{"id":17907,"date":"2016-06-09T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=17907"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:59:28","slug":"ban-ki-moon-reunites-with-hokulea-crew-for-world-oceans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/06\/ban-ki-moon-reunites-with-hokulea-crew-for-world-oceans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban Ki-moon reunites with Hokule\u2019a crew for World Oceans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Warning that we are dangerously close to breaking the limit of how we should use oceans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/\">Secretary-General<\/a> Ban Ki-moon today reunited with a Polynesian voyaging canoe crew who are using traditional methods to circumvent the world and highlight the importance of protecting our bodies of water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour voyage was a testament to the power of island people. You showed the resilience of island culture \u2013 and the timeless value of island wisdom,\u201d the Secretary-General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/infocus\/sgspeeches\/statments_full.asp?statID=3068#.V1ifcdkrJpg\">told<\/a> the Hokule\u2019a Worldwide Voyage on a rainy morning in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The journey, which started in Hawaii this May, is known as Malama Honua, meaning \u201cto care for our island earth.\u201d Organized by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, the crew is planning to cover 47,000 nautical miles, 85 ports and 26 countries, by the time the canoe docks in June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ban met with the crew in the Samoan capital of Apia in September 2014, during the Third Small Island Developing State Conference. He boarded the canoe, along with senior UN officials and President of Palau, Tommy Remengesau Jr., and gave the crew a message in a bottle that read: \u201cI am inspired by its global mission. As you tour the globe, I will work and rally more leaders to our common cause of ushering in a more sustainable future and a life of dignity for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bottle was returned to Mr. Ban today, along with ocean protection declarations collected from people around the world. Below, watch highlights of today\u2019s event at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsId=54177#.V1l2MvkrLcs\" target=\"_blank\">UN News Centre<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:350px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:58.33%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GuPvmsxzidQ?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning that we are dangerously close to breaking the limit of how we should use oceans, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with a Polynesian voyaging canoe crew using traditional methods to circumvent the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4],"tags":[5952,351,5949],"class_list":["post-17907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-below-water","category-news","tag-goal-14","tag-oceans","tag-world-oceans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}