PACIFIC ISLANDS
MARINE LITTER CHALLENGE
TierraMa Consulting contracted Sue Ryan to run arts workshops in the Solomon Islands and in Vanuatu in 2019. This program was part of The Commonwealth Litter Programme (CLiP), led by the UK through the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas). Funded by Defra, the programme supports five developing countries across the Commonwealth to take action on plastics entering the oceans. The Pacific Marine Litter Challenge programme was organised as part of the CLiP which was the result of a partnership between the Vanuatu Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and their Oceans Division, the Department of Environment and the Solomon Islands Government.
Principal Investigator leading the CLiP project in the Pacific, Thomas Maes stated, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much! We only have one earth and our oceans are vital to our existence. We should all work together on keeping our oceans clean, healthy and sustainable for future generations to enjoy.
“To stop marine litter, we thus need a unified vision and a plan of action while developing ways of working together at national, regional and global scales.”
LINKS
https://www.sibconline.com.sb/plasticwise-gizo-wins-commonwealth-award/
