{"id":5223,"date":"2019-08-31T19:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:41:37","slug":"pto-action-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/pto-action-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace reveals a massive whale art installation in Morocco to send a message to the world: protect our oceans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-mena-stateless\/2019\/08\/money-shot-ENG-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tangier\/ Morocco- 31 Augus<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t: Part of the one year \u2018Pole to Pole\u2019 expedition to document and highlight the main threats facing the oceans and demanding \u201cocean sanctuaries&#8221;, Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa (MENA) revealed today an art installation made of 800 used plastic bottles representing a blue whale. This event was followed by a beach clean up on Tangier municipality beach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Falastin<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e Dwikat, campaigner at Greenpeace MENA said: \u201dWith this art installation we are sending a message from the Mediterranean\u00a0 to the world calling for Ocean Sanctuaries to protect marine life from the many man-made dangers threatening it such as plastic pollution, overfishing and climate change.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The art installation was created by the moroccan artist, Mokhtar Ghailan, with the help of Greenpeace\u2019s volunteers. The \u201cplastic whale\u201d is 4 meters long and 3 meters high and took the artist 7 days to finalize.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-render=\"planet4-blocks\/gallery\" data-attributes=\"{&quot;attributes&quot;:{&quot;gallery_block_style&quot;:0,&quot;gallery_block_title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;gallery_block_description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;multiple_image&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;gallery_block_focus_points&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image_data&quot;:[],&quot;images&quot;:[]}}\"><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ghailan said:\u201dThrough this whale installation we are using art to highlight one of the biggest threats to our planet: plastic pollution. Art\u00a0 is a very powerful vector to reach out to a wider audience and help raising awareness on the challenges that our oceans are facing. Art has always been a great way to drive change\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRestoring the health of our oceans and seas is critical in preserving marine life, tackling the climate crisis, and sustaining the lives and livelihoods of millions of people who depend on them. A strong Global Ocean Treaty will pave the way for a network of sanctuaries that should cover at least 30% of the ocean&#8217;s surface to make them resilient to the worst man-made impacts according to scientists.\u201d added Dwikat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The art installation will be donated later to the Tangier municipality and will be placed on the public beach as landmark for ocean protection. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The installation of the art piece was followed by a beach and underwater clean-up, which gathered more than 120\u00a0 participants and divers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur oceans are in crisis. Almost 1.8 million people have signed the petition calling on governments to sign a global ocean treaty and declare ocean sanctuaries. It is time for the world\u2019s governments to listen to what people have to say. We want ocean sanctuaries now!\u201d concluded Dwikat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notes to Editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Less than 3% of the oceans are protected<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenpeace ships Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise are travelling from the Arctic to the Antarctic to research climate change, overfishing, plastic pollution, deep-sea mining and drilling.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Greenpeace is immersed in a one-year expedition from pole to pole to document, along with a team of top-level scientists, the numerous threats facing the oceans: climate change, overfishing, plastic-pollution, deep-sea mining, and oil drilling. 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