On the eve of the UN-organized Ocean Conference (UNOC), Megan Randles, head of Greenpeace International's delegation to UNOC, announces the NGO's objectives. "We hope to reach 60 ratifications of the global ocean treaty", she explains. "The science is very clear: if we leave the ocean alone, it will regenerate. We must ratify it and start thinking about the specific areas where we need to protect the high seas and ensure that this area is off-limits to extractive industries," she adds. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES