Ecoteca and Services of Environment of Flores and Corvo promote subaquatic cleaning
The Flores Ecoteca and the Services of Environment of Flores and Corvo promote on Sunday, between 9 o’clock and 12.30 o’clock, a subaquatic cleaning operation in the Port of Boqueirão, in Santa Cruz das Flores, to move the whole population in the way of avoiding the deposition of residues in the wharf and in the bottom of the sea.
All participants in the initiative will be invited to clean the existent residues in the zone and to find in the bottom of the sea, through apnea and immersion.
The collected residues will be separated and directed to the appropriate destinies.
The interested people in participating in the activity can enrol next to the Flores Ecoteca, of the Services of Environment of Flores and Corvo or then through the services of the Voluntary Firemen of Santa Cruz das Flores.
The initiative still reckons with the support of the Voluntary Firemen of Santa Cruz das Flores, of the Local Command of the Sea Police, of the Flores Youngsters Association, of the Naval Club of Lajes das Flores, of the Mareocidental and of the Ocidental Hotel which will be going to supply the whole immersion equipment.
The activity is associated to the Aware Project (http://www.projectaware.org/english/take_action/international_cleanup_day_locations.aspx), an annual voluntary event that intends to attract attention for the devastating impact that the wastes have in the aquatic environment.