Our Blue Planet: yesterday – today – tomorrow

The brochure shows the sea of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

• Published by the marine conservation organisation DEEPWAVE e.V.
• With illustrations by Anna Mandel
• Design Ina Saken
• Funded by the German Federal Environment Agency

The Ocean Primer

Not without a reason the earth is called “the blue planet”, because its surface consists of about 70 percent water, with the largest part being the sea. Far too few people are aware of how much we owe to the sea and how we can protect it. We do not know how rich the oceans were yesterday, how threatened they are today and how they could be again tomorrow. The Ocean Primer shows exactly this and provides possibilities to stop the negative developments with the help of effective projects.

Through the detailed and scientifically sound illustrations and the comprehensibly written texts, the work uses the example of some ecosystems – the North Sea, high seas, deep seas, tropical oceans and ice seas – to bring children in particular closer to the diverse world of the marine habitat and can thus bring about a rethinking for future generations.

The Ocean Primers are sent by us to schools and private individuals for a small nominal fee.

 

9 panels of the Ocean Primer have been hanging as large prints in the Nordseehalle des Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven.

PRESS RELEASE
Exhibition opening “The Sea Primer” at the Meeresmuseum Stralsund

Exhibition “The Ocean Primer” at the Meeresmuseum Stralsund

Opening December 4th at 11:00 a.m. in the special exhibition

“Our Blue Planet: yesterday – today – tomorrow”
the Ocean Primer of the marine conservation organisation DEEPWAVE e.V. with original illustrations by Anna Mandel.

Duration December 4th 2015 to April 17th 2016

Our earth, “the blue planet”, is covered to about 70 percent by the water of the oceans. But far too few people are aware of how much we owe to the sea. We do not know how rich the oceans were yesterday, how threatened they are today and how they could be again tomorrow. The marine primer “Our Blue Planet” by DEEPWAVE e.V., funded by the Federal Environment Agency and the Federal Environment Ministry, on the one hand shows the fascination of the oceans and on the other hand communicates effective projects in response to the current threats. The 36-page brochure is particularly lively due to the detailed and scientifically sound illustrations by the Hamburg artist Anna Mandel.

“As the illustrator of the Ocean Primer for students, I have always been aware of the responsibility of drawing these problems and effective ways of solving them in a clear and sensitive way. My main concern here is the message: to change our view of the oceans, to understand our planet as a blue planet and to be able to act out of newly acquired knowledge, because we still can”, says the illustrator Anna Mandel.

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The living environment of some ecosystems (the North Sea, high seas, deep seas, tropical seas and ice seas) is meticulously depicted yesterday, today and tomorrow. For example, 150 years ago rich shoals of fish and numerous harbour porpoises lived off the North Sea’s dune coasts, whereas today the increasing exploitation (gravel extraction, shipping, tourism, fishing) poses a serious threat to biodiversity. One solution tomorrow would therefore be more protected areas for fish offspring and rare animals. In tropical seas, which are even more threatened by pollution, the protection of mangroves and corals is of primary importance. For the deep sea and its fascinating creatures, it will be necessary to establish worldwide rules and large protected areas in the future.

The comprehensibly written texts of the book-like brochure are primarily intended to bring children closer to the diverse world of the marine habitat and to bring about a rethinking for future generations.

The exhibition will show the 13 large-format original drawings and the Ocean Primer texts, which were created by hand over a long period of time.

“It was an exciting collaboration between a biologist and an illustrator,” explains Hamburg marine biologist Onno Groß, chairman of the Deepwave association, which was founded twelve years ago and draws attention to the increasing environmental pollution of the oceans and even the deep sea. “It lies today in our hands the future of the seas to secure and for it we want to sensitize straight the young people.

The Ocean Primer sea primer for students “Our Blue Planet: yesterday – today – tomorrow” can be obtained via the DEEPWAVE e.V. association against a donation for postage costs.

Press comment:

Article Ostsee-Zeitung

http://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/Vorpommern/Stralsund/Die-Ozeane-brauchen-eine-Chance

 

PRESS RELEASE
of the Zoological Museum Hamburg and DEEPWAVE e.V.

Exhibition “Our Blue Planet: yesterday – today – tomorrow”

The Zoological Museum Hamburg is showing the exhibition
“Our Blue Planet: Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow” – the Ocean Primer with original illustrations by the illustrator Anna Mandel

from May 21st 2014.

duration May 22nd to September 30th 2014

Opening of the exhibition: Wednesday, May 21st 2014, 18:30

Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg
Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3
20146 Hamburg

Hamburg, April 28th 2014 – Our earth, “the blue planet”, is covered to about 70 percent by the water of the oceans. But far too few people are aware of how much we owe to the sea. We do not know how rich the oceans were yesterday, how threatened they are today and how they could be again tomorrow.

The recently published Ocean Primer “Our Blue Planet” by DEEPWAVE e.V., funded by the Federal Environment Agency, shows on the one hand the fascination of the oceans and on the other hand communicates effective projects in response to the current threats. The 36-page brochure is particularly alive with the detailed and scientifically sound illustrations of the Hamburg artist Anna Mandel.

“As the illustrator of the Ocean Primer for students, I have always been aware of the responsibility of drawing these problems and effective ways of solving them in a clear and sensitive way. My main concern here is the message: to change our view of the oceans, to understand our planet as a blue planet and to be able to act out of newly acquired knowledge, because we still can”, says the illustrator Anna Mandel.

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The living environment of some ecosystems (the North Sea, high seas, deep seas, tropical seas and ice seas) is meticulously depicted yesterday, today and tomorrow. For example, 150 years ago rich shoals of fish and numerous harbour porpoises lived off the North Sea’s dune coasts, whereas today the increasing exploitation (gravel extraction, shipping, tourism, fishing) poses a serious threat to biodiversity. One solution tomorrow would therefore be more protected areas for fish offspring and rare animals. In tropical seas, which are even more threatened by pollution, the protection of mangroves and corals is of primary importance. For the deep sea and its fascinating creatures, it will be necessary to establish worldwide rules and large protected areas in the future.

The comprehensibly written texts of the book-like brochure are primarily intended to bring children closer to the diverse world of the marine habitat and to bring about a rethinking for future generations.

In the exhibition, the 13 large-format original drawings created by hand over a long period of time and a display case with objects from the deep sea, among other places, will be on view.

Dr. Jakob Hallermann from Zoologischer
Museum, Dr. Onno Groß, founder and 1st chairman of DEEPWAVE e.V. and the illustrator Anna Mandel will be present at the opening on May 21st at 18.30 hrs. Interested parties are cordially invited to the vernissage. The exhibition will be on view from May 22nd to September 30th 2014.

The Ocean Primer for students “Our Blue Planet: yesterday – today – tomorrow” can be obtained free of charge from the DEEPWAVE e.V. association against a donation for postage costs.

We would be happy to send you further press material (posters, postcards) and high-resolution pictures on request.

Contact person:

Dr. Jakob Hallermann
Zoological Museum Hamburg
Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3
20146 Hamburg
Tel: 040 42838 2283
Fax: 040 42838 3937
hallermann@uni-hamburg.de

DEEPWAVE e.V.
Sodenkamp 13e
22337 Hamburg

Background material:

Illustratorin
Portfolio Anna Mandel

Zoological Museum Hamburg
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/BioZ/zmh/sm/ver.html

DEEPWAVE e.V.
https://deepwave.org

The non-profit association DEEPWAVE is committed to the national and international interests of the oceans and their endangered creatures.

Promotion notice:
This project was funded by the BMUB and UBA from the proceeds of the 10th special issue stamp “Für den Umweltschutz” on the subject of “marine protection”.

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