World Ocean Day Postcard

World Oceans Day Postcard
by WINDYDESIGN

Sometimes I design a postcard for a day of the year event we've all heard of.  And then I wonder what the day is about and why it was created in the first place, which means I have a research project on my hands. Back in 1992, the great nation of Canada proposed a World Ocean Day at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Eleven years later, this started to become a reality when a website was created to support organizers in as many as fifteen countries. A total of 25 events were held at aquariums, zoos and museums and a multi-year campaign was launched to create action around World Ocean Day.  These efforts resulted in a petition being circulated and four years later, in 2008, the United Nations officially recognized June 8 as World Ocean Day. 

30 X 30

Today the World Ocean Day website states its goal as being to protect thirty percent of all land and water on the Earth by the year 2030. This will be done by putting pressure on government agencies all over the world to create regulations and laws in furtherance of protection of nature in all forms. The catch phrase is 30 X 30. If you go to the website you will find there are more petitions for you to sign. 

As I write this blog post in 2022, I am wondering how we are going to change laws in towns, cities and countries all across the world by 2030 after taking so many years to start a website and get signatures on a petition. We have eight years left,  to accomplish the rest of the work--and the rest of the work would be the hard part. But my blog is just about pretty and interesting and novel postcards, so let's stick to that. Being a fan of nature, I have designed quite a few ocean themed cards.

Krill Postcard

Ocean Krill
by WINDYDESIGN

Krill is a tiny organism which is part of the massive schools of plankton in the ocean. While it may seem natural to assume that most of our oxygen comes from trees, a full seventy percent of the oxygen we breathe comes from marine plants in the ocean. In terms of total biomass, krill is one of the largest players on the planet. As Lemony Snicket would say, that means there's a lot of it. And what eats krill? Over half of this biomass is eaten by whales, squid, penguins, seals and fish, like the ones on our next postcard.

Fish in Hawaii on a Pacific Ocean Postcard

Hawaiian Ocean Fish Thank You
by WINDYDESIGN

Thanks for reading!