~ A white army of environmentalists attacks
the garbage at Lake Kerkini ~
the garbage at Lake Kerkini ~
17th of October was a great day for the fight against pollution! Together with a lot of Greek pupils the Serres-Volunteers cleaned the Kerkini-Wetland-Area. The Lake Kerkini is Greece’s third biggest storage lake and has a surface of 37 and a half square kilometers. But the Kerkini-Lake is also one of the most important damp biotopes of Greece. The area is under protection of the RAMSAR-Convention and part of European NATURA-2000-Programme. But a lot more important is: Believe it or not, 30 types of sweet-water fishes and 300 types of birds are living here. Th
e pupils and we, the volunteers, arrived there by buses and by cars; after every participant had arrived at the meeting point everybody got fitted out with white t-shirts, white rain jackets and white caps, sponsored by the Coca-Cola-Company. Coca-Cola also sponsored refreshing drinks and something to eat so that everyone could collect some energy before the great cleaning-project started. Who – for instance – had suggested that we would find underwear in the wetland? Yeah… maybe it was your underwear we dug out this morning… stop being astonished. Okay – I’m going to stop being daffy now but although I’m just joking around in the last sentences there is a serious message in it, too. The message is: Protect the environment. When we cleaned up the lake this morning, we wondered why the people throw their garbage just next to them into nature. Maybe it is because there are no garbage cans as far as you can see. So here is our demand to you: Please don’t throw your garbage into the nature, please don’t “forget” your garbage after you have made a pick-nick with your friends in the green. Garbage like cans or bottles are very dangerous for the animals which are living there; they could cut themselves for example. Even textiles – like the underwear we found – can be dangerous because birds – or other animals – can entangle themselves in it.
e pupils and we, the volunteers, arrived there by buses and by cars; after every participant had arrived at the meeting point everybody got fitted out with white t-shirts, white rain jackets and white caps, sponsored by the Coca-Cola-Company. Coca-Cola also sponsored refreshing drinks and something to eat so that everyone could collect some energy before the great cleaning-project started. Who – for instance – had suggested that we would find underwear in the wetland? Yeah… maybe it was your underwear we dug out this morning… stop being astonished. Okay – I’m going to stop being daffy now but although I’m just joking around in the last sentences there is a serious message in it, too. The message is: Protect the environment. When we cleaned up the lake this morning, we wondered why the people throw their garbage just next to them into nature. Maybe it is because there are no garbage cans as far as you can see. So here is our demand to you: Please don’t throw your garbage into the nature, please don’t “forget” your garbage after you have made a pick-nick with your friends in the green. Garbage like cans or bottles are very dangerous for the animals which are living there; they could cut themselves for example. Even textiles – like the underwear we found – can be dangerous because birds – or other animals – can entangle themselves in it. If you want to watch the video from the lake just click on this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t30xpbC5VNA
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Wow! If each of us did not throw his shit around the lake would have been so much cleaner, so it's up to us, to what every single one of us does! keep up the good work guys!
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