Jean-Michel Cousteau at EarthX Mexico

December 13, 2018
PHOTO-2018-11-15-22-39-58_0_0.jpg I want to express my respect and admiration to all the brave environmentalists and journalists who have lost and continue to lose their lives in Mexico, Latin America and other parts of the World. They struggle for what is honest and just, to defend Human Rights and our beautiful Blue Planet against the forces that only believe in power, selfishness, and greed ...

DECLARACIÓN DE JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU Y OCEAN FUTURES SOCIETY SOBRE EL CIERRE DEL PARQUE MARINO CHOSI EN JAPÓN.

October 4, 2018
Screen Shot 2018-10-04 at 4.22.39 PM_1.png El Parque Marino Chosi en Japón cerró sus operaciones por falta de asistencia del público y dejó a estos animales totalmente desatendidos ...

Statement by Jean-Michel Cousteau regarding the closing of Chosi Marine Park in Japan

October 4, 2018
Screen Shot 2018-10-04 at 4.22.39 PM_1.png The Chosi Marine Park in Japan closed its operations for lack of attendance by the public and they have left these animals totally unattended ...

Global Climate Action Summit 2018

September 12, 2018
ClimateMarch003_5X7_NAN3-1_0.jpg It is inspiring to see so many people from around the world expressing their concerns about the health of our planet, just as my family has for decades ...

Jean-Michel Cousteau's Letter to Peter Fankhauser, CEO Thomas Cook Group

© Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures SocietyWe know so much more about wild animals today than we did decades ago when humans first started removing them from their families and forcing them to entertain us in captivity. Science tells us that orcas are intelligent, social, far-ranging, and psychologically complex animals with long lifespans ...

Climate Change - Now is the Time for Action: COP 23

November 16, 2017
IraMeyer_PolarBear_Print_1.jpgWe have seen our planet from space, had access to the deepest canyons of the ocean, deciphered the infinitesimal DNA structure of life, and discovered unimaginable species—but we’ve also seen our own destructive influence on the planet’s complex network of life ...

Jean-Michel Cousteau's Letter to the Prime Minister of Fiji

August 9, 2017
_CEV5934_1_0.pngFiji has a special place in my heart. Since the 1980s, I have been involved in working in Fiji, from providing my environmental education program, ‘Project Ocean Search’ at a resort then called Na Koro (My Village), to leading expeditions and filming the beautiful soft coral reefs of the Savusavu region with my team ...

Jean-Michel Cousteau's Statement on Climate Change

April 26, 2017
IraMeyer_PolarBear_Print_1.jpgWe have seen our planet from space, had access to the deepest canyons of the ocean, deciphered the infinitesimal DNA structure of life, and discovered unimaginable species—but we’ve also seen our own destructive influence on the planet’s complex network of life ...

Jean-Michel Cousteau's Letter to the Prime Minister of Japan

© Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures SocietyOrcas are not for aquariums. Orcas are not for food. Orcas are not for school lunch. Orcas are not for pet food. Orcas are not for pig food. Orcas are not oil for restaurants. Orcas are not for compost. Orcas are not for construction concrete. Orcas are for the wild ...

Statement on Banning Styrofoam in Hawaii In Support of Hawaii Bill 140

June 13, 2016
Underwater StyrofoamWhen our team first came to visit these ‘untouched’ places, we found them filled with man-made marine debris and garbage, including miles of Styrofoam pollution as far as our eyes could see ...