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OPS inspires, empowers, and connects a global community using high-impact films and visual storytelling to expose the most critical issues facing our planet.

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We Create to Inspire. We Collaborate to Solve.

By documenting humankind's formidable impact on the environment, we inspire action and motivate change.

Combining state-of-the-art technology, courage, and covert operations, OPS harnesses the power of the camera to expose crimes against nature and illuminate solutions.

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Making Waves on Instagram

In an alarming new study, scientists have found microplastics in the fluid that surrounds the oocyte(an oocyte is essentially a human egg cell, before it has developed)

These findings prove that microplastics are present during the earliest stages of an embryo’s development.

Microplastics have been found in human brains, placentas, testicular tissues, lungs, blood, and now, they’re polluting the very fluid that develops an embryo.

The study, published in the journal Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, found microplastics in follicular fluid in 14 of 18 samples from people at a clinic in Salerno, Italy. The team found an average number of 2,191 particles per milliliter of follicular fluid in their research.

You might have noticed we’ve been sharing a lot of content recently about plastics impact on human health.

There is no surprise there. 🙂 We’re currently working on a project to raise awareness about the pervasive nature of microplastics and nano plastics in our modern world, and the threat these microscopic particles have on human health.

As you all know, plastic, microplastics, and nano plastics are quite literally, EVERYWHERE. Plastic is killing millions of animals every year, and it’s polluting every water and land source on the planet.

Plastic production needs to be stopped at the source, plain and simple.

We’re excited to share this project with you in the near future, stay tuned for updates! You can join our newsletter at opsociety.org. Click the link in our bio to donate to our projects or sign up for our newsletter! #microplastics #toxictruth #nanoplastics #plasticpollution #microplastic
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From OPS founder, Louie Psihoyos: (@psihoyos)

We were summoned to the Vatican to discuss illuminating the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica with endangered species. My friends, Travis Threlkel, Chris LeJeune and myself faced a team of the Pope’s cardinals who were stone faced after our pitch - That we were even there was a bit of a miracle, the 3 of us weren’t Catholic but we were driven with the audacious goal of trying to get a billion people aware of the Anthropocene, the world’s 6th great extinction.

Studies show you only need 10% of a population to begin creating social change - a billion would be a marker that we were starting to move the needle. The Pope named himself after St. Francis, the patron Saint of Animals and he himself was trying to get his flock of over a billion followers to take better care of the Earth. World leaders were meeting in Paris soon for COP 21 and The Pope wanted to create awareness about the plight of animals from environmental degradation. For a film we created called Racing Extinction we had lit up the Empire State Building with endangered species - but we came up short of our goal - with the Pope as a co-conspirator, we had a prayer of reaching a billion people.

After an uncomfortable long silence, the Pope’s number two spoke up, “If it was up to me, this would never happen.”
“Why?” I asked.
“The last artist to do anything on the facade was Michael Angelo. But the Pope wants this to happen - so it will.”

The event had over 4.4 billion media views.
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