Holly Hogan is a Canadian wildlife biologist and writer whose work is centred around documenting and mitigating the consequences of plastic pollution in our oceans.
A scientist for more than 30 years, she's spent around one thousand days at sea conducting avian and marine mammal surveys and providing educational programmes with expedition teams.
Holly contributed expertise on seabirds and the impact of marine plastic for the award-winning documentary Hell or Clean Water (2021) which follows the quest of a determined Newfoundlander to clean up coastal ocean floors.
Published work
Holly's book Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist, published in 2023, focuses on a troubling pattern spotted on her voyages across the world's seas: plastic pollution.
Combining nature, science and adventure writing, Hogan puts the spotlight on our plastic-fuelled lifestyles, providing an eyewitness account of its devastating effects on the marine environment and highlighting international efforts to combat it.
In an interview with Nature Canada, Holly said: “The ocean will support life, but it doesn’t insist on it. The ocean doesn’t make choices. We do.”
"This is not the time for despair – it is time to take informed, positive action. There are many progressive steps already underway. The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) is working toward an international legally binding agreement that could see an 80% reduction in plastic pollution by 2040."[1]
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