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The Marine Vigilantes remove 1,320 kilos of waste in a single day from the bottoms of the Canary Islands

June 4, 2023
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SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Volunteer divers from the Red de Vigilantes Marinos participate this weekend, for the seventh consecutive year, in a garbage collection action in the natural environment launched by SEO/Birdlife and Ecoembes. Under the name ‘1m2 against garbage’, the Libera project summons thousands of citizens again on the same date in order to keep natural spaces free of garbage.

The Marine Wardens intervene in the sea extracting waste of various kinds that reveal the great problem that garbage poses for aquatic ecosystems and that causes the death of more than a million birds and one hundred thousand sea turtles a year.

On this occasion, the Red de Vigilantes has managed to mobilize more than a thousand volunteers who this weekend carry out their performances in Andalusia, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Murcia, the Basque Country, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla León, Ceuta and Melilla.

The Puerto de Vueltas de Valle Gran Rey (La Gomera) has been one of the enclaves chosen by the Marine Wardens to remove waste. The protagonists of this cleaning have been the members of Buceo La Gomera and the Hupalupa La Gomera Diving Club.

Together they have managed to extract from the marine environment a total of 1,200 kilos of waste of various kinds, such as fishing gear, tires, mobile phones, lures, some 300 bottles of beer, cans, awnings and abandoned pots; Inside one of them, a spiny drum has been found dead, a fish of great ecological interest in the Canary Islands, since it is a natural predator of the long-spined sea urchin, which devastates the seaweed bottoms.

The initiative has had the participation of almost 30 volunteers and with the sponsorship of the Valle Gran Rey City Council, Cabildo de La Gomera, Puertos Canarios, GomerActiva and Turismo La Gomera.

For their part, the divers and volunteers on land from the El Sebadal Diving Club, in San Sebastián de La Gomera, have carried out their activity at Playa de la Cueva in their town, removing 45 kilos of waste of various kinds, including cigarette butts and cans stand out for their abundance. Among the garbage found there was also a tire.

The initiative has had the collaboration of the Cabildo de La Gomera, the City Council of San Sebastián de La Gomera, Redpromar, Aglayma Ecológica, Distribuciones Argom, Gomeractiva, Actividades La Brújula and Scubatec Canarias.

On the island of Tenerife, some 30 volunteers from the Terramare Club have organized their intervention in Porís de Abona (Arico), in the area of ​​the Old Dock, from where they have removed 75 kilos of waste, including ropes and fishing lines. The Cabildo de Tenerife Environmental Volunteer Participation Office, Arico City Council and the Buceo y Vida and Borealsub clubs have participated in the activity as local collaborators. It sponsors the Canary Islands Brewing Company, Desguaces Insulares and Cooperativa La Fast.



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