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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: National Geographic's Enric Sala on saving the planet, one kilometre at a time
Description: Enric Sala has a plan to save the planet. National Geographic’s explorer-in-residence is in Abu Dhabi for the World Ocean Summit. His one message — that we need to protect 30 per cent of our planet’s land and oceans by 2030.
But at a time when it feels overwhelmingly difficult to be positive about the Earth’s future, what can be done to save our habitats?
“Being a conservationist, sometimes it is hard to be optimistic,” he says. But despite the worrying headlines, the plastic in our oceans, the devastating deforestation, all is not yet lost, Sala claims.<...