JUne 2009

Planet Ocean

By Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp
(Introduction by Jean-Michel Cousteau)
A National Geographic publication, with the participation of The World Conservation Union (IUCN).

Stunning. The photography in Planet Ocean is simply stunning. Published in 2007, this coffee-table book combines an extraordinary feast of ocean images, with short essays by some of the world’s leading scientists. It is beauty and brains, rolled into one.

Planet Ocean has the weight of the National Geographic Society behind it, in partnership with The World Conservation Union (IUCN). While ocean protection is the focus of this book, the conservation message is paired with an exhilarating photographic tour of the planet’s seas, from the polar oceans to the tropical coral reefs.

CPAWS and WWF chose this book to inspire you. Sometimes pictures really do tell the whole story. This book reveals the creatures and ecosystems we must protect by taking care of our oceans. We hope decision makers gaze upon the miracle of life in this book – some of it quite strange – and celebrate the amazing underwater creatures that exist around the globe.
We hope you enjoy Planet Ocean and leave it on your coffee tables for all to see.

Thanks and happy reading!