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s g John Hocevar has worked in many different places all over the globe. He ha worked in the Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea, Alaska, and many other diverse locations (The Environmentalist”). One of his most successful operations was his campaign in Menhaden, Chesapeake Bay. It involved challenging the second biggest fishery in the United States in court to fight them to reduce the rates of overfishing ("John Hocevar"). Another project that Hocevar successfully completed was leading Greenpeace's response to the BP oil spill on the Macondo Prospect in 2010. Hocevar led a group of activists on a trip to the Gulf of Mexico, where he assessed the damage and directed them to help clean up oil-soaked birds and saving as many fish, birds, and sea mammals as they could from their certain death ("John Hocevar"). Hocevar is a passionate, strong hearted man who deserves much more credit than he gets. The human population needs to work together to protect all life in the ocean. If we can achieve this, we can save countless species that we put in danger in the first place. A single rock tumbling is not enough to cause an entire avalanche, but it can start it. This analogy applies to the concept of fixing the environment as well because the complex issue of environment destruction and protection cannot be fixed by any one person, but John Hocevar is the best man to set the example and encourage others to follow him in his footsteps. He has been fighting for our planet for over ten years, and he remains committed more than ever to the dream of an avalanche of change that could save our oceans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9f0Nvmjns