Sanjayan: Thanks, Alan. Very kind of you.
Sanjayan: Yeah. She said, "Don't touch one of these buttons." And so immediately then I'm like, "Okay which one is that?"
Sanjayan: They're aboriginal dot painting. There're called song lines and that's exactly right.
Sanjayan: for fishing – male voice in audience: No.
Sanjayan: and not tell anyone else.
Sanjayan: A rhino. What kind of rhino?
Sanjayan: No. It's not a white rhino it's a black rhino, great.
Sanjayan: It's an ostrich egg, right. So an ostrich had laid this egg and they're ostriches they'll lay and they'll come back, they'll lay more or they'll abandon the egg, we don't
Sanjayan: Yep. male in audience #1: Do you have data of the place that had later a marine protected area before it had the marine protected area?
Sanjayan: Great question and the truth of the matter is we don't have it at the level we want it at. We do have some, but not enough.
Sanjayan: We've had tremendous success with our argument of using banks as a catch phrase to--to talk about a collective resource the community can draw on in times of trouble.
Sanjayan: Anika, oh great. How old are you, Anika?
Sanjayan: Seven hundred liters of water a day; seven hundred. So that means we're probably wasting a lot of it, don't you think?
Sanjayan: It's a great question.
Sanjayan: Huh? male in audience #4: That thing you were shaking was not a real egg?
Sanjayan: It is a real egg. What do you think I'm doing like faking these kids out?
Sanjayan: Here pass it, no, no, no. It's look.
Sanjayan: It's actually true. It's one lonely female that lives on a farm.
Sanjayan: You know, so here's the way to do this. I've had a struggle with it and it's very hard to talk about conservation to people who don't think maybe just like us. So you
protected area -- Sanjayan: Yep.
male in audience #4: I was like -- Sanjayan: Yeah, that ostrich, no, that ostrich, no, it was a, a unfertilized egg from an ostrich
Alan Eustace: One more question maybe before -- Sanjayan: Right next to you.
: Coral reefs. Sanjayan: Coral reefs, great.
questions in the audience and we'll take them for Sanjayan.
desert? Sanjayan: And what's your name?
Anika: Nine. Sanjayan: You're nine, oh I have a niece just like you, she's eight. And she asked me how many pounds of food I ate on my walk across the desert.
So with that, let me introduce Sanjayan. Please take it away, sir.
male in audience #2: You talked about the fish bank in Solomon Islands -- Sanjayan: Yeah.
Well thanks for havin' me here again. My name is Sanjayan, I'm the lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy.
male in audience #4: Like you, you were shaking it so much -- Sanjayan: Oh.
do, do, do, do, Sanjayan: Alright. So now that's all you have to remember and then you can go away.