Indigenous Land & Sea Rangers around the country have been working with Tangaroa Blue Foundation and the Australian Marine Debris Initiative since 2011.
With the Rangers’ assistance vital information and data has been collected, and thousands of tonnes of marine debris has been removed from remote and significant sites across Australia.
Rangers also work with community members, local shire councils, junior rangers and school students on source reduction plans, recycling programs and clean-up events.
If you would like more information please email info@tangaroablue.org
The Djunbunji Land & Sea Ranger team is leading by example with the creation of their new reusable events kit.
After attending the Australian Marine Debris Initiative’s 2014 conference and being involved in creating Source Reduction Plans for various projects, the rangers decided to create a Source Reduction Plan for themselves. Read more “Djunbunji Rangers are taking the lead on waste reduction”
The East Trinity community came together on the 26th of February for an early Clean Up Australia Day event, with an invitation from the Djunbunji Land and Sea Rangers to help tackle the litter and illegal dumping issue at Giangurra Beach. Read more “East Trinity Community Clean-up with Djunbunji Land & Sea Rangers”
During the past three years, the Tangaroa Blue Foundation team have been privileged to work with Indigenous communities throughout Cape York and the Torres Strait Islands on the marine debris issue. In these remote areas where access and logistics can be extremely difficult Indigenous Land & Sea Rangers, school teachers and students, community members and councils have supported the Australian Marine Debris Initiative by running beach clean-ups and data collection, as well as creating local source reduction plans to stop marine debris before it enters the environment.
With the amazing wealth of knowledge of their Saltwater Country from our Indigenous partners, along with Tangaroa Blue’s expertise on marine debris, we are proud to release the first Cape York Marine Debris Management Plan. The goal of the plan is to highlight the amounts and types of marine debris found in this remote area of Australia, identifying that much of this debris is washing up from other areas of Australia and from overseas, and to look at creative and innovative strategies that will help improve the marine and coastal environment that can be replicated around the country.
Read more “Cape York Marine Debris Management Plan Released”
Over five days last week 18 members of the Mapoon Land & Sea Rangers, a team from Conservation Volunteers Australia, GhostNets Australia and Tangaroa Blue set to the mammoth task of cleaning up the northern end of Cullen Point and Back Beach at Mapoon on the west of Cape York. Though the beach is regularly patrolled by the Land & Sea Rangers who remove ghost nets (derelict fishing nets) and larger items, the amount of marine debris has been described by local residents as overwhelming. Read more “Mapoon Smashes the Cape Thong Record!”
The Djunbunji Land and Sea Rangers headed to the beach with Tangaroa Blue today on the Yarrabah Peninsula as part of their sea debris monitoring program.
SBS TV program “Living Black” was on hand documenting the types and amounts of marine debris found in the region and the great work the Rangers are doing to remove it and find ways to stop the flow of rubbish into our oceans. Great day!
The program just screened! If you missed it – here is a link:
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/24112195958/Living-Black-S18-Ep4-Sea-Debris
