Each year, 400,000 cetaceans are destroyed. We are knowingly sentencing our brothers and sisters to extinction. Yet, our fate is inexorably linked to theirs.

My focus when I’m filming or taking photos is nature. I want people to see the beauty and importance of the very things that give us life, we are nothing without nature but nature is everything without us.

The Great Australian Bight is home to endangered pygmy blue whales, southern right whales and southern bluefin tunas. It’s an essential feeding ground for sea lions, great white sharks, migratory sperm whales and short-tailed shearwaters. 85 percent of all the marine species that are found in the Bight occur nowhere else on the globe.

The fate of our brethren, the highly intelligent and sensitive cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises), is very grim. The hideous man-made Sixth Mass Extinction is accelerating more than 1,000 times faster than the previous five others.

The Future Of The Ocean: A Positive View. The Five Biggest Impacts Facing Our Oceans, plus Five Easy Ways You Can Make A Difference.

Bill Fulton, Living Ocean Marine Research Director, Volunteers with Dr. Jen Lavers on Lord Howe Island to assist in assessing the impact of plastics in Shearwater populations. Living Oceans funds some of this research with donations from its members and trust funds…

Running your own business is no mean feat and doing it with a bub in tow is a whole ‘nother kettle of fish. So I can’t help but be in total awe of local mum and entrepreneur Anne, who not only started her cold pressed juicing business Prodjuice shortly after the arrival of her daughter, but managed to do this with an environmentally conscious stance.

I am so moved by the recent surge of interest within our local community to not only use less plastic on a day to day basis, but to change our approach to living, making more sustainable lifestyle decisions…

Sarah Tait is one of those wonderful people who just have a glow about them. She is a beacon of health, is always smiling and just generally radiates warmth. Overall there is this sense that she has got it together…

Plastic straw use is generating extreme waste for unnecessary convenience. In recent times we have come to expect straws in our drinks when we dine out (even though we rarely use them when we stay in). In the US alone more straws than there are people get thrown out each day according to the Last Plastic Straw.

I visited these two on a warm Saturday afternoon in August at the home of their beehives in Warriewood on Boondah Rd. We had so much to chat about that I will post an additional interview with Alex on her endeavour to promote op shopping and the reuse of clothing.

My name is Jake Parker. I am a photographer and videographer from Cameras for Conservation and as well as being a photographer on the Living Ocean Whale Research team.

Being a member of this team is truly an honour.

Saturday dawned bright and clear. Blue skies, light wind and minimal swell. A most perfect day to be out on the Ocean. The Living Ocean Marine research team led by Bill Fulton met on board MV SALT for our Humpback Whale Migration Research trial run and were thrilled when skipper Mark Farrell announced it was a perfect day to look for whales, so training would continue offshore.