Date: 8th September 2012
Time: 7:00am to 12:00pm
Venue: Sungei Pandan Mangrove
The International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) is an annual event conducted in 70-100 countries, coordinated by the US-based agency, The Ocean Conservancy, a non-profit organisation. It aims to collect data and remove the debris from shorelines, waterways and beaches of the world’s lakes, rivers and oceans. This information serves to educate the public on marine debris issues and to encourage positive change by submissions to governmental and international organisations that will reduce debris in waterways and enhance aquatic environments.
The International Coastal Cleanup Singapore (ICCS) has been coordinated by Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research at the National University of Singapore from 2001. Since its inception by the Nature Society (Singapore) in 1992, the ICCS has had an average annual participation of 1500 volunteers and average collection of 60,000 pieces of litter, making it one of Singapore s largest environmental conservation programmes.
The extent and scope of the ICCS has also grown over the years, starting from the beaches of East Coast Park, Pasir Ris Park and Changi Beach, to pioneering mangrove cleanups in Mandai, Lim Chu Kang, Chek Jawa, and year-round cleanups and school talk and exhibition programmes.
Earthlink NTU will be taking part in the International Coastal Cleanup (ICCS 2012) this year as volunteers, to help the battle against trash at Sungei Pandan mangroves.
Marine trash, mainly plastic, is killing more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year. 70% of the marine trash collected in Singapore is attributed to shoreline, recreational and smoking related activities! 80% is PLASTICS! Marine life is endangered by mainly of “Ingestion and Entanglement of Plastics and Fishing Nets . Take action! Singapore has Marine life that is worth protecting.
Registration
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Event Organizer
This event is organized by the Campaign Management portfolio. For more information, you may contact Chia Pei Shan here.