SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS - July 2000
Promote a public education campaign for the protection of coral reefs
Jean Michel Cousteau has made a short documentary about the value and fragility of coral reefs and the need to protect them. The film is entitled "Rainforests of the Sea" and Mr. Cousteau's NGO Ocean Futures is working to distribute the video. This video is being translated into six languages and Seacology has underwritten the distribution of this video so that it can be seen in villages throughout Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomons and Tuvalu.
UPDATE November 2003 - The name of the video has been changed to "Sustainable Reefs" and is part of a large outreach and awareness program in the South Pacific. The Ocean Futures Society is coordinating free distribution of the video, a syllabus and teacher's guide to schools, colleges, and satellite campuses of the University of the South Pacific.
