CNN Live: Interview with Abdulla Al Suwaidi, The Pearls Diver and Owner of Suwaidi Pearls

Now long before the UAE hosted COP 28, so this area was known for pearl diving.

It's a practice that is innately in tune with nature, seen in Academy participant Mira Al-Kabaisi spoke to one Emirati pearl diver who remembers the environmental stewardship of past generations.

"This pearl is more expensive than the barrel of oil.
You will be very surprised if I tell you, oyster or pearl oyster in the bottom of the sea is more sustainable than a human.
I am Abdullah Rashid al Suwaidi a pearl diver from a long line of generation has dives for the pearls in the Arabian gulf. Very proudly Emirati, and I love what I do.
Humans are and it is important polluting the water and they polluting the air as well, that increasing warming temperature in the globe.
Oyster is responsible of filtering daily 50 to 60 gallon by taking all the sediments of the sea and the nitrogen and releasing oxygen.
The generation in the past was very environmentally responsible.
That's why they handed over a perfect environment.
We are damaging this environment, unfortunately, in a shorter time."