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When the Ocean Has Rights with Callie Veelenturf & Michelle Bender

When the Ocean Has Rights with Callie Veelenturf & Michelle Bender18 Nov 20251 h 01 min

What happens when science, law, and love for the Ocean come together? Callie Veelenturf, marine conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer, has walked the nesting beaches with sea turtles and worked hand in hand with coastal communities, turning relationship into real protection. Michelle Bender, an international leader in Ocean Rights, is helping reshape law itself—pioneering policies that recognize the Ocean and her beings not as resources, but as relatives with rights of...