A few years ago I spent a lucky three months on a remote Fijian island. I was volunteering in a conservation project that ultimately contributed to the waters around the tiny island being designated a Marine Protected Area. It was an amazing experience that was full of wonderful surprises.
And one less pleasant surprise.
The amount of litter that washed up on the beach round the headland (where the prevailing winds struck the island) was depressing. We regularly cleared it, but every tide brought a new barrage of plastic bottles, tattered flip flops, plastic rope and the like. Detritus that can spell death to marine wildlife.
Our own marine wildlife closer to home suffers just the same problem So our wonderful warden Wes and volunteers at Coquet Island recently did a good bit of beach clearing – and made this fabulous video to encourage us all to reduce, reuse and recycle where we can.