What it Takes to Find a Sperm Whale in Turkey ?
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@sober_pirate thank you for capturing these genuine moments on video and sharing it with us. Watching the decline of our oceans and its natural ecosystem is very sad, tho it does give me a little bit of hope to see these humans who actually cares and try to do something about it. Videos like this inspires me, and I hope it reaches more people and inspire them too 🙂
What it Takes to Find a Sperm Whale in Turkey ?
I've joined Whales and Dolphins Research Expedition organized by organization DMAD. The project called " Giant Guardians Of The Deep Seas" the aim of survey is to scan all Eastern Mediterranean part of Turkey for cetaceans. My position was drone pilot and to find sperm whales there was not an easy task.Such researches are very important and necessary both for scientific purposes and conservation. Unfortunately as it often happens such projects lack funding. And right now further surveys under questions because of not enough money to cover the expenses.
To find more about DMAD : dmad.org.tr/en/
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The choice is Yours. DMAD – Marine Mammals Research Association is a non-profit and a non-governmental organization that aims to create an ecological consciousness through its scientific research and outreach activities. Get Involved Be the change.Deniz Memelileri Araştırma Derneği
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in reply to Rokosun • •Watched it too. Very sad to see the state of the ocean declining rapidly. Like I said to @Dima before what I'd wish to see more is some focus on the why people exploit and do these bad things. I think that woman in the video that's kinda the "main" character, appeared in another of Dima's videos and she did great at explaining how if we do not help the people, these poor people will have to exploit the oceans in order to survive. I think she was saying that they are using dynamite to kill a lot of fish.
But this is something I rarely see in videos/documentaries, the focus on why these things happen. Dima said he will try to emphasize on that more in the future. I understand that you can get repetitive since it all starts from this trade-environment (mostly), but it is definitely worth adding the "why people do these bad things".
Anyway, Dima does a great job with these videos, from editing to highlighting these wonderful people who do wonderful things. Like he was saying, these are the heroes.
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in reply to Rokosun • •@Tio actually i had to cut out few scenes out of the video, when Aylin (that woman) is explaining how everything is rigged by oil and gas industry and military exercises. Because she is protecting sea she is in a conflict with Turkish oil industry, they sued her for some kind of bullshit which his not truth, but anyway she got court right now. And before publishing i showed video to her and she liked a lot that part, but decided to ask her lawyer if it's possible to publish that. Because in that part of the video there were also cuts from Turkish media news outlets how they support basically destruction of an environment for a profit. And lawyer said that it has to be out of video 100%. Because if published she will had huge problems in the court. Imagine that!!! That's a fucked up world where you can't really point on the problem because you can be fined or even jailed. And Turkey is not the most "free speech" country in the world.
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