School students from around the country have joined the Australian Marine Debris Initiative by adopting their local section of beach for on-going marine debris monitoring and removal, showing the next generation is dedicated to the protection of our marine environment.
Articles submitted by each school are listed below showcasing the activities that students have been involved in as part of the Australian Marine Debris Initiative.
If you are part of a school that would like to join the Australian Marine Debris Initiative we are able to provide schools beach clean up materials, an education kit based on the new Australian curriculum, fact sheets, marine debris identification manuals, and data slates to help you with your activities. We are also able to visit your school for presentations, workshops and to help with beach clean-up events – get involved and help protect our ocean environment.
For more information email info@tangaroablue.org
St Bernard’s boys have been hard at it again, doing their bit for the beaches and rivermouths around the Great Ocean Rd in Victoria.
So much rubbish out there,choking up our water ways and beaches, so we all have to keep doing our bit, get on board and help the boys out.
Like many months in the past – the boys collected over 2,500 plastic remnant pieces along with the rest of their haul!
Students from the Rockhampton Grammar School did a clean up recently along the Fitzroy River in the middle of town (Rockhampton/QLD). The students removed approximately 150kg of rubbish in an hour covering a distance of about 500m. We uploaded our data into the AMDI Database.
The study of the marine environment is extremely important at Camden Haven High School and students have been involved in collecting marine debris data for Tangaroa Blue Foundation for several years now. Students regularly clean up the local beaches with their teacher Dr. Deb Geronimi. Our recent clean ups were at WashHouse Beach and Pilot Beach Dunbogan on July 19th, 2017.
