Sunday, September 13 | 17:30 | Warszawa screening room
Debate: Our local sea change: what will the Baltic Sea look like in 50 years? Following the screening of SEA OF SHADOWS, dir. Richard Ladkani
Language: Polish
Partner institutions: Professor Krzysztof Skóra Hel Marine Station of the Oceanography Institute of the University of Gdańsk, Sopot Science Association
“Sea of Shadows” is the dramatic story of the fight to save the endangered vaquita porpoise. Meanwhile, harbor porpoises, our local cousins of the vaquita, made the IUCN Red List: a list of critically endangered species. Is there any chance of saving our porpoises like we did the Baltic gray seal population? The unique conditions of the Baltic Sea are falling victim to climate change—and in many cases the changes are irreversible. We’re all facing the critically important challenge of implementing sustainable responses in order to adapt to these changes.
Guests:
Iwona Pawliczka Vel Pawlik, PhD — employee of the Professor Krzysztof Skóra Hel Marine Station of the Oceanography Institute of the University of Gdańsk. Co-author of the National Porpoise Protection Program and the proposed gray seal protection program.
Tymon Zieliński, PhD — head of the Climate and Ocean Research and Education Unit at the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot, representative of Eastern and Central Europe in the UN report on the state of the marine environment.
Moderator:
Przemek Rydzewski — co-founder and coordinator of the Tri-City edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, co-organizer of the Gdynia Literary Prize and its affiliated festival, Miasto Słowa.
