[SEMCO] WDCS Ocean's Frontier screening - May 3rd MA Whale Awareness Day

[Robert Rocha]

Documentary Screening & Expert Panel Discussion

6:00pm on Thursday May, 3, 2012: Massachusetts Whale Awareness Day 

Maxwell Theater in Plimoth Planation's Welcome Center

Free tickets can be secured at www.whales.org

 

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society will offer the public a
complimentary screening of Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn Of A New Era in
Ocean Stewardship as a way to celebrate Massachusetts Whale Awareness
Day.   Securing the proclamation for Whale Awareness Day was only the
first step for WDCS, the most important part is to ensure that as many
people as possible recognize the  various species that live off our
coast and that everyone does their part to help eradicate the threats
that they face. After the movie experts will discuss the issues at hand
in our area and what individuals can do to help lessen the impact we
have on the whales native to our area.  Free tickets must be reserved
through  www.whales.org or through Plimoth Cinema at www.plimoth.org and
more information on how to support work to better the lives of all
whales and dolphins can be found at www.whales.org as well.

 

The myth of the boundless ocean is no more. But from the troubled waters
now rises a new wave of hope, of prosperity through preservation,
playing out in communities across the country and intimately captured in
the new film by Green Fire Productions, Ocean Frontiers. This
documentary and outreach campaign to inspire and mobilize audiences to
better care for the ocean, for the good of all. 

 

Ocean Frontiers takes us on an inspiring voyage to seaports and
watersheds across the country-from the busy shipping lanes of Boston
Harbor to a small fishing community in the Pacific Northwest; from
America's coral reefs in the Florida Keys to the nation's premier
seafood nursery in the Mississippi Delta. Here we meet an intermingling
of unlikely allies, of industrial shippers and whale biologists, pig
farmers and wetland ecologists, sport and commercial fishermen, reef
snorkelers and many more, all of them embarking on a new course of
cooperation, in defense of the seas that sustain us. 

 

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) is the world's most
active charity dedicated to the conservation and welfare of all whales,
dolphins and porpoises.  WDCS's North American branch is based in
Plymouth, MA; there staff, volunteers and interns conduct research and
work to protect whales from threats ranging from entanglements and ship
strikes to whaling and behavioral disturbance.  WDCS derives over ninety
percent of their funding from private support and dedicates an average
of eighty-three cents per dollar raised directly to programs that impact
change. Visit www.whales.org to learn more about how you can help as a
volunteer, advocate, or donor.  

 

For more information contact:

Karen Urciuoli 

508-746-2522 office 

617-501-7892 cell phone

karen.u at wdc.org

www.whales.org

 

 

 

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