New Zealand Olympic gold and silver medal earning, America's Cup winning sailors, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have started the conservation charity Live Ocean. While they are currently focusing on the upcoming Olympics in Japan, they are using their popularity and resources to help push New Zealand closer to the forefront of ocean conservation.
“We see the opportunity that we have still competing and being able to shine a light on ocean health and use what we’re doing in sailing to get more eyeballs onto that. That’s been great.”
The 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race was about the only thing Burling and Tuke didn’t win in the last five years. But it’s what they saw — and didn’t see — on that trek that prompted them to take action.
“It’s an incredibly complex problem and the one for me is what you don’t see,” Burling said. “You look out the window at a healthy ocean or an unhealthy ocean and they don’t look so different. I sailed around the world being able to count the amount of whales we saw on one hand and the bird life in the South Pacific wasn’t anywhere near what we’ve been told stories of what it should it be like.
Read the article from AP News : https://apnews.com/article/olympic-games-business-sports-0dbb5c1f9d91a9091ff282444a7c5e35
Learn more about Live Ocean : https://liveocean.com/
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