“Let’s Put the Ocean First”, UN Secretary-General said in a message for World Ocean Day, 8 June 2023, urging all to keep pushing for recovery, conservation, sustainable use of resources. ‘Humanity counts on the ocean. But can the ocean count on us?” Following on from recent global agreements to protect 30 % of the ocean – including the High Seas – and 30% of the land for stopping mass species extinctions, the UN motto for World Ocean Day 2023 was “Planet Ocean: Tides are Changing”.
Concert for the Ocean in Oostende, Belgium, 11 June
To celebrate World Ocean Day 2023, Mundus maris invited the cellists Sara Fontan Ferreira and Angelika Zolcsàk to perform works by Haendel, Falla, and Stravinsky, marine songs [...]
