When most of us think about marine conservation, our minds instantly go to tropical coral reefs, white sand beaches and warm turquoise water all year around. But in the historic waters of Kingston, Ontario in Canada, Martine Roux and her team at Neptune & Salacia Diving Inc are proving that local freshwater ecosystems deserve just as much … Read more
Marine debris is a man-made problem, which means we can also be the ones that solve it. Find out why cleanups are powerful.
New guidelines for conducting environmentally friendly beach and underwater cleanups The Reef-World Foundation – the international coordinator of the UN Environment Programme’s Green Fins initiative – has launched new Green Fins cleanup guidelines to help dive and snorkel operators organise and host environmentally friendly coastal cleanups. “We’ve been so impressed to see so many Green … Read more
Inspired to run your own beach clean-up event? Here are a few tips on how to make sure it’s a success:
For the third year, volunteer assessors were based in Panglao, Philippines for six weeks while undertaking the annual assessments. Battling brown outs and a quiet low season, dive centres were no less enthusiastic for environmental protection.
On July 20th 2016, Green Fins Assessors coordinated a multi stakeholder beach clean-up event that was attended by over 80 volunteers.
On July 29th 2017, Green Fins stakeholders organised a beach clean-up involving the dive shops, local community and local government. In just two hours, over 60 volunteers collected roughly 400 kg of trash from Doljo Beach.
