Vreni Häussermann, a 2016 Rolex Awards for Enterprise Laureate, is fighting to create and maintain marine protected areas off the Patagonian coast
Marine life in the Chilean fjords of Patagonia, an extremely biodiverse area, has been suffering from climate change and human activities.The Rolex Perpetual Planet initiative was launched in 2019, with the aim of supporting a vibrant and active network of individuals and organisations using science to understand and preserve the Earth’s sensitive ecosystems on land and in the water.
There are many secrets hidden down there. It’s our responsibility to explore what’s down in the ocean and to show people what we findWhat she’s seeing is like a snapshot of Earth’s ancient history. There are species of undersea animals here that have called these reefs home for millennia, and corals that exist nowhere else in the world.
Animals and plants, finely acclimated to living here over thousands of years, are dying off at a rapid rate. Every species is interconnected, and if one succumbs to climate change, a chain reaction can be set off that affects hundreds of others. This is the sad tale of how ecosystems collapse.
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