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Man’s Dependence on Oceans Stressed This Week

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More than 15 million school children and conservationists across the country are expected to participate in the 1981 observance of National Wildlife Week, March 15 thru 21

"We Care about Oceans” is the theme for the 44th annual observance of the week, first proclaimed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 to rally public support for programs to enhance the nation’s wildlife population. WALTER CRONKITE, the dean of American TV newscasters, is chairing this year’s National Wildlife Week, which is sponsored annually by the National WildUfe Federation — the nation's largest conservation education organization. He will narrate radio and TV public

‘‘Walter Cronkite has demonstrated his concern for our environment in his broadcasts \for two decades,” said Dr. Scroggin, a physician from Dry Ridge, Ky. "He has alerted millions of Americans to environmental issues through the medium of television. When you add that his great interest in the sea, there is no one who could deliver a message about the importance of our oceans more convincingly.” THIS IS THE first year that National Wildlife Week has concentrated on the oceans. In the past the week's themes have dealt mostly with endangered species of wildlife and the protection of wildlife habitat.

"We decided to broaden

1981 National Wildlife Week Poster

service announcements calling for a halt to pollution of the world's oceans. According to NWF president Dr. Fred R. Scroggin, Cronkite, who sails a 42-ft. seagoing yacht as an avocation, was chosen in recognition of his longstanding interest in conservation problems, and, in particular, because of his "obvious love of the sea."

the theme this year to cover a natural resource that we are all dependent upon, but most of us take for granted,” Dr. Scroggin explained. "The oceans not only cover 71 per cent of the Earth’s surface, but they serve as a reservoir for 97 per cent of the earth’s water supply, provide us with half of our lifesustaining oxygen, and

with millions of tons of food. “Whether we live along a coast or in the landlocked Midwest, we are dependent on the living sea. and yet in many places use it as though it were a bottomless garbage pit, dumping into it sewage, deadly chemicals, and even

nuclear wastes. This year, we hope to educate millions of Americans to the fact that the ocean's ecology is a delicate one and that we must protect it." TO HELP GET this important message to the nation’s concerned students, educators, and conservationists. the NWF has mailed more than one million

posters to Wildlife Week participants. One poster features a sea otter, photographed for the NWF by renowned wildlife photographer Stephen J Kraseman. A second poster bears color photographs of 16 different species of ocean-dwelling wildlife. In addition, beginning Sunday. March 15. the first

day of Wildlife Week, the public . service announcements, or • spots," ndrrated by Walter Cronkite, began appearing on radio and tv stations across the county The electronic media campaign began just seven days after Cronkite Ipst broadcast on the CBS, Evening News, which he anchored since 1962,

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