International Clean Up Day 15.09.2007

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Clean Up Abu Helal 21.08.2007

by Volunteer Julia Schnetzer

When Alexander Keck, Christian Alter and their volunteers arrived at the first dive site for the Dahab Reef Monitoring they looked on a disaster.
Everywhere were bottles, plastic bags, batteries, shoes and glass.
So they decided to clean up every diving site they will visit during the Reef Monitoring.
Unfortunately waste is one of the major problems we are facing here on Sinai’s coast. Sadly, there are not many people who do care about the environment, some natives but also tourists throw their garbage on the streets or even in the sea without thinking about the consequences.
The waste destroys not only the amazing scenery, even worse is the damage under water.
Turtles can’t distinguish between a plastic bag and a jellyfish. So, the plastic is sometimes consumed which can suffocate the turtles. When the waste falls down on corals the colonies are dying and so the reef gets more and more damaged.