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EmailThe Pacific Ocean is the largest single geographic feature on our planet. It represents half the world's ocean area, occupies one-third of the earth's surface, and helps support complex ecosystems, ocean-based economies and hundreds of millions of people. The Pacific is also the engine room of Earth's climate and the storeroom of its ocean biodiversity. However, the people from around the Pacific Ocean, from the Arctic to Antarctic, from countries populous and sparse, are witnessing a decline of the Pacific Ocean's vast resources and in the ability to use those resources. Pollution, habitat destruction, overfishing, climate change and invasive species emerge repeatedly as the major causes. These threats interact with each other to damage natural ecosystems, reduce biological and human economic diversity, destroy productivity and encumber human use of the sea.
