A pre-festival event for this year's 'Moby Dick' themed On Land's Edge / Ar Ymyl Y Tir, with a collaboration between Theatr Gwaun and Sea Trust Wales.
Presented by Sea Trust Wales with speakers Cliff Benson and Nadia Tomsa.
Cliff Benson and Nadia Tomsa look into the history of commercial whaling. They also discuss the ethics and sustainability of wildlife tourism and conservation activity, chasing whales with cameras rather than harpoons!
A hundred years elapsed between Herman Melville writing his novel and Hollywood’s John Huston, making his 1954 film “Moby Dick” in Fishguard.
Whaling had evolved from the whalers of Nantucket, whose sailing whaleships scoured the oceans, to becoming a mechanised industry. Our illustrated presentation looks at some of the bizarre aspects of whaling and its ultimate decline because of its unsustainability and a global shift in opinion.
We then look at how Sea Trust’s work over twenty-five years has recorded whales in Wales, and our collective responsibility for their protection.
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Wedi'i gyflwyno gan Ymddiriedolaeth y Môr Cymru gyda'r siaradwyr Cliff Benson a Nadia Tomsa.
Digwyddiad cyn Gŵyl Ar Ymyl y Tir / On Land's Edge, sydd â thema 'Moby Dick' eleni, gyda chydweithrediad rhwng Theatr Gwaun ac Ymddiriedolaeth y Môr Cymru.
Mae Cliff Benson a Nadia Tomsa yn edrych ar hanes hela morfilod masnachol. Maent hefyd yn trafod moeseg a chynaliadwyedd twristiaeth bywyd gwyllt a gweithgarwch cadwraeth, gan fynd ar ôl morfilod â chamerâu yn hytrach na harpŵns!
Aeth can mlynedd heibio ers i Herman Melville ysgrifennu ei nofel. Daeth John Huston o Hollywood, i wneud ffilm "Moby Dick" ym 1954 yn Abergwaun.
Esblygodd hela morfilod o wreiddiau helwyr Nantucket yn eu llongau ar y cefnforoedd, i ddod yn ddiwydiant mecanyddol. Mae ein cyflwyniad darluniadol yn edrych ar rai o agweddau rhyfedd hela morfilod a'i ddirywiad oherwydd ei anghynaliadwyedd a newid barn byd-eang.
Yna, rydym yn edrych ar sut mae gwaith Sea Trust dros bum mlynedd ar hugain wedi cofnodi morfilod yng Nghymru, a'n cyfrifoldeb ar y cyd dros eu gwarchodaeth.
