"Save Mother Earth", "Let's be Clean and Green", "Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle" all these seem cliché for us after all the efforts and projects to help Mother Earth. But for a world that has depleting resources and consuming
too much more than what is produced, we definitely have to live up to
these words. The earth is very rich with different kinds of
resources but these are being disturbed by various reasons most
especially by human activities.
Salt water is the home of
millions of species that make up the balance of our
ecosystem and supplies for the basic needs of human beings- Food. But
today, this very gift is threatened by so many harmful wastes caused by
human negligence. One of the greatest contributors of coastal
pollution is trash. According to Water Encyclopedia, these are items
that are brought to the beach and left there by beachgoers; garbage
deliberately or accidentally discarded by ships at sea or from offshore
oil platforms; and material carried to sea by rivers and estuaries, especially from large coastal cities.Thus, knowing this reality, it is a challenge for us to act upon this wronged situation of our environment.
Last
April 12, 2015, approximately 40 Law Students from the Ateneo de Davao
University Law School, Dumalas 2 Women Association and the Office of
Councilor Acosta joined together for a coastal clean-up. Driven by the
passion to help mother nature from the negative effects of pollution,
these volunteers gathered at Dumalas 2, Matina Aplaya, Davao City around
8am to pick up trashes and clean the coast.
After the coastal clean-up, the office of Councilor Acosta also spearheaded feeding program at the said barangay.
Participants posed for a picture after the Coastal Clean-up. (Photo Credits: Team Acosta)
Funfacts:
Did you know that the Philippine coastline is twice the length of that
of United States? The Philippine coastline reaches up to 17,500 km,
official Philippine figure, while the total length of United States is
12, 248 km.
CIA World Fact book
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