Time is TBD
|Within the Whau River Catchment Area
Stop the Plastic Soup
Volunteering opportunity - This project is aiming to stem the flow of rubbish into our harbour which forms massive plastic soups in our seas.
Time & Location
Time is TBD
Within the Whau River Catchment Area, West Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
About The Event
The Whau River Catchment Trust works towards healthier streams along the Whau river through community participation and kaitiakitanga (guardianship and protection). We deliver a wide range of community-based environmental projects focusing on ecological restoration and conservation, principally in collaboration with Auckland Council and other key stakeholders within the catchment.
Stop the Plastic Soup project is aiming to stem the flow of rubbish into our harbour which forms massive plastic soups in our seas. Each year, 1 million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed by rubbish at sea. In some cases, the animals mistake the rubbish for food and the rubbish fills their stomachs, sadly causing death by starvation. Other types of rubbish cause death or injury in other ways.
You and/or your team will be helping to prevent this happening by stemming the tide of waste. You will be getting into the riverbanks and mangrove edge and pulling…