Among the amazing marine life seen on these shores was a Spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari)!
On their blog, ICCS explains this new effort:
Marine life returning to the shore is subject to numerous stresses including a very high load of plastics and other debris as well as tar balls which persist and wash up from oil spills long forgotten.
These areas have been well recce’d by ICCS Recce Captain Andy Dinesh over the years, who also assists ICCS Zone Captains Xu Weiting and Cai Hongxia oversee the cleanup in September.
ICCS intends to initiate a programme of year-round cleanups at Tanah Merah East in order to grapple with the magnitude of trash on that shore.
These cleanups, separate from our data-driven September cleanup, will be either managed directly or in support of an Organiser of a corporate group or institution interested in contributing to this effort.
To initiate this programme, we are recruiting motivated individuals from amongst ICCS Organisers and Site Buddies, National Volunteer and Philantrophy Centre’s ICCS Site Buddies and Green Champions as well as ICCS alumni and members of the public.
From this pool, we hope to have enough volunteer Site Buddies who can manage cleanups at Tanah Merah at least four times a year. Once this mechanism is set up, the ICCS Year-Round Cleanups at Tanah Merah East will be integrated into the National Volunteer Oil Spill Action Plan which we are developing, in order to prepare volunteers to better respond in a crisis on our shores.
To kick off the programme, we are meeting interested individuals in January 2012:
Recruitment Briefing
Wed 04 Jan 2012: 7.00pm
Conducted by N. Sivasothi (Coordinator, ICCS)
National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre @ Central
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If you are keen to participate and can commit to managing at least four cleanups a year, sign up at:
http://tinyurl.com/iccs-tanahmeraheast
Full details and updates on the International Coastal Cleanup Singapore blog
