Beach Clear Up

By Report of Reef and Beach Clear up by IUCN

16 May 2005

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Over the weekend on 30^th April/1^st May the IUCN World Conservation Union (see link below) and the Sri Lanka Sub Aqua club organised a further clean up, providing some specialist equipment that had not previously been available. FoU were able to provide volunteers, and fund a tractor/JCB to remove some of the larger debris pulled from the sea bed which included drainage pipe and concrete telegraph poles. Later in May UTDS (www.unawatuna.info) and FoU organised and funded a further clean up to continue the work

Unawatuna_report_1_.pdf

The clear ups have been suspended because of the monsoons, but will resume after, when no doubt the moonsoon and resulting rough sea will churn up a lot more debris.

Below are some photos of one of the beach clean ups in May.

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