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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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There is no doubt that UK's beaches, or some of them at least are dirty, but
this can be said of many tropical beaches too, not just UK or Goa.
The tens of millions of tons of rubbish that has been spilled into the seas
by ships, barges & crooks who dump the city's garbage from China to Japan, from
Indonesia to Australia / New Zealand, from USA to all areas of Europe, from
Africa & South America, the whole world has used the sea as a dumping ground
for many years.
We are now witnessing the deaths of thousands of sea turtles, sharks and
other marine wildlife who either mistake the floating garbage (plastic bags are
the worse offenders which the turtles mistake for their favourite food,
jellyfish).
Now the sea has churned up plastics of all sorts, all now returning after 25
years or so floating about in the sea, brought in by the currents, to the
seashore.
And we (all nations) still do not clean up after ourselves.
There are dedicated people who VOLUNTEER their time & energies in collecting
these plastic & other rubbish that the tide leaves behind. Long gone are the
odd "coco de mer" or the odd piece of wood from a sunken ship. The days of a
"message in a bottle" have gone too, its all dirt & plastic, stuff that cannot
biodegrade that is hurting the marine life, and of course making it impossible
for clean beaches, even in some of the most expensive and idyllic places on
earth, find plastic yoghurt containers, plastic cutlery & bags on their beaches.
John Monteiro
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George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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Goans are too polite to call the UK a toilet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/855233.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1486664.stm
http://environment.uk.msn.com/photos/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=8025423
Regards,
George
