A century ago, most marine ecosystems were healthy. Just 50 years later, overfishing and pollution destroyed vast populations of marine life around the world. Many previously healthy species, such as the Pacific manta ray, disappeared forever.
This film takes us to a remote archipelago in Mexico. Its marine environment can still be described with words like “abundant,” “thriving,” “perfect,” and “healthy.” The Revillagigedo Archipelago, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, still shows that there is hope for preserving marine biodiversity.
The Legacy is a mouthful of oxygen when so much of today’s environmental reality tells us we are drowning. A century ago, most marine ecosystems were healthy and exploding with life, yet in just 50 years, overfishing and pollution have destroyed marine life populations in many parts of the planet. Several previously healthy populations of species, like the Giant Pacific Manta Ray off the Gulf of California, have disappeared altogether.
The Legacy reminds us not to despair. The film takes us to a remote archipelago in Mexico where words like “abundance”, “thriving”, and “perfect and healthy populations” are still being used to describe a marine environment. Declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2016, the Archipelago of Revillagigedo is evidence that the ocean’s biodiversity, and our hope, is not yet lost.
