Friday, January 13, 2012

Beach Clean-up Sulaibikhat 3, Kuwait, January 13th 2012

Behind the Black mangroves on this stretch of Sulaibikhat beach years of dumped plastic has piled up, one layer on top of each other.
Currently we are cleaning up the top layer. Give the mangroves and plants a bit of breathing room.
It's tedious work since a lot of the styrofoam has broken up into tiny pieces and all we can do is shovel it into bags.

For approx. 10sqm it took 4 hours and we got 24 bags as a result.




(You can also check the single photos in the album)

Birdcount:

30 Black-headed Gull (most likely with some Slender-billed Gulls, Caspian and Heuglin's Gulls)
5 White Wagtail
4 Barn Swallow
5 Water Pipit
20 House Sparrow
25 Greater Flamingo
3 Grey Heron
20 Pallid Swift White-eared Bulbul

Thanks to K's path for organizing the clean-ups every week!


January schedule: Friday 20th - Sulaibikhat beach / Friday 27th - Doha beach
Clean-ups start at 8am
Email: angelique@k's path.org for maps




















Past clean-ups (that I've been to - K's path has been out every weekend):


21 comments:

  1. A horrendous amount of rubbish.
    Some people don't deserve this beautiful planet.

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    1. I'm with you on this one :(
      First time around the girls have been asked why they are cleaning it up, people thought this was a rubbish dump.
      I am wondering how many people on this planet and in Kuwait actually make use of their brain from time to time :(

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  2. such a sad condition. and seemingly never-ending as the pollution doesn't stop.

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    1. Never ending indeed.
      They have just published a report from the Kuwait Dive team about the conditions of the dying Coral reefs.
      Not good.

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  3. Sewer canal? Does that mean raw sewage is dumping into the waters?

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    1. There are water treatment plants here and I don't see the stuff that would be there if it was raw sewer. But it sure is not comparable to what comes out of the water treatment plants in Europe or even the ones in Egypt.
      I am still trying to find the piece to this puzzle.

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  4. I know the wildlife appreciates your efforts.

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  5. Keep up the great work! I'm adding your site to our blogroll over at Words about Birds and to my RSS feed. Your work is inspiring! Thank you!

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    1. Thank you for stopping by and for your encouraging words! :)

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  6. Hi there - this sort of thing can be very depressing - but I think you have to just keep going. When I was a school teacher I would organise (or try to) students to be involved in clean up events. It was like pulling teeth!

    Well done.

    Stewart M - Australia

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    1. K's path involves classes too. Haven't been with one where there was a whole class yet though.
      I think I might stick to the 'normal' ones :-D

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  9. Good for you and that group -- . It is such a great thing to do and so needed. Sadly, it makes you wonder what's wrong with people?...and this is everywhere, I'm not picking on your particular stretch of beach)

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    1. Thanks, Sallie!
      Thing here is, it's not only the beach goers or local trash dumpers.
      It's a lot of trash from the ships too, I think. Especially when they come to port.
      It's just an idea without proof, but from the trash I've seen down here at our nearby beaches and up there it might be the case.
      Locals going there and dumping their stuff doesn't help either of course :/

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  10. I've started taking a bag with me when birding and try to pick up a few pieces of trash while I'm out. If everyone did the same thing everytime it would make a difference.

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    1. It indeed would.
      Here it would already help, if people wouldn't leave their food and trash behind after visiting the beach.

      But this is a culture of going to the beach with your car, sit there, watch nature from inside, leave the car running, eat your food, dump it on the parking lot before you leave - or have a party at the beach and leave your stuff there.

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