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Protecting our oceans for a peaceful and sustainable future. #30x30🏊‍♂️🦈🌍

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@LewisPughFDN
Lewis Pugh Foundation
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Lewis has completed #TheSharkSwim around Martha’s Vineyard! 🦈🏊‍♂️🌊. The swim was about highlighting how sharks are essential for a healthy ocean. But they are under serious threat - 275,000 are killed every day. To protect the ocean, we must protect its apex predators:. 📉 Less
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RT @LewisPugh: A hundred years ago, the Seine was declared too polluted to swim in. Today, it’s open again. A reminder that with investment….
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RT @LewisPugh: The full story behind the Seine’s revival — from @BBCNews:.
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RT @theGEF: Read this eye-opening blog by @LewisPugh, an endurance swimmer and #ocean advocate, as he recounts his 60-mile, 11-day swim thr….
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The ocean gave birth to life, and it has been a cradle of biodiversity ever since. Types of marine organisms 🪼👆🐢. #seacreatures #oceancreatures #oceanlife #animalsofinstagram #oceanfacts
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#DYK sharks don’t have bones? Instead, they are made up of cartilaginous tissue, similar to our ears and the tips of our noses! This makes them much lighter than other species and gives them optimal buoyancy 🦈🩻🛟. #sharksofinstagram #sharkfacts #didyouknow #sharkscience
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Shy like a thresher shark, misunderstood like a great white or calm and collected like a reef shark, which shark are you today? . Click the screen to find out 🦈👆. #sharksofinstagram #shark #sharklover #sharklove #whichsharkareyou #sharkconservation #sharksarefriend
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“It was a film about sharks attacking humans, and for 50 years, we have been attacking sharks … It’s completely unsustainable. It’s madness. We need to respect them.”@LewisPugh #Jaws50thanniversary .#FoxNews.
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RT @UNBiodiversity: Humans kill ≈274,000 sharks every single day. @LewisPugh recently completed #TheSharkSwim: a 96km-swim around Martha’….
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RT @LewisPugh: Jaws scared a generation. 50 years on, I swam around Martha’s Vineyard to show that sharks need protection - not persecution….
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Instead of celebrating Jaws the movie, why not celebrate sharks — the real stars of the ocean?. All profits go towards our shark advocacy. Educate, Respect, Protect. 🦈 Wear your support 🦈. #JawsAnniversary #Jaws50 #TheSharkSwim #ProtectWhatYouLove #SharkFest. @SanJoseSharks
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Today marks 50 years since Jaws premiered. It's time to stop treating sharks as villains, says @LewisPugh.#Jaws50 #TheSharkSwim .
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Lewis Pugh Foundation
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Nearly 50 years after Jaws, sharks still grab our attention. Most people came away afraid. Some fascinated. A few, both. But while we’ve been telling the same old story, 274,000 sharks are killed every day. Sharks keep our oceans in balance. And healthy oceans regulate our
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We've just announced 3 new Shark Champions who are fighting to protect sharks around Martha’s Vineyard 🦈 🌊. Read more here 👉
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@LewisPughFDN
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Life depends on the ocean. Now, the ocean depends on us. Share to support #30x30! 🌊💙🐬
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@LewisPughFDN
Lewis Pugh Foundation
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We get to choose what kind of relationship we have with the ocean 🌊🌎🐠. One choice brings life, beauty, and resilience; the other, devastation 👇
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RT @SharkRayFund: Tanzania just declared two new MPAs in critical habitat for sharks, rays, and other marine life! . SCF is proud to suppor….
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RT @UNEP: Tune in as Patron of the Oceans @LewisPugh joins UNEP’s @andersen_inger at #UNOC3 to discuss the threats and the solutions to pro….
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Lewis Pugh Foundation
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Sharks are essential for biodiversity. Here’s how:. 🦈 They regulate fish populations.🐟 They prevent prey species from overgrazing habitats.🌿 They protect coral reefs and seagrass beds.🌊 They keep marine food webs in balance
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RT @antonioguterres: The ocean is the ultimate shared resource, yet we're failing it:. Fish stocks collapsing. Plastic pollution choking ec….
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