Olivia Colman calls for global action to save oceans as she stars in Greenpeace film

Olivia Colman has made an impassioned plea to save the oceans.

Writing in the Evening Standard, the star of The Crown demands action “on a global scale” to protect sealife threatened by pollution, over-fishing and climate change.

Colman, who voices an endangered sea turtle in a new animated short for Greenpeace by Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman, said marine habitats are being destroyed “at a rate never before witnessed”.

The actress is backing a proposed Global Ocean Treaty which is under discussion at the United Nations.

Dame Helen Mirren also voices a role in the short film.