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Posted by: Eco-Question Editor
Source: Underwater Sculpture – www.underwatersculpture.com
Photo Credit: Jason deCaires Taylor, Underwater Sculpture – www.underwatersculpture.com Underwater Sculpture Video Credit:

• Sculptures & Film by: Jason deCaires Taylor – www.underwatersculpture.com

CORAL Banner Credit: The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) – www.coral.org
Special Thanks:

• Jason deCaires Taylor
• Joanna Solins 
  (Communications Associate of The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) – www.coral.org)

New Installation by Jason deCaires Taylor

New installation now completed in The Museum of Underwater Modern Art, Mexico. 3 new underwater sculptures explore the relationships between art, science and environment.

• Inercia (Inertia) 4m depth. MUSA Museo Subaquático de Arte, Punta Nizuc Mexico.
• Vacio (Void) 4m depth. MUSA Museo Subaquático de Arte, Punta Nizuc Mexico.
• Herencia (Inheritance) 4m depth. MUSA Museo Subaquático de Arte, Punta Nizuc Mexico.

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Underwater Sculpture Video Credit:

• Sculptures & Film by: Jason deCaires Taylor – www.underwatersculpture.com

Learn more About Artworks:

• La Jardinera de la Esperanza (The Gardener of Hope)
• El Coleccionista de los Sueños Perdidos (The Archive of Lost Dreams)
• Hombre en Llamas (Man on Fire)

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The Silent Evolution…. evolves…

The 400 sculptures forming The Silent Evolution which were placed 6 months ago on a barren patch of sand have been rapidly developing marine life and aggregating fish.

Learn more on:

• Cancun
• Cancun Map 
• What is biodiversity?
• What is Marine and Coastal Biodiversity?
• Why Marine and Coastal Biodiversity is Important?
• What is the Problem of Coastal Biodiversity?
• What is ecosystem service?
• What are the main causes of biodiversity loss?
• Discover 5 different ways the ocean affects your everyday life

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The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) said in the report (www.cbd.int/marine/) that ocean cover 70% of our planet and represent over 95% of the biosphere. Marine and coastal habitants include coral reefs, mangrove forests, sea grass beds, estuaries, hydrothermal vents, seamounts and soft sediments on the ocean floor deep below the surface.

Deep-seabed habitats host between 500,000 and 10 million species. Deep-sea life is essential to life on Earth because its crucial role in global biogeochemical cycles including nutrient regeneration and oxygen.

This tremendous wealth of biodiversity and ecosystem services is not infinite. Today, human activities are greatly threatening the seas and coasts through overfishing, destructive fishing practices, pollution and waste disposal, agricultural runoff, invasive alien species, and habitat destruction.

Recent scientific results hilighted that higher biodiversity can enhance the functioning and efficiency of deep-sea ecosystem. To create a habitat for marine life, marine biodiversity by creating the one of a kind master pieces of underwater sculptures, says it all to the preservation of ecosystem services and marine biodiversity done by an eco-artist, Jason deCaires Taylor.

Learn more from trusted international web sites we love:

• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) www.cbd.int/marine
• International Coral Reef Initiative www.icriforum.org
• United Nation Environment Program (UNEP) www.unep.org
• International Maritime Organization www.imo.org
• Biodiversity Conservation Network www.bcnet.org
• Coastal wiki www.encora.eu/coastalwiki
• Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) www.coral.org
• The Nature Conservancy www.nature.org
• The Stop Global Warming Virtual March www.stopglobalwarming.org

Related stories:

• How eco-art be a part of protecting the wealth of marine biodiversity and ecosystem services? Part 1
• How eco-art be a part of protecting the wealth of marine biodiversity and ecosystem services? Part 2
• How eco-art be a part of protecting the wealth of marine biodiversity and ecosystem services? Part 3

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Artist : Biography

Jason deCaires Taylor was born in 1974 to an English father and Guyanese mother, spending the earlier part of his life growing up in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. Educated in South East England, he graduated in 1998 from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, with a B.A.Honours in Sculpture and Ceramics. He is also a fully qualified diving instructor, underwater naturalist and award winning underwater photographer, with over 14 years of diving experience in various countries.

In May 2006 he gained international recognition for creating the world’s first underwater sculpture park in Grenada, West Indies. His underwater sculptures, designed to create artificial reefs for marine life to colonise and inhabit, embrace the transformations wrought by ecological processes. The works engage with a vision of the possibilities of a sustainable future, portraying human intervention as positive and affirmative. Drawing on the tradition of figurative imagery, the aim of Jason deCaires Taylor’s work is to address a wide-ranging audience crucial for highlighting environmental issues beyond the confines of the art world. However, fundamental to understanding his work is that it embodies the hope and optimism of a regenerative, transformative Nature.

Jason is currently resident in Mexico as Artistic Director of the new Cancun Underwater Museum.

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