban on whaling, some whale populations have slowly started showing signs of recovery, however not all. Despite decades of protection, blue whales remain at about 2% of pre-whaling levels

Throughout our world’s oceans lurks a silent killer, plastic. More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped in our oceans every year. Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales, and other marine mammals, and more than 1 million seabirds die each year from ocean pollution and ingestion or entanglement in marine debris. Plastic, is not only harmful for our oceans, plastic toxins that ends up in fish, also ends up on our plate, which eventually ends up in our body.